Hoover honestly believed that each of the Bonus Marchers--and each victim of
the Great Depression--was responsible for picking himself up by his own
bootstraps. He considered it immoral for government at any level to bail
out any individual. What he did not realize, of course, was that the
Depression was being manipulated by the bankers to their own benefit in the
United States just as much as in Germany...or if he was aware of that
something was going on refused to recognize that it overrode his own Quaker
principles. For all of his international experience and organizational
acumen, Hoover was remarkably naive about some aspects of the world he found
himself in.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kris Millegan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [CTRL] *Bonus March* FDR or Herbert Hoover?
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> > The remnents of the Bonus Marchers (Congress had appropriated money
> >to send the marchers home, but about 2000 out of the peak 17,000
> >refused to leave their tent city) were forced out by cavalry under
> >Douglas MacArthur on 28 July 1932. That makes it Hoover.
>
> Not quite. Congress never budgeted nor approriated the money. They
authorized
> a
> program to give out the money, at some future date. The marchers were so
poor
> they went to Washington in the hope that they could convince the
government to
> give them the money immediately. When no money was forthcoming they had
> nowhere
> else to go. Hoover had no choice, he had opposed the program since there
was
> no
> money for it, then had to take resposibility for congress's ineptness by
> sending in the troops to diperse the crowd.
>
> Frankly if I were hoover I would have personally bought some kerosine and
> matches, given it to the marchers along with the local residential
addresses
> of
> every member of congress who voted for the program. They could then have
gone
> to each member's house and said, "Fulfill your promise or lose your
house."
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