Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover: I am unwilling to admit that co-operation cannot be established between the outgoing and incoming administrations. . . . My proposals to you have been directed to the setting up not of solutions but of the machinery through which the ultimate solution can be expedited. ... I fully recognize that your solution might vary from my own. ... I have no intention of committing the incoming administration. ... I would be glad if you could designate Mr. Owen D. Young, Colonel House or any other man of your party to sit with the principal officers of this administration in an endeavor...
Balked in this telegraphic debate, President Hoover broke it off abruptly by making its texts public at the White House. His comment: ''Governor Roosevelt considers that it is undesirable for him to assent to my suggestions for co-operative action. I will respect his wishes. ... Of course no commitments will be made for the next administration...
This historic interchange between a Republican President and his Democratic successor not only revealed the mental abyss separating the two men but also stirred Washington and Albany to hot political resentment. The Hoover camp felt that Governor Roosevelt was afraid to join forces with the President because he did not want to exhibit publicly his own lack of a debt plan. "I-told-you-so" Republicans chortled about their pre-election predictions that President Hoover's defeat would produce just such a hiatus in economic recovery...
Roosevelt champions, on the other hand, thought that President Hoover, stubborn of opinion, was trying to jockey Governor Roosevelt into line with his own foreign program just as he had jockeyed Congress to support his 1931 debt moratorium. Dark Democratic hints were broadcast to the effect that Wall Street, repudiated in the election, was trying to get an advance grip, through President Hoover, on the next administration's foreign policy. Why, asked Democrats, among themselves, did not President Hoover offer to turn power as well as responsibility over to the President-elect if he was so anxious for cooperation...
Though the breakoff stalemated the debts, President Hoover and Governor Roosevelt still had a link between them in the person of Democrat Norman Hezekiah Davis. U. S. arms delegate and Hoover Man-about-Europe. Arriving in Manhattan on the Manhattan last week Delegate Davis announced: "There's no doubt that the world is in a terrible fix. The nations seem to realize that if they don't want to perish separately they must get together." Speeding to Washington Mr. Davis spent 90 minutes reporting to President Hoover. Said he: "It's a great thing to get, Germany...