Roosevelt:
He worked with his advisers to produce an enormous range of sweeping
measures.
He closed the banks and re-opened specific ones he selected.
He believed strongly ‘The Active Government’ to improve the lives of
ordinary people.
He had plans to spend public money on getting people back to work. As
governor of New York he had already started doing this in his own state.
He was not afraid to ask for advice on important issues from a wide
range of experts, such as factory owners, union leaders and economists.
He was confident of victory.
He made the reform ‘The Hundred Days’.
He went on a grand train tour of the Usa in the weeks before the
elections and mercilessly attacked the attitude of Hoover and the Republicans.
He always wanted the New Deal to
go further improving living and working conditions too of the people.
Hoover:
He was regarded as a 'Do nothing' president.
He was unable to solve the problems of the depression.
He believed that social security was not the responsability the
government.
He appeared to be heartless and indifferent to the suffering of the
American people.
He accused The Bonuses Marchers of being Communists and criminals.
The Bonuses Marcher's possesions were burned.
He thanked God that the USA still knew how to deal with the
movilisations.
He set up the Reconstruction Finance Company.
He tried to protec US industries by introducing tariffs.
