Don Wildman

It comes to mind, It's a Wonderful Life, which everybody watches over Christmas and that whole moment when everybody goes storming into his savings and loan and tries to take their thing.

That was not, I mean, while that was a parody, of course, of the situation or an extreme version of it, that did happen, right?

I mean, those people crowded into those rooms and wanted their money.

Let's talk about Herbert Hoover Moore.

I'm interested in your take.

Elected president in 1928.

1928.

He's inaugurated March 4th, 1929.

He's only in the White House for going on eight months when this crash happens.

He is, however, painted with the brush of failure in the face of this crisis.

Why so?

What has been the take that is right or wrong about Herbert Hoover?

We've done a piece on Hoover.

I like the man myself.

I've always enjoyed his story.

And, you know, he's a Quaker.

He's got his heart's in the right place in the things he's trying to do.

Tell me about the Garner-Wagner relief bill.

It was a plan by Congress, which addresses what you're talking about.

Yeah, and would this have been the first time that people in Congress, especially, were considering this on a large scale, the federal government stepping in and funding these programs that normally would have been state-run things, right?