Hoover Administration - Post-presidential Years
Post-presidential Years
Although Hoover was never again close to the reins of power, his post-presidential career was far from anti-climactic. In 1934 he wrote The Challenge to Liberty, in which he attacked Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal as "the most stupendous invasion of the whole spirit of Liberty that the nation has witnessed since the days of colonial America." In 1936 and 1940 he hoped that a deadlocked Republican convention would again nominate him for president, but tensions between him and his party remained.
As World War II (1939–45) approached, Hoover was frequently labeled an "isolationist," though such a designation does not do justice to his position. His preference for peaceful settlement of all disputes derived from his conviction that military action created far more problems than it solved. In 1919 the future president had established the Hoover War Collection, renamed the Hoover War Library in 1922,...
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