During the Depression, President Hoover initiated a number of major recovery programmes, which however didn’t have the desired effect. The critics were loud and the President confided his disappointments with the former President Coolidge.
“You can’t expect to see calves running in the field,” observed Coolidge, “the day after you put the bulls to the cows.”
“No,” [...]
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Herbert Hoover
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