just overlooked by society since they lived in the rural west or the still Jim Crow South. The US economy was basically two different economies and the depression brought to light the issues of the very poor. 3. Herbert Hoover was actually thought to be the "most competent man in America" when he was elected president in 1928 and he had a lot of good and right ideas as to how the economy worked and how to spur the US out of the depression. Unfortunately, he was unable to implement them in time as he wasn't necessarily a great political manipulator and it was not clear the depths of the coming depression. This led Hoover to take the fall for the economic slump. He did try to meet with FDR many times after the election and before the inauguration (there used to be a four month period between election and inauguration) to help stem the falling economy, but FDR blew him off, since FDR would look better if he came into office when the economy was worse. FDR was a master politician. 4. FDR had no grand "New Deal" plan when elected. In fact, his ideas over the first 100 days were at times conflicting and scattershot where he would have people working on two opposite solutions to the same problem, often without either knowing. Through his political savvy he was able to get emergency measures passed and cobble together a number of relief plans to try to help the