You know, Ano, Captain Edward Smith was generally regarded as the finest commanding officer with the White Star Lines. What history remembers him for is that the Titanic sank beneath him.
General George Custer had a remarkable career during the Civil War but he is remembered for the very bad haircut he got at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
History has made its judgement of Hoover. This appeared in today's Times. Talk about timely.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/opini...ss&emc=rss
But this gang of pricks has no self-respect and no sense of shame.
General George Custer had a remarkable career during the Civil War but he is remembered for the very bad haircut he got at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
History has made its judgement of Hoover. This appeared in today's Times. Talk about timely.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/opini...ss&emc=rss
Quote:Never mind restoring a bust of Winston Churchill to the Oval Office. The spirit that really hovers over this White House is Herbert Hoover’s.
But that’s unfair to Hoover, whose soul can now rest easy that he is no longer the worst Republican president ever. In the grip of the Great Depression, the 31st president was under intense political pressure to sign the Tariff Act of 1930, better known as Smoot-Hawley after its Republican authors in Congress. Hoover himself was a somewhat reluctant protectionist. And while 1,028 economists signed a petition imploring the president not to sign, he could not then know that “Smoot-Hawley” would become a byword for economic folly. Between 1930 and 1933, the value of global trade declined from $4.9 billion to $1.8 billion.
Quote:The darker echoes of the 1930s are sounding louder. The shadow of Hoover grows longer. We know how this movie ends. If Trump’s economic adviser Larry Kudlow had a gram of self-respect he’d resign.
But this gang of pricks has no self-respect and no sense of shame.
