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26 Cards in this Set
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At what time was this article written?
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3 months into presidency
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Why will Obama fail?
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He is unable to seize the radical moment at hand
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Who was Hoover raised by?
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uncle
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"As gentle as are the memories of the time, I am not recommending a return to the good old days. Sadness was greater and death came sooner"
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Hoover about his childhood
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Where did Hoover study?
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Stanford
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What was Hoover's favorite book?
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David Copperfield
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How much was Hoover worth by 40?
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85M
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"The ideal of service is a great spiritual force poured out by our people as never before in the history of the world"
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Hoover
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What did Hoover say to somoen asking him why he fed Bolsheviks?
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"Twenty Million people are starving. Whatever the politics they shall be fed"
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What was Mellon's advice regarding the market?
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"liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate"
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Who proposed a national sales tax to balance the budget?
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Cactus Jack Garner
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Who said hoover "shown himself capable of the most pragmatic far reaching economic heterodoxy that would in the end carry him and the country into uncharted economic and political territory"
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Kennedy
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"practically the whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started"
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Tugwell
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Who said Hoover had "given up the ground of high principle and implicitly legitimated the claims of other sectors for federal assistance"
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kennedy
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Who was the RFC president and VP under Coolidge?
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Dawes
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What was Hoover religion of thought?
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Quaker
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Nugget for FDR?
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The great improviser
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What did FDR replace the NRA with?
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Second New Deal
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What is the difference in the opposition faced by each president?
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FDR reaped creative rewards from many republicans, Obama faces road block
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15 Democratic senators broke of to form the moderate democrats led by...
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Bayh
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What are "card check" provisions?
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would facilitate union organization
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Who did Obama leave in office?
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Geithner would was present during the crash
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What is Obama's book?
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The Audacity of Hope
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Who does obama admire the most?
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Bill Clinton
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Who is "instinctively understood the falseness of the choices being presented to eh American people and came up with his Third way"
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Obama thought of Clinton
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Who was called a "traitor to his class"?
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FDR
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