Margaret Hoover

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359 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 5 Aug

Margaret Hoover’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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It wasn't that he was unopposed, but like he wasn't unopposed essentially on the Republican side and on the Democratic side.

It was a complete landslide.

And Hoover had been made into this kind of Superman because he had fixed the Mississippi River flood.

He had brought

He had done the Belgian relief.

He had done European food relief.

He had done all these marvelous things.

People just thought, like, of course he should be the president.

He had never been in elective office before.

He was the first president, literally, to ascend to the presidency without ever being elected to public office.

And he said, you know, my friends... Or serving in the military.

Or serving in the military.

Exactly.

My friends have made the American people think of me some sort of Superman.

They expect...

the impossible of me.

And should there arise in the land of conditions in which the political machinery is unable to cope, I will be the one to suffer.

He knew his reputation was too outsized and too big to meet a moment that a political circumstance couldn't meet.

And

the Great Depression, to be very clear, was that moment.

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