Herbert Hoover’s political views

• Security vs FreedomSecurity 72%
  SecurityFreedom

  Ordered the Army to clear the Bonus Army’s camp in Washington in July 1932, where General MacArthur led infantry and cavalry supported by six tanks.

• Nationalism vs InternationalismInternationalism 55%
  NationalismInternationalism

  Proposed the war-debt moratorium of 1931 and, with Secretary of State Stimson, set out the policy of not recognising Japan’s conquest of Manchuria.

• Militarist vs PacifistPacifist 72%
  MilitaristPacifist

  Signed the London Naval Treaty in 1930, ended the occupation of Nicaragua and proposed a one-year halt to Allied war debt payments in 1931.

• Assimilationist vs MulticulturalistAssimilationist 75%
  AssimilationistMulticulturalist

  In 1930 ordered that immigrants must have a job before arriving, and his administration oversaw the deportation and repatriation of Mexicans from 1930 to 1932.

• Collectivize vs PrivatizePrivatize 62%
  CollectivizePrivatize

  Held that local governments and private giving should meet individuals’ needs and vetoed a bill for direct federal lending to individuals, though he signed the Emergency Relief and Construction Act in July 1932.

• Planned vs Laissez-fairePlanned 52%
  PlannedLaissez-faire

  Created the Federal Farm Board in June 1929 and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in January 1932, but relied on voluntary cooperation by business rather than federal direction; the record points both ways.

• Isolationism vs GlobalismIsolationism 88%
  IsolationismGlobalism

  Signed the Smoot–Hawley Tariff in June 1930, which raised duties on over 20,000 imported goods, after more than a thousand economists petitioned him to veto it.

No documented position, so not scored: Federal vs Unitary, Democratic vs Autocratic, Irreligious vs Religious, Progressive vs Traditional, and Acceleration vs Bioconservative.