Rugged Individualism Herber Hoover

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Rugged individualism herber hoover.

In 1928 the republican party nominated herbert hoover a world famous mining engineer and secretary of commerce under harding and coolidge for the presidency. In the 1928 presidential election herbert hoover the 31st president of the united states was campaigning against democrat alfred smith as the election came. In public papers of the presidents of the united states washington dc. Study this lesson to find out what rugged individualism encompasses and learn some points of emphasis from this speech.

By david davenport gordon lloyd. It is often associated with social darwinism or an up by the bootstraps philosophy. This speech was delivered in new york city by republican presidential candidate herbert hoover on october 22 1928 toward the close of the election campaign. Anderson has been a senior fellow at the hoover institution since 1998 and is currently the john and jean de nault senior fellow.

Speech by herbert hoover 1928. But in reality the democratic contender al smith was a powerful speaker. Philosophy of rugged individualism. United states government printing office 1974 p.

The 1928 election is not known for its rousing speeches. Presidential speech archive miller center university of virginia http. Definition of rugged individualism. Rugged individualism speech 1928 america emerged from world war i disillusioned that the conflict did not bring about global harmony and rise of democratic governments around the world.

And his republican counterpart herbert hoover gave an impassioned speech now known as the rugged individualism speech as it was one of the major communication events of the 1928 election we will take a close look at this speech. Definition of rugged individualism in the 1928 presidential election herbert hoover the 31st president. Rugged individualism was the phrase used often by herbert hoover during his time as president it refers to the idea that each individual should be able to help themselves out and that the government does not need to involve itself in people s economic lives nor in national economics in general. When herbert hoover first used the expression in 1928 he sought to contrast american rugged individualism with the soft despotism and paternalism of europe which has been closing off its frontiers with a fixed hierarchy and settled order for a few hundred years now.

Hoover s speech on rugged individualism in the closing weeks of the 1928 presidential election was one of the most important he delivered. As a result the united states attempted to revert to isolationism. In this speech which closed his successful presidential. Herbert hoover rugged individualism campaign speech digital history id 1334.

Containing the public messages speeches and statements of the president march 4 to december 31 1929. Also available online from.