Press statement

By: Herbert Hoover

Date: February 3, 1931

Source: Hoover, Herbert. "The Importance of the Preservation of Self-help and of the Responsibility of Individual Generosity as Opposed to Deteriorating Effects of Governmental Appropriations." Press statement. February 3, 1931. Reprinted in Myers, William Starr. The State Papers and Other Public Writings of Herbert Hoover, Volume 2. New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1970, 496–99. Originally published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, New York and Garden City, 1934.

About the Author: Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) was president of the United States from 1929-1933. A civil engineer by training, his international reputation as a humanitarian and administrator resulted in his appointment in 1914 as chief Allied relief administrator during World War I. He became Secretary of Commerce in 1921 and the Republican presidential...