1930's Government and Politics | Campaign Speech at Madison Square Garden, New York City

Speech

By: Herbert Hoover

Date: October 31, 1932

Source: Hoover, Herbert. Campaign Speech at Madison Square Garden, New York City, October 31, 1932. Reprinted in Myers, William Starr. The State Papers and Other Public Writings of Herbert Hoover, Volume 2. Doubleday, Doran & Company, New York and Garden City, 1934; New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1970, 408, 410, 412–423, 428.

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 (1914–1918). He became Secretary of Commerce in 1921 and the Republican presidential candidate in 1928. A man of great integrity, intelligence and compassion, Hoover was, in many ways, paralyzed by the depth of the...