"The Weaving of Freedom Is and Always Will Be a Struggle"
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- On May 30, 1930, President Herbert Hoover stepped up to a microphone on Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg to deliver a Memorial Day address carried across national radio networks. He spoke to a world in crisis. A year earlier, a massive stock market crash triggered an economic crisis growing worse by the day. Across the Atlantic Ocean in Germany, Adolph Hitler and his Nazi Party were gaining power through political violence and intimidation. In India, Mahatma Gandhi led a nonviolent protest against British rule, a part of the longer journey to independence for his country. Here's Hoover's address.
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That was quite a speech by President Herbert Hoover. An appropriate message for us today. Thanks for bringing it to us Ron.
Thanks!
This was a great speech! My parents lived through the great depression in abject poverty! They lived in a tenement in the Lower East Side of Manhattan! They used old newspapers for toilet paper and shared a toilet with a hundred other people! They bathed in the sink in the kitchen!
Great choice Ron. Thoughtful words well worth considering still, some 94 years later.
Impressive speech. I wonder who wrote it. Most presidents had the help of speech writers, and still do. Whatever or whoever, it was very good.
I'm don't know if this speech came from Hoover's own hand. I'm unfamiliar with his writing voice, style, and phrasing. 70 years earlier, Lincoln wrote his own speeches. His writing style was gloriously concise and easily understood. It fits his image of the self educated, plain talking, rural roots bumpkin that he unapologetically nurtured to success as a likable politician. I found this Hoover Gettysburg speech wordy and boring, but all men would fail to measure up when compared to Lincoln's own speech at that hallowed place in the middle of civil war. Hoover is a forgotten president, mostly famous for possibly making the Great Depression worse. This might be the only speech I've ever heard from him. He's a ghost. I'd like to hear from a Hoover or presidential scholar to hear when speech writing by committee became popular.
A good speech (no matter who wrote it)..and I wonder how many of our citizens today can understand phrases like, "the allurements of demagogic folly...". Not enough I fear.
My Parents said that during Hoover's administration people had to go out into the wooded areas of Western Maryland and pick Berry's just to have something to eat.
Hello Ron, please don’t take this the wrong way but I have heard a lot of negative comments about Mr Hoover. Looks to me like he was full of word salad that could have put food in hungry stomachs.
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Ed from Lynchburg
Thanks, Ed. No offense taken. Hoover is a polarizing figure, for sure.
Hoover was a Quaker educated to be a Mine Engineer/Geologist. His rise started with a monumental effort in organizing aid to civilian victims of WWI. He later became Secretary of Commerce. Not many people know much more about him than his being President when the Great Depression started. Shorter speeches are better. Honoring Lincoln, a master of compact prose, with such a rambling speech seems odd. I enjoyed the intent more than the content.