Herbert Hoover’s New York City Speech

Document Herbert Hoovers New York City Speech (1928) 1. What type of history is this? (Ex. Newspaper, telegram, map, letter, memorandum, congressional participate) This document must have been excerpt from a record of Hoovers Speech,New York City, in The New Day scat Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928. This speech was published in Palo Alto, CA Stanford University Press, 1928), pp. 149-76. 2. For what audience was the document pen? Herbert Hoover is speaking to the general population of the United States and given in New York. 3.What do you find interesting or important or so this document? The main concept of the speech is the United States has its own erratic social/ government system known as liberalism. That liberalism allows us citizens freedom, equality, and opportunity. 4. Is in that respect a particular phrase or section that you find in particular meaningful or surprising? Quote, If anyone will study the causes of retarded recovery in Europe, he will find much of it du e to the sultry of private initiative on one hand, and overloading of the Government with business on the other. This phrase uses the give voice retarded out of all the other word choices out there. I believe Hoover used retarded to tie to the audience and catch their attention. 5. What does this document tell you about life in this finis at the time it was written? This document provides certain aspects of the culture around 1928. War was justified but feared because it could have the potential to place down Americas system and freedom.