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In retrospect President Herbert Hoover's attempts to deal with the Depression were relatively innovative and well intended. Some of his ideas, for instance the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, continued to become part of Roosevelt's New Deal program. Hoover was also personally moved by the suffering of people during the Depression. But Hoover's political style was fixed to an older age, one that saw personal expressions of sympathy as irresponsible. "No president," he told an adviser, "must ever admit he has been wrong." By 1932 Hoover's apparent indifference to the plight of the common man and his unwillingness to develop sweeping programs to deal with the emergency made him the target of bitter mockery by the public. They developed a lexicon of "Hooverisms" that convey something of the misery of the period:
* Hoovervilles: shantytowns of scrap, metal and cardboard that sprung up in every major city...
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