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Today, Herbert Hoover is remembered much like Jimmy Carter: a great humanitarian but an awful President. That wasn't always so. After his heroics in WWI Hoover was widely admired, and as Secretary of Commerce he was responsible for the good things that happened under the otherwise mediocre Harding and Coolidge (bringing the economy out of recession and the flood relief effort). While a conservative, Hoover was forward thinking in many areas like child labor, buying stocks on margin (both of which he opposed), and working with the "efficiency movement" to end poverty. In OTL Hoover ran for President in 1920, but he was knocked out of the primaries when he lost his home state to Senator Johnson. If Hoover won instead and remained a viable candidate, it's very possible that the deadlocked GOP convention could have nominated him as a dark horse instead of Harding. Supposing that Hoover wins and serves two terms, would he be a successful President and what would result from his administration?
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