Attached is President Herbert Hoover’s account concerning how his administration had addressed the concerns of W.W. I veterans in need of relief during the Great Depression. Hoover’s recollection is not the one taught in the high school history books.
The article was an excerpt from a longer article written twenty years after the event.
Yet, regardless of the numerous missteps made by both Hoover and FDR, the United States remained an enormously wealthy nation…
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