Why is Herbert Hoover remembered?

Answer 1

While the voters in 1932 blamed Hoover and his policies for causing the Great Depression, he had a remarkable career as a public servant and politician. During World War I he helped rescue Americans stranded in Europe (he had made his millions in mining by the time he was 40), and helped supply food and supplies to Belgium. He became the economic adviser to President Wilson at Versailles and organized relief for famine struck Russia during their revolution. He became Secretary of Commerce during the 1920s and was elected President in 1928. His policies during the Depression, especially his use of the military to disperse the war veterans demanding their pensions, caused the public to regard him dis-favorably until years later. In retirement Hoover organized relief work after World War II and served on two commissions on government reorganization before he died at age 90, in 1964.