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Hoover and theGreat Depression,1928-1933
 
 
1. The Election of 1928
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Coolidge could have had the Republican nominationfor a third term but he refused, saying, when asked, “Ido not choose to run.”• The brilliant engineer Herbert Hoover, who servedas Coolidge’s businessman's Sec. of Commerce, wasquickly chosen by the nominating convention.• The Democrats chose the honest and sincere AlfredE. Smith, the forceful and popular governor of New York.
 
 
1. The Election of 1928
• Smith conducted an energetic campaignanddenounced both prohibition and thefavoritismof the Republicans to industrialists.• Hoover straddled the prohibition issue byreferring to prohibition as “the nobleexperiment.”• Again the Republicans won anoverwhelmin
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