MOST CORRUPT: Herbert Hoover - Forgotten History

Herbert Hoover was a man of many contradictions, but he was a man of his time, and in some ways ahead of his time. Some of his actions have been praised as extraordinary on a humanitarian level, while other actions caused some to demonize him. Let’s look at his career and examine both arguments. Written and hosted by Colin D. Heaton. Forgotten History is a 10th Legion Pictures Production.
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SOURCES:
Burner, David (1996) [1979]. Herbert Hoover: A Public Life. Easton Press. Knopf Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-394-46134-2.
Fausold, Martin L. (1985). The Presidency of Herbert C. Hoover. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-0259-9.
Ferrell, Robert H. (1998). The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-0892-8.
Best, Gary Dean. The Life of Herbert Hoover: Keeper of the Torch, 1933-1964. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Miller, Dwight M.; Walch, Timothy, eds. (1998), Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Documentary History, Contributions in American History, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, ISBN 978-0-313-30608-2
Hoover, Herbert Clark (2011), Nash, George H. (ed.), Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath, Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, ISBN 978-0-8179-1234-5.
Hoover, Herbert Clark (2013), Nash, George H. (ed.), The Crusade Years, 1933-1955: Herbert Hoover's Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and Its Aftermath, Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, ISBN 978-0-8179-1674-9.

[@AOT_HxH95]

As director of the Food Administration, it was Hoover's personal stamp of approval that allowed my great great grandparents to start their own farm outside of Watertown, South Dakota. My family still has that certificate today, framed and hung on the wall.

[@FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip]

So in other words they had to get the governments blessing to start a business???

[@mrfake675]

​@@FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip when you put it that way 😂

[@DavidTaylor-n1z]

But everyone else starved to death and were forced to live in "Hoovervilles". SRM

[@DavidTaylor-n1z]

​@@FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ipEmperor Herbert Hoover.

[@AOT_HxH95]

@@DavidTaylor-n1z This was long before he was president. This was when Wilson was president.

[@jukkasarilo7573]

Finland is still known in historical circles as a country, which pays its debts. And defends itself.

[@patrickmccarthy7877]

Iceland is the most peaceful country, it has no military.

[@billshun3963]

@@patrickmccarthy7877watch out for Putin, one never knows?????

[@dickjohnson9582]

​@@billshun3963he gonna getcha

[@Despiser25]

Hahahaha. If it wasnt for America you would be speaking German today.

[@partygrove5321]

@@patrickmccarthy7877 And is defended by large countries with good armies

[@joellelinden7079]

To his defense: if your heirloom is a rotten apple, you can't make it a ripe apple. You have to plant a new tree!

[@CHN-fh2sn]

Nope, we have a new winner.

[@allenwatkins4972]

BO!!

[@paulcrawford6206]

Yes Biden! Selling favours to other Countries, Traitor.

[@kryts27]

Correction for your viewers. Hoover worked as a mine manager in the Goldfields-Esperance region in Western Australia, in a ghost town named Gwalia (near a modern town called Leonora). Not in the Great Victoria Desert, which is about 100 milies to the East from Gwalia. Hoover was the overseer of the famous Sons of Gwalia mine (in the 1920s was one of the most profitable gold mines in the world). The ghost town of Gwalia is fairly intact and unchanged from the 1930s, and with a museum is a historic town open to the public.

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

Impossible, name the corruption/crime not invented by the Marxists?

[@robertgr0077]

“Modern day Leningrad”? It’s been back to St Petersburg for over 30 years!

[@robinsonfrancis1498]

Maybe the sources he was referring to was written when it was still Leningrad.

[@alanle1471]

Many positive facts about Hoover were left out. 1) Orphaned at a very early age. 2) Hard road to college through working full time and going to night school to get enough English and Math to get into Stanford. 3) Saved 2 million Belgium people through personal financial involvement and was rewarded with a Belgian Dukedom.

[@DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL]

Hoover also began the Hoover Dam project which brought water to the people who now despise him. He also signed The Buy American Act of 1933, which required that all federal government procurement used American labor and materials so that all of FDR's domestic spending was recycled back into the middle class. Hoover's "Buy American Act" is still in place in somewhat watered down form over 90 years after he signed it into law. True Republicans have always been for trade laws which preserve American middle class manufacturing while simultaneously keeping income taxes as low as possible. Trade tariffs paid for most government expenses up until a typical, garden variety "free trade" and racist Confederate Democrat named Woodrow Wilson signed The Federal "Reserve" and the first permanent income tax into law.

[@None-zc5vg]

The Great Depression was helped on its way by the Banks, who raised interest rates in order to further crash the economy and thereby get their hands on all those 'distressed assets'.

[@johnwright9372]

The Hoover Dam was misnamed because he did not start the project.

[@DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL]

@@johnwright9372 Typical lying, ignorant Dem. It began under Hoover in 1931. He left office in 1933. His last official act was the signing of the Buy American Act, which is still preserving American jobs to this day. "Legislation to authorize the dam was introduced repeatedly by two California Republicans, Representative Phil Swing and Senator Hiram Johnson, but representatives from other parts of the country considered the project as hugely expensive and one that would mostly benefit California." -Wikipedia

[@xbman1]

One more. He donated his presidential salary .

[@akosv96]

The difference between a "Most Corrupt" and "Least Corrupt" video is... Time.

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

Thanks for watching

[@DavidTaylor-n1z]

President Hoover was the very most corrupt and so much so that he should be stricken from the rolls of American presidency in absentia.

[@user-account-not-found]

And the need for clicks for cash.

[@stevecoleman2250]

In Australia he is remembered for his opposition to worker's compensation and wage rises. Not a friend of the worker's.

[@janetcohen9190]

A interesting cursive story about Herbert Hoover. Thank you, Colin & Forgotten History. It's a parallel to an M.O., ''Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians, bureaucrats, financiers, elites, bankers, pharma, MIC, big-agri, big-bus, msm, and kindred.....; creating solutions to problems they created in the first place." - Walter E. Williams

[@brandons9913]

Walter E. Williams was a brilliant man 👏🏼

[@garyspence2128]

Because you agreed with his opinions. But he was trying to ice skate uphill. And was offering his ideas to a nation that didn't want to listen to someone who looked like him. Even if he offered ideas that they happened to agree with. That was his real tragedy.

[@janetcohen9190]

@@garyspence2128 Gary comment is appreciated. Yes, Walter E. Williams was a brilliant man, curious, critical thinker, aware, sought facts, learned from contemporaries, prior generations through to people of classical antiquity and their surviving writings. The reason Walter E. Williams was mostly ignored even ridiculed was for his helping enlighten everyday folks to M.O. thus tip the gravy train, caviear, campaign, lucre, ..cart. Nil to do with his appearence!

[@jimarcher5255]

In my lifetimes I’ve heard many uncomplimentary things about Hover, but never that he was corrupt.

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

We present the information. You decide.

[@roberthenry9319]

how many lifetimes have you had?

[@michaeltorres638]

@@roberthenry9319 He might be a cat.

[@brucesmith6007]

Not corrupt. Biden, harding, clinton, reagan had much corruption

[@csparrot]

😊😊​@@michaeltorres638

[@christiancolossus5165]

Hoover seemed like a man with a lot of common sense that inherited a sinking ship. Sure he made some mistakes but I don't see a man consumed by greed, corruption or evil.

[@mattolivier1835]

He was evil, just like FDR and Wilson.

[@grizzlygrizzle]

Sometimes a naive, ineffectual leader will be taken advantage of and have very corrupt people under them, like Harding and Carter. The former was an ineffectual figurehead, and the latter was a well-meaning but politically ineffective leader. More recently, we've had a dime-a-dozen grifter who is a puppet of some of the most deeply morally corrupt people in history.

[@Joeyjojoshabbadoo]

Really, is that what HH was, full of 'common sense'? If that's what you mean by common sense, sure. What he mainly was, by a less sentimental or patriotic reading, was someone who could rise through the bureaucratic ranks in whatever public/private entities he found himself a part of, by way of a bland but nevertheless effective expedience, all the way up to where he could actually become POTUS. And in a way that is common sense, why would you ever stand for anything decent, if it were to get in the way of your own personal fortunes? The system, so to speak, is what's greedy and corrupt and evil, and it's up to average, homely men like HH to ride the tiger successfully. And that's where the 'common sense' comes in. It's when you ever get any big, noble ideas into your head that your career comes crashing down.

[@kalburgy2114]

@user-zh1th8sz2l. Wow! You are really full of yourself!

[@lynnfisher3037]

Ha ha see Obama Biden

[@melissavancleave8686]

In this economy, I'm thankful to be able to support this channel. Thank you again for the great videos. I'll be watching this one again.

[@donnied9432]

My opinion of H.H. has mellowed in my old age. I think my humble narrator is right about the congressional refutes of Wilson's plan. But , it wouldn't have worked constitutionally anyway. If any of them really knew what communism was, or how bad the resulting U.N. would be, might have turned out differently. He didn't cause the depression, but he did sign Smoot-Hawley.

[@sprsmoke]

It is no coincidence the UN building resembles a tombstone.

[@SethEvans-r2j]

Supremisist the worst kind. White.

[@DavidTaylor-n1z]

Herbert Hoover is directly responsible for 7-9 million American citizens starving to death when he could have prevented it. His "kindness" to Russian starvation was a political/financial move. Hoover is most famous for stating, when he was asked if he was going to take action to prevent American starvation, "ot will make Americans weak" therefore as stated above 7-9 million Americans starved to death. This was remedied by the genius of incoming President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. SRM

[@sprsmoke]

@@DavidTaylor-n1z You really need to document 7-9 million starving to death. FDR fully supported the Soviet killing machine.

[@gio-ko7kf]

@@sprsmokeFDR cared more about american citizens, then he did about the soviets.

[@jamescoe4765]

Herbert's first job out of Stanford's mining engineering school was to work as a mucker along side hard rock Cornish miners in Nevada City. He gained their respect and learned how to mine there before becoming a successful mining engineer. His only mistake as President was not to put limits on Wall Street because he was against government regulations. However, at that time too many people were investing that didn't know what they were doing. People started to learn how to make easy money with war bonds and took out loans to buy stocks and bonds in a reckless manner.

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

Thanks for watching

[@ricardomoriya1213]

There's a very good book about Calvin Coolidge (and roaring twenties) called 'A Puritan in Babylon' by William Allen White. According to White, near the end of his term, Coolidge did not favor Hoover, because he worried that Hoover would ruin his budget legacy by spending money on the Colorado River dam project, among others.

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

Thanks for watching

[@epsilon3821]

Bruh moment

[@DavidTaylor-n1z]

Coolidge wasn't worth a crap either.

[@epsilon3821]

@@DavidTaylor-n1z Source.

[@garyspence2128]

Cooledge was the kind of President who didn't want to actually do anything. He just believed in letting big business run everything, and everything would work itself out. Made Hoover and Reagan look like Socialists. A century ago in real time, but society has moved forward as if three centuries have passed in many ways. That's what was referred to as 'future shock' back in the late 1970's. We're living in the middle of all that. Good luck...

[@gregb6469]

It should also be mentioned that during Hoover's 12 years as Secretary of Commerce and President he gave his entire salary to charity, living on the money he had earned while a businessman, so that when he left office in 1933 his net worth was considerably less than it had been in 1920.

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

Sounds like Trump also

[@billsmith2212]

​@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNELRead The Big Cheat by David Cay Johnston . That is his latest of 6 books about DJT . They probably stole the silver ware before they left - with the Top Secret documents .

[@tmtb80]

Thought Trump's big money loss was because of the pandemic's effect on real-estate, etc.

[@allangibson8494]

@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNELTrump made $200 million off foreign governments while President… Winding up poorer indicates he couldn’t manage money… Jared Kushner got given $2 Billion for making a murder investigation “go away”.

[@JanieGregoryCOOK]

So did Trump.

[@richardcorwin1828]

Once again Colin you've done a incredible job of making history well worth watching. Thank you sir.

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@walterdebnam8021]

Again, thank you for making this history on Herbert Hoover, and his times. My father used to tell me that Hoover was one of the most intelligent men to be President. But, as we all should know, intelligence without Wisdom is a track leading to a wall you can't see over. MARANATHA 🔜💥✝️

[@jammininthepast]

Carter also an engineer, brilliant but poor leader.

[@bscottb8]

Hoover tried to administer the status quo after it was status gone.

[@longstreet2740]

“GIVE me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws.” Mayer Amschel Rothschild

[@scottmaclaren4695]

they are an evil family from an evil species of insect masquerading as human

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

Thanks for watching

[@partygrove5321]

Another Jew hating cretin faps about his all purpose scapegoat

[@partygrove5321]

@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL Thanks for what, some neo notsee nonsense.

[@benjaminguilatcoiv]

In that matter Woodrow Wilson was more corrupt + ignorant by far than Hoover. Wasn't it under Wilson that the Fed Reserve act was snaked thru Congress on a Christmas break..

[@robertnagel337]

As long as LBJ is on the list, no president will ever be considered more corrupt.

[@AnnacolleenEtters]

Biden is neck-in-neck with the man, whom, Republican family members believe to be the most corrupt.

[@Wayne-O-5169]

Until 2016, maybe.

[@stevej4922]

@@Wayne-O-5169 Do you mean 2020? Influence peddling, bribery?

[@9014jayvictor]

@@Wayne-O-5169 yep 45 is the winner

[@josephupton3601]

LBJ was totally corrupt. Trump, while not perfect, didn't try to enrich himself in government. He took NO SALARY. But Trump was an outsider. The entrenched "deep state" hated Trump with a passion and did everything they could to bring him down.

[@-.Steven]

Wow! I'm only half way through and I'm amazed at the amount of information. I always have to smile, a wry smile, when I hear examples of what millions of dollars from any given year long ago (or even not so long ago) are worth today. I'd throughly enjoy a video on that topic! I do believe I can explain it in one simple word though: Inflation. And inflation can be explained in two words: federal reserve. 🙃 Even some of the most innocuous topics give examples of this money phenomenon, such as the wiki page for Lizzy Borden; that casually mentions that the home she grew up in was worth X amount of dollars all those years ago, and would be worth many millions today. That federal reserve will get you every time! 😯

[@SanBrunoBeacon]

Hoover was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Before he became President, he was celebrated as a great humanitarian for his World War 1 famine relief efforts. He went from hero to sub-zero after becoming President. In 1919, he founded the Hoover Institution on the Stanford campus. It started as a library and has grown into a highly regarded think tank. On balance, he lived a meaningful life.

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

Thanks for watching

[@spoonful1018]

The reasons you state why he was a good person are the reasons why he was vilified. There is NO place in government for people with honesty and integrity.

[@Cab520]

Does this remind you of someone? Trump.

[@phunkboxx]

When has Trump ever done anything resembling an humanitarian act? ​@@Cab520

[@jamellfoster6029]

Very much so.

[@johndoerr8853]

I remember a lot of history books maligning Herbert Hoover and doing everything they could to make his presidency look like utter shambles. I also remember a foot note in one that simply said "He was critical of FDR, which led to his positive aspects being eclipsed in later years", which makes me believe he had done more positive than negative, but makes him a victim of false media campaigns and skewed opinions of the time, which is still seen today when big business is concerned. Public school history books all make FDR look like a super hero, when the majority of his plans failed, made the depression last longer, as well as allow mass government overreach everywhere they were applied.

[@Friedbrain11]

Yeah, and the schools certainly don't let kids know how much of a Commie lover FDR was actually.

[@tristenklein5940]

FDR Created the depression he is also one of the most racist and corrupt presidents of the 20th century with Wilson and LBJ right behind him! He was working hand in hand with the Nazi Party forcing socialism onto the American people, destroying Separations of Powers especially with the Supreme Court members of his own party stopped him from packing the court which he had no power to do. He gave us the corrupt CIA based off Stalins KGB, used the IRS to destroy his political opponents especially Andrew Mellon, he refused port of 2 ocean liners filled with 6,000 Jews sending them back to France where they were exterminated in Auschwitz’s gas chambers, worked with the corrupt media specially the NYT and WP to hide Hitler’s war crimes against 13 million Jewish people and Stalins starvation of 60 million Ukrainians. We could go on and on.

[@Dobberjones]

Both of my Grandpas disliked FDR. They considered him a Dictator 🤨

[@brianmoore1164]

Loved your comment. Makes me happy to know that some people still manage to learn the truth of history.

[@tristenklein5940]

@@Dobberjones exactly what he was

[@JosephOlson-ld2td]

"Rising Tide" by John M Barry on the 1927 Mississippi flood, the worst natural disaster in US history

[@danielellis4749]

Hoover was not corrupt. Given his vast wealth he could've retired to any beach of his choosing. But, instead he became a humantarian and saved millions of lives. When the depression hit, any other president would've reacted the same way he did -- yet Hoover was scapegoated for it.

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

Thanks for watching

[@danlowe8684]

Another great vid!! A couple interesting facts: The 1927 Mississippi River flood changed the country in many ways. It wasn't your typical flood in that it covered 27,000 sq-mi in up 30' of flowing water. The river was 80 miles wide in Vicksburg, MS and the flood waters did not recede below flood stage for 226 days. This led to the Flood Control Act of 1928 which directed the Army Corps to install massive flood control measures along the lower Mississippi. But Senators from several western states blocked funding for the bill, insisting on, and gaining the inclusion of funding for the Hoover Dam in order to irrigate and populate the west. Then, at the dam's dedication in 1935, Roosevelt changed the name to Boulder Dam (dam politics!!). Congress reinstated Hoover's name on the dam in 1947. The 1927 flood also led to a huge migration of citizens from south to north - after several previous horrible floods that had occurred in just the past decade, and the number of open factory jobs in the north.

[@patdriver5696]

I like the data your channel provides. Thank you. The long lead- ins are annoying, but the info is much appreciated. Thank you for reminding us that corruption in Govt began a long long time ago.....

[@sharylforster]

An amazing insight into this American who lived and understood and advised such countries as Australia, China, Europe, Caribbean in a time when few men travelled beyond our shores. His overall view must have been extraordinary given his close proximity to these countries. An extraordinary man to be sure. Thank you so much for your research.

[@thomaswolf723]

There is no good evidence in this presentation that Hoover was “corrupt” as that term is normally defined.

[@vissitorsteve]

Agree. Feels like click bait.

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

We lay out the facts and let you decide

[@pigdroppings]

The most corrupt US president is Joe Biden.

[@user-account-not-found]

This shits definitely click bait for dumb asses.

[@johnking2882]

@@thomaswolf723 correct. People are simply jealous of his work, life and contributions

[@garryw.robertsmusicandmore2359]

What he did to the Bonus Army was pretty low down.

[@gregb6469]

And what exactly did Hoover do to the Bonus Army?

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

He did not direct violence, just ordered them cleared out

[@DavidCrott]

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[@colonMicheal9]

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[@DavidCrott]

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[@lawsonj39]

The idiocy of increasing taxes and trying to balance the budget during a depression is still staggering. Thank God the Fed now understands how disastrous such policies are, even if a lot of politicians and voters still don't.

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

Thanks for watching

[@mikenixon2401]

In all of history, this is an example where the latest contemporaries must give wiggle room for those past with whom we may not agree based on today's understanding and standards. Yes, that includes my still negative attitude regarding LBJ. Another fine report, Colin.

[@joelspaulding5964]

Apologies. I can give no quarter to LBJ. Was he effective? In some cases- very. Did he cause more harm than good? Unquestionably, looking through the lens of any era.

[@parrotraiser6541]

Hoover's policies of freezing prices and wages was a disastrous prevention of the economy's correction. The Smoot-Hawley tarrifs were another disaster.

[@AbnEngrDan]

The Treaty of Versailles is the root cause of most of the events through the 1950s. The strain it put on economies around the world ushered in most everything that happened. The more I study Hoover, the more I believe he did what he could. Congress could have helped more. But the die was cast...

[@brownj2]

All of Europe was unstable from the beginning of WW1, before that treaty. However I think you are right about it being a point of inflection. All of WW2 could have been avoided had it been crafted differently. That is pretty horrific.

[@Sniper_Cat_71]

Have you ever done a deep dive on General Ludendorff? He gave the world Hitler, Lenin, communism, etc. It's fascinating to me. The world has largely forgotten Ludendorff, but he was in a large way responsible for so much before he shuffled off of this mortal coil.

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

Erich Ludendorff is possible

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

Stab in the back wasn't due to treaty of Versailles

[@Melons-vg8dq]

Maybe Germany shouldn't start wars.

[@MichaelFox-p9l]

Thanks for making all the excellent history lesson videos for us.

[@pauldrexel1501]

Really enjoyed this. A much more complex man than I thought

[@ElieZ]

Thank you for this very informative video and all your content. Seems like Hoover was indeed a humanitarian, trying to navigate the complexities of world economic and politics. He seemed indeed ahead of his time.

[@AlwaysHopeful87]

Leadership is tough. Here are few suggestions for any politician. For national policy, will this help families? For international policy, does the country we are in relationship with promote unalienable rights? For both, what are the opportunity costs? All answers are on a spectrum, but this is a good place to start.

[@katereznikov8792]

First, I want to thank you for this and all videos you created. The conversation in comments are also extremely interesting. The importance of knowing our history and historical figures are indisputable. Second, I like the idea that you let us decide for ourselves what was good and wat was bad Also you show Presidents as real people without ideolisong or condemning them What striked me here was that this President was working so hard to help our beloved country. I guess, Clinton was the 1st one who changed this tradition. I very much respect President Hoover. He was a great person himself and many of his accomplishments helped our country

[@1crazypj]

As presented, it doesn't seem Hoover was any more corrupt than any politician alive today. He does seem like an incredibly intelligent man who made decisions that made him rich but also often improved the lives of mistreated workers or starving people, ( possibly because a workforce was needed to produce goods or services, you can't have a gold mine without miners?)

[@chrisloomis1489]

I learned so much MORE than the shallow History classes in High School and College. Thanks Clayton .

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

Glad you enjoyed it, but I do not know a Clayton

[@nycsguy]

Despite the click bait title, this was a good and very interesting video.

[@tomzeman5964]

Hoover, one of the BEST President's we had shamefully misrepresented as corrupt. Marxist Darwinism is a communist threat, now abandoned by Russia.

[@Satchmoeddie]

I have an autographed copy of a mining book written by Herbert Clark Hoover. I assume it was one of many books signed in mass and then handed out at a seminar on mining, which was a rather common practice at that time.

[@pcno2832]

14:21 "asking them to avoid wage cuts" ... This, to whatever extent it worked, was only going to prolong the depression. During WWI, both wages and prices had gone up a lot, and remained high throughout the 1920s. The fact that a number of countries had gone off the gold standard during the war made this situation tolerable for a while, but when they tried to go back on the gold standard under the Genoa agreement, that put pressure on the Dollar and forced the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates high to protect it. Under the gold standard, the only way out of such a squeeze is for wages and prices to fall, but anything that delays that process will just draw out the length of the depression.

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

Thanks for watching

[@Pwj579]

I don’t see him as corrupt and I don’t think your video really made the point very well

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

We leave it up to the viewer.

[@vollandt]

I agree. If anything the video makes more of a case for the opposite.

[@DRFelGood]

Wining and learning both of which are still being overlooked bc we are still sending support and financial assistance to countries that will hate America once we stop aid to these countries. Good content Colin ❤️🇺🇸

[@Texas-Chris]

Thank you so much for the hard work. Dr. Heaton, you and your team are continuing to make great content and y’all are sharing information that is new to me. God Bless

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

Much appreciated!

[@markr9113]

Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.

[@dcasper8514]

Name that tune..

[@efstratiosfilis2290]

It seems he was very humane & he also did not want the USA to exploit Latin America. What a great president.

[@tobingallawa3322]

Woodrow Wilson, every time I think about him, it makes me sad and angry

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

See our video on him

[@tobingallawa3322]

@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNELwhy do you think I feel that way? You are my history teacher, take care of yourself

[@williamthompson5504]

Excellent video. He was a better leader than I knew. Thanks for the history lessons I believe to be fair and balanced.

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@shanenolan5625]

Thanks Colin

[@rosesprog1722]

If presidents were judged by what they accomplish after their presidential mandates, during which the important decisions are likely made by unseen powerful forces beyond the realm of the political class, once they are free to dedicate their lives on matters of their own choice, using the presidency to put more emphasis than otherwise possible on the causes they chose to promote, I'd say Hoover and Carter would come out far ahead. Sadly, both men were eaten alive and kicked out rather unceremoniously from the presidency, probably for their lack of political savvy and their incorruptibility but through their subsequent work, they proved that they intended to use the presidency to work for and improve the lives of their fellow human brothers and sisters, a project not shared by many White Housers. In the end, no wonder they were kicked out, peace, humanitarian causes and disarmament are the worst investment one could make... Therefore, both earned my admiration and this time, I truly enjoyed your respectful and well researched presentation. Thank you.

[@keithammleter3824]

Heaton stated that France intended to pay off its war loans using reparations it received from Germany, but the US found that unacceptable. That on it's own doesn't make sense. Money is money. It was all US dollars anyway. France had borrowed from the US, and Germany had borrowed from the US to finance its reparation payments. What does it matter what you call it?

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

That was the US Govt's call. Hoover himself apparently felt that France relying upon German payments to pay their debt was incongruous, as France was spending a lot of money on its overseas colonies.

[@DavidTaylor-n1z]

France starved many Germans to death in it's greed for reparations.

[@elmersbalm5219]

Implied that the US government wouldn't accept French excuses for non-payment if Germany defaulted or delayed payments to France.

[@keithammleter3824]

@@elmersbalm5219 That's fair enough, but quite different to not accepting where the money generally came from.

[@keithstudly6071]

@@keithammleter3824 The big problem was that Germany was not making their payments and the French were not going to make payments to the USA if the USA was not going to pressure Germany to make their reparation payments to France. The USA was never in favor of the Versailles Treaty and it's reparations and made a separate peace with Germany. Something that most histories miss is that Germany NEVER paid the Versailles reparations despite those payments being sited as the cause of Germany's post war economic problems. Also it was not "all US dollars anyway." It was gold which all governments paid each other with.

[@Dan-O937]

Excellent video sir. Thanks! At the end of the day when history puts a microscope on a person's actions there will always be good and bad but as you said it needs to be taken into context with that person's time and place.

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

Well said!

[@indianajones4321]

Overall the Bonus Army incident alone puts Hoover’s reputation in the crapper for me. Although he didn’t cause the Great Depression and was a great humanitarian in WW1 and had the first Native American Vice President (something that certain people with political bias and ideas about the US in the interwar period and Republican Party as a whole tend to overlook). But he signed the Smoot-Hawley act and was naive regarding both international affairs and disarmaments. It’s primarily the Bonus Army debacle that makes me very hostile towards him.

[@MeaThreattoDemocracy]

MacArthur disobeyed orders and should have been canned for how he executed the dispersing of the veteran camps. Congress (senate) refused to approve the early payments to the veterans while I'm sure they were making lots of money with inside trading. Do you burn down the country over a single issue? Abortion did that in 2020 and look what we got.

[@DavidTaylor-n1z]

I'm a Republican and Herbert Hoover makes me hopping mad. He was a complete Devil. SRM

[@crusader2112]

Love your videos. Can you do a video on Huey Long and Andrew Jackson? Keep up the great work. 👍

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

Both in the works.

[@crusader2112]

@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL Thank you. Looking forward to it.

[@danielcurtis1434]

Strange I can’t remember any history class talking about excessive speculation??? It was all talk about too much credit.

[@John3.36]

Had no idea how accomplished this guy was. You have to consider that he did a lot of these things before many modern technologies, think tanks, or massive bureaucracies existed.

[@lgbfjb6450]

More corrupt than 10% for the big guy? Hard to believe.

[@Trump2024asw]

When I was a communist I hated hover. I grew out of the ideology awhile ago although only recently gave hover a second look. Im glad I did dude did some good although he was still a man of the time and place he found himself in.

[@jamesdean1143]

He was certainly well travelled - especially so for that time.

[@claydobbins9342]

This narrator is the only person I have heard that pronounce William Edward Burghardt DuBois' surname correctly.

[@nighthiker8872]

Thank for giving a bigger view of Hoover, many don't.

[@rogerbossart6227]

And then came the "Dust Bowl Years" to top it off.

[@Foxboogie]

A great humanitarian. Great organizer. Efficient. History has not been so kind to his reputation as do nothing president or out of touch rich man. I hate that FDR often gets credited for Hoover ideas or policies. Compared to FDR, Hoover does not inspire or give hope. Thank you for the video

[@DavidTaylor-n1z]

FDR was/is the Greatest Of All Time. GOAT! SRM

[@tallyforeman3145]

Great video, Mr. Colin! Thanks!

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

Glad you liked it!

[@christopherl4249]

A fair and interesting Bio of a mostly maligned president whose humanitarian efforts are typically not known. I knew about them, however, Hoovers setting back the black vote for Republicans was something I did not know. I would say this was quite costly for the Republicans and for blacks (if you give a fair assessment of the democrats who still treat blacks as inferior except in a different way). I would like to add that Hoover said of the New Deal that FDR will create a huge government bureaucracy that would never be dismantled (FDR had claimed many of his programs were supposed to be temporary - they were not).

[@DavidTaylor-n1z]

Hoover's "humanitarian" efforts are non-existent in regard to America. SRM

[@DavidTaylor-n1z]

Still ot is a good thing FDR did start this "temporary" buracracy so that we now have these helps in place for today as they are so badly needed. SRM

[@Superluckyhappytime]

Hoover was a decent man who got burned by the actions of Coolidge. It didn’t help that he was ardently anti Keynsian economics.

[@elmersbalm5219]

His federal programmes were Keynesian. I always dismiss what a politician says and focus on what s/he does. Unfortunately in politics you have to pay lip service to the powerful constituencies that buttress your office. This is problematic as intent becomes evident only after the fact. Hindsight is useless to make informed choices as it comes too late.

[@kosjeyr]

Good morning and thank you for the information.

[@jamesgpevans9421]

Hoover seemed to have more successes than faults, great video thank you learnt quite a lot 👌👌👌👏👏👏

[@josellers1376]

He did some good stuff, but he seemed like a real jackass alot of the time. But I am grateful for the good he did, and recognize his good deeds. God bless everyone, stay safe. Viva Cristo Rey and Ave Maria!

[@solanaceae2069]

Well researched and presented.

[@Jetchisel]

6.40 If Germany did not start WW1 who did ??

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

Austria-Hungary

[@rosesprog1722]

@@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL Yyyyyes, but technically, Austria only started a war with Serbia, it is the countries that brought in their colonies that made it a world conflict, Russia, Britain and France, Britain even passing through the Belgian Congo to seize a German colony, violating Belgian neutrality before Germany allegedly did, but in fact didn't, British warm overcoats were found hidden in Belgium, for later use, in case of a war. If Russia had agreed to let Austria take her little revenge in peace, as Wilhelm proposed Nicolas, this would have remained local, a three weeks affair at most but Russia had been taken over by Sasonov, as Germany had been taken over by Moltke, France by Pointcarré, Serbia by Dimitrijevic and Britain by Sir Grey, the liar in chief. These people, the Lord Milner clique, as I love calling them, had been lighting up small fires everywhere for a long time, 1897 as far as I know, and when the pieces were all set, they gave old guns to a few teenagers without talent whose success surprised everyone, themselves included as did the cyanide, surprisingly ineffective. The conspirators all knew Austria would have to react in some way, it was a royal assassination after all, who could tolerate that, if only for the image, and they were going to use that, Russia for control in the Balkans, France for Alsace-Lorraine and Britain to secure international coal and steel markets. Oh, and Wall Street to make a bundle. Germany did ask Britain and France if there was a war with Russia, what they would do, they both said: Ammmm, we don't know, we'll see, whatever is advantageous, we want to keep our hands free, we might stay out of it, you can do it! The noose was in place, the future was set, Germany's commercial and industrial might would be crushed, and her hopes of empire on par with the others, no more, became a nightmare that would haunt every single German, unborn included, for a hundred years, and counting. All these unnecessary words to say that if we include the planning and setting up stages, the war began long before Austria invaded Serbia.

[@keithstudly6071]

Austria attacked the Slav in retaliation for the killing of the Austrian Arch Duke. Russia attacked Austria because they had treaty with the Slavs. Germany attacked Russia because they had a treaty with Austria and France attacked Germany because they had a treaty with Russia. England came in because they didn't like the German navy, which they saw as a threat as well as treaties to protect the 'low countries' (Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg) that Germany had gone through to attack France. England made a good deal with the King of Italy to get them to fight Austria. After a few months the German foreign minister was heard to say, 'having Austria as an ally is like being chained to a dead body!'. The French wanted to get even for the 1870 war with Prussia. The Russians were at odds with the Germans about control of Poland and the Germans saw winning as their only acceptable way to end this.

[@rosesprog1722]

@@keithstudly6071 Except that in the two Balkan wars of 1912 and 1913, Russia didn't defend anyone, the Austrians were justified thinking they would not get involved this time as well. The French had started the 1870 war against Prussia, they had no reason whatsoever to want to get even, they started it, they lost it, too bad. And England had a secret treaty with France but the people would never agree to fight with France, their mortal enemy for hundreds of years, so the government used Belgium neutrality, lied about German atrocities and once it was too late to turn back, Sir Edward Grey admitted that there was such a treaty with France. Half the cabinet almost resigned, they were seriously angry not having been told about France but the people got along, they had a new enemy, didn't need the old one and the defense of Belgium was quickly forgotten, fortunately for Sir Edward Grey, he had also lied about the obligation to defend Belgium, there was no such obligation and no Belgian neutrality, they had already signed secret treaties with the allies before the war even began. WW1 was the first to be won using lies and propaganda rather than bullets and bayonets.

[@petermulholland3299]

@@keithstudly6071 Russia mobilized their army along Austria Hungary and German borders first in reaction to Austria-Hungary and Serbia conflict. Germany asked Russia to demobilize since Russia had mobilized on Germany's border. When Russia refused Germany mobilized its army - WW1 started.

[@trj1442]

What an incredible life. I never knew of his connections to Australian mining with the sons of gwalia and broken hill. If his heirs still hold his shareholdings in those ventures I'm sure they're doing just fine. Much love of your content from Australia. Thankyou.

[@trexx32]

Another great video..now do Prescott Bush and the Bankers plot

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

That has been discussed, possibly.

[@scotthabshi843]

What happened to No Taxation Without Representation?

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

Well we have representatives

[@huntera123]

Can't wait for the update to "most corrupt"...

[@peggyh4805]

Trump? 🇺🇸💙

[@張洪鈞]

Thank you for making the film about Hoover. The domestic policy problems of Hoover and the problems talked in "Hillbilly Elegy" are about education policy, industry policy, and monetary policy. Although Mr. Hoover is a Republican, he is one of the U.S. presidents who lead people to believe atheism, because the Ivy League has promoted atheism a long time ago, he also believes democracy and science, and forgets that democracy is socialism. Humanism is atheism, just like people who want food and miracles only.Although he opposes socialism, he cannot stop socialism and planned economic policies. So people who believe atheism opposes him and continue to vote for people who promote democracy and progress. But, "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

Thanks for watching

[@JDHindery]

“Freedom Betrayed” is an extraordinary book with “receipts” on the war mongers in the FDR administration and condemnation of FDR as pro-communist. As stated at the end of the video, he was responsible for saving millions of lives rather than seeking dragons to destroy in foreign wars.

[@Orpilorp]

What a tangled mess. It seems that he really cared about the needs of innocent people. But the Tuskegee institute was not a good thing. A president never acts alone, which is good, so some things blamed on him could be from listening to the wrong advisors. I agree that the gold confiscation was criminal. Thanks for another fine episode.

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

See our FDR part 2 video for that one

[@BoffinGrusky]

Great history lesson...but why the "MOST CORRUPT" titling?

[@speedysteve9121]

Click bait.

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

We allow people to decide.

[@allencollins6031]

Thanks for history lesson. Good stuff.

[@theodorossarafis7370]

a great video about an unknown US president. great job. Hoover is very weird case and full of contradictions but formed a great part of the US inner and outer politics.

[@timthunell2685]

Hoover's Presidential Museum in Iowa is one of my favorites. Highly recommend! Good presentation, thank you.

[@BillMorganChannel]

My mother was named "Eleanor" after Mrs. Roosevelt, and one of her brothers was named "Franklin" after the President. Don't forget though, FDR did not get us out of the Depression, massive spending and debt incurred by World War 2 did ... and our kids will pay for it.

[@TERRY-cb2ku]

Until people became "civilized" it was pretty much understood that only the strong would survive. We are not so far removed from that philosophy if we get another four years of the current administration.

[@stealthbomber2127]

Hoover was not in slick willie's, wilson's, obomination's, nixon's, and lbj's, and buydem's league. There are plenty of others too.

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

Thanks for watching

[@ooyginyardel4835]

Saved more lives than ANY MAN IN HISTORY by doing the Russian wheat deal.

[@johnrobinson5156]

Hoover got a bad rap. He was a good man at heart. Sometimes we mess up

[@DavidTaylor-n1z]

Herbert Hoover didn't make a mistake he made a choice that starved millions of Americans to death. SRM

[@williambowman2326]

Trying to judge a President is a challenge at best and difficult mostly. Decisions made that were positive for the times can reverse over time and vice versa. The times of a President can not be fully understood by those not living through them so here goes…. Harry Truman thought Hoover did much to help the country and appointed Hoover to study how to make the Federal Government work better and more efficiently. Having a symbol to lmake a villain worked well for the Democratic Party for over 40 years just like the Republicans did by wrapping themselves with Lincoln for decades. Hoover was the wrong man at the wrong time. How different would the world have been if he had been Harding’s VP? But that’s not what happened and FDR won in 1932 and Hoover became the fate of a losing General.

[@alanle1471]

No other American President was as respected worldwide as Herbert Hoover. Economist John Maynard Keynes was a great admirer. He was loved by the Belgians, Finnish. Admired by the British and… even Russians.

[@juangalton999]

I wouldn't trust Keynes' opinion on anything. His economic policies almost caused another depression in the 50s and 60s. And it certainly didn't help during the Carter administration.

[@randybounds2244]

And I just thought I knew about Hoover . Thank you Colin.

[@GeorgeSemel]

It's Saint Petersburg, not Leningrad. As for Hoover and the Famine Relief, PBS had a documentary about that. I saw it on KZbin some years ago. What got me about that whole thing was that Russians living today say that the only reason that they are alive is because of Hoover and the Americans feeding their grandparents.

[@joelspaulding5964]

It was Leningrad until 1991 and was Leningrad at the time.

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

It was Petrograd at that time Hoover was investing

[@Leonard-td5rn]

Depressions always went away quickly before Hoover had every reason this one was short lived

[@angloaust1575]

Only perfect man was Jesus Human failings in all Gods creatures!

[@FORGOTTENHISTORYCHANNEL]

Thanks for watching

[@Foul_Quince]

"Most corrupt, Herbert? Hold my Beer" - Joe Biden, 2020.

[@patrickmccarthy7877]

I thought Hoover was a good guy, a humanitarian.

[@johnking2882]

@@patrickmccarthy7877 he was