American Decades
"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
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...
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1930's Government and Politics Primary Sources
- "The Importance of the Preservation of Self-help and of the Responsibility of Individual Generosity as Opposed to Deteriorating Effects of Governmental Appropriations"
- The Proceedings and Transactions of a Conference of the Mayors of the State of Michigan
- Press Statements and Related Correspondence on the Use of Troops to Control the So-called Bonus Marchers
- Campaign Speech at Madison Square Garden, New York City
- "On the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program"
- Letter to Major General Stuart Heintzelman
- "American Fascism in Embryo"
- "Carry Out the Command of the Lord"
- Harry Hopkins Press Conference, February 16, 1934
- "Federal Emergency Relief"
- Old Age Revolving Pensions
- "On Social Security"
- "What's the Matter with Congress?"
- "I Have Seen War.…I Hate War"
- "Hemingway Reports Spain"
- The Debate over Isolation
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
