While running for president he got the nickname the “Great Engineer” and was running for the …show more content…
So Herbert's plan to solve this was to make jobs and keep money in the people's pockets.This resulted in many public work projects that made new jobs. This all temporarily worked and Hoover said the the depression would be over within a month. None of this became true. The economy worsened and more people lost jobs. Even banks started to close and people blamed Hoover for it naming signs of homelessness after him, like empty pockets were called hoover flags and homeless villages were called Hoovervilles.
President Herbert Hoover worked very hard as president but once the Stock Market crashed he soon became hated by a majority of people. Though it was not all his fault it ruined his reputation. From humble beginnings to a hated man in the American culture. But this could have happened to any president, taking full blame for something you had little to do