Herbert Hoover And The New Freedom
The New Freedom is a policy set by the 28th president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson. It promoted tariff revisions, reforms in currency and banking, and antitrust modifications. This somehow opposed New Nationalism, which was the idea of former President Roosevelt, especially in terms of the antitrust modification. |
Wilson believed that if America would not have the opportunity to gain free enterprise, then the nation has no right to luxuriate in any other kind of freedom whatsoever. He firmly believed in the idea of small companies competing rather than seeing huge companies in dominance of the economy.
When World War I broke out in August of 1914, more serious issues emerged for the President to tackle and so the reform slowly withered. The whole country’s attention was shifted into military matters and when the US joined the war in April of 1917, he assigned Hoover to be the head of the US Food Administration.
It was Herbert Hoover who believed that “food will win the war.” A particular schedule was followed every week so as to help people avoid some specific food so that more ration could be saved to give to the soldiers in war.
A lot of publicists claimed that this was just Hoover’s way of creating publicity in spite of his orders of never to mention his name. Even after the war Hoover continued this order of food shipment to millions of others starving in Central Europe. Hoover’s position on the economy was greatly based on the spirit of volunteerism.
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