Not much happening in the news so what better time to ask a question and learn some history?
Did any president ever meet with Hitler?
Remember Herbert Hoover?
Do not hurt yourself….he was president when the Great Depression began and it lost him an election to FDR.
And yes he was pissed that he lost….so pissed that he ran off to Europe and met with Adolf Hitler (remember him?)….
Herbert Hoover remains one of the better-known presidents of the United States, though not for the reasons a head of state would wish. Fairly or unfairly, the voting public held him responsible for the Great Depression, a stigma that remains attached to his name — even after decades of historical research has put the economic downturn and his efforts to fight it into context. Those relief efforts were stymied, in part, by Hoover’s own ideological inflexibility and his poor political skills. His shortcomings as leader in an economic crisis were compounded by his bitterness in defeat. Incensed that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would not heed his advice on the Depression during the transition, Hoover called his successor a “madman” (via The Washington Post) and his New Deal policies “fascistic” (per the UVA Miller Center).
Hoover’s hostility to the Roosevelt administration made little difference during the election of 1936, and his unpopularity made even many Republicans keep him at a distance. But Hoover had other ways to pass his time in private life, ways that did not feed hard feelings over his reputation. Before becoming president, he had worked strenuously on post-World War I European relief, and many European nations honored him during the 1930s. Overseas travel filled his schedule in those years.
One such trip, in 1938, brought Hoover to Germany and put him face-to-face with Adolf Hitler. It was the only time in his life that Hitler met a U.S. president, sitting or retired. It was an enlightening visit for Hoover — and an occasion for sensational, overblown headlines back in America.
Read More: https://www.grunge.com/1517519/what-hitler-meeting-former-president-hoover-was-really-like/
That’s right a former American president joined other Americans like Lindbergh and Ford to saddle up to Hitler before the whole Poland thing.
Hoover remained in opposition to involvement in another European war….but that was before Pearl Harbor.
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