It is commonly thought that President Herbert Hoover is a conservative. He believed in less government participation in the people’s daily life. In his candidate speech, he renounced liberalism because it set bounds to the liberties of the people. He felt a great need to take government out of peoples lives [Doc A]. This is shown with his “hands of

f policy” during the depression. He believed in the business cycle and that the country would pull its self out of the depression. He did not want to use government power in dealing with this. In his message to Congress Hoover stated that the, ”economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.” Hoover believed that all the government can do is encouraged the people to do what is best for their community. The government’s only contribution was giving aid through programs – like waterways, harbor, and flood control – however only for a temporary time [Doc B]. He strongly believed that if the government kept giving money to solve problems, organizations and businesses would cease to help their community thus problems would be solely dependent on the government money [Doc C]. As the depression worsened Hoover did begin to see that the government was needed in helping the economy speed up in the business cycle. In the 1930s, Hoover’s liberal side emerged. He saw that he could not maintain this “hands off” policy and went to help out the people. He first started helping out by merely encouraging voluntary groups in the community to help out the less fortunate. He felt that "government -national, state and local-can join with the community in such programs and do its part." He put people to work in construction and doubled the government expenditure [Doc B]. He supported and signed

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