Comparing The Political Philosophies Of Hoover And Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The political philosophies of both Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt differ entirely through the approach of how America should be ran socially and economically. In Hoover’s New York Campaign Speech, his political stand point tilts for a republican agenda, supporting the idea of individualism and avoiding the spread of federal government, fearing that it will jeopardize the freedom of the American people. In other words, his philosophy revolves around the people self governing, following the “American system” and viewing individualism as a mechanism to help the economic distress. However, Franklin D. Roosevelt supports a democratic agenda, viewing the expansion of federal government to put America back on it’s feet. FDR does not see

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