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But it's quite often forgotten that after 1930, Hoover started programs which would successfully be expanded by FDR and become the fundament of some of his most successful New Deal programs: Home LoanBank Act, RFC, Emergency Relief and Construction Act...
And some members of FDR's brain trust even said that Hoover's plans were the basis for plenty of New Deal policies. It was just too little, too late for Hoover. And even then he was being attached for budget deficits and whatnot because he was challenging accepted economic theory at that point.
Hoover's foreign policy was a rather good one among US presidents
And, yes, people tend to forget about that. Hoover, being a humanitarian prior to his Presidency, believed a Good Neighbor policy. Something that all future Presidents could learn from.
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