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A liberal favors modification and generally utilizes government involvement to promote social change. On the other hand, a conservative has a more traditional viewpoint and tends to oppose change. While President Hoover is commonly thought of as a conservative and President Roosevelt a liberal, the disarray and the status of the nation gave them no time to decipher their tendencies. It was through their recourse and reforms that we can now say these things all the while never fully knowing but never forgetting their predicament. In times where everything by which people have based their lives falls and crumbles to the ground. These people had to "…watch the things you have given your life to, broken, and stoop and build them with worn out tools." When something, such as this has changed the times so immensely and brought the nation into a seemingly endless hole the only way to recover is to fill the hole back up or crawl out. While a liberal may promote change, change was the only option in these desperate times. Both Hoover and Roosevelt were preserving the country through alteration. Hoover changed to keep it the same, to keep the tradition, to conserve the nation. Roosevelt changed to make it better, to help the co
Thanks to the Keynesian Economics and Roosevelt's personal belief in a deficit. A plan was devised to spend more money and get it circulating again. As the deficit went up the U.S. slowly pulled themselves from the depths of the depression (Document F). The New Deal entailed three main goals; relief, recovery and reform. The programs under each of the three categories were founded upon the ideals of liberalism. In that they wanted to touch and aid the masses. Roosevelt said, "Out of strains and stresses of these years we have come to see that the true conservative is the man who has a real concern for in justices and inequalities as arise from it. The most serious threat to our institutions comes for those who refuse to face the need for change. Liberalism becomes the protection for the far-sighted conservative" (Document G). Roosevelt believed that "NOW" was the time and acted upon those thoughts. He came a long way and he was going to continue to work as long as problems arose. (Document H). This may be the line that separates Hoover and Roosevelt, Hoover probably would have ceased here although FDR presued farther. The nation had taken a devastating plunge in 1929, the Great Depression had struck, Hoover President at the time. The country was plummet
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