Who is Herbert Hoover from Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940 and what is their importance?

Herbert Hoover was the President of the United States when the Great Depression began. He was basically doomed in the 1932 presidential elections no matter what he and the Republicans did. Hoover himself projected a defeatist attitude. Hoover could not overcome the economic problems of the Great Depression and could not convince the people that he cared about their suffering.