The Vaccum Guy? The Rehabilitation of Herbert Hoover
"The vacuum guy?" That's how Kevin McCallister responds in Home Alone 2 when told that President Herbert Hoover once stayed in his Plaza Hotel suite. It's a funny movie moment—but it's also a tragedy. How did one of America's greatest humanitarian heroes become so forgotten that people confused him with a vacuum cleaner brand?
In this episode, we dismantle one of history's greatest myths: that Herbert Hoover was a do-nothing president who let America suffer through the Great Depression. The truth? Hoover pioneered the activist presidency, launched the most aggressive peacetime government…
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