He warned Americans that if the "New Deal" came to power, ?the grass will grow in the streets of a hundred cities, a thousand towns; the weeds will overrun the fields of millions of farms?.&
Charles Curtis
Calvin Coolidge
Alfred E. Smith
Herbert Hoover
Alfred M. Landon
Herbert Hoover.
In the 1932 presidential campaign, President Herbert Hoover warned Americans that if the "New Deal? proposed by Democrat Franklin Roosevelt came to power, ?the grass will grow in the streets of a hundred cities, a thousand towns; the weeds will overrun the fields of millions of farms?.? Roosevelt won the election and quickly implemented his ?New Deal? policies to bring America out of the Great Depression.
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