Roosevelt and Hoover
... Hervert Hoover led the country as pre= sident for the first four years of the Great Depression. Roosevelt succeed= ed him in the presidential office, and was in power for the remainder of th= e Depression. Hoover and Roosevelt each took a different approach to gover= ning. Hoover made little change in his term and Roosevelt initiated great = reform. Therefore, the popular characterizations of Hoover as a conservati= ve and Roosevelt as a liberal are valid. ... Herbert Hoover, a republican, att= empted to do exactly this. During the first years of his presidency, which= began in 1929, Hoover did virtually nothing. ... Roosevelt wa= s a true liberal. ... Hoover and Roosevelt were two very different presidents. Hoover a= cted little, and Roosevelt issued almost constant change. Hoover believed = the depression wasnt in the hands of the government, and Roosevelt saw the= government was the countrys only way out.