Moncada asked the US for assistance in stabilizing the country throughout his presidency. The 1929 Stock Market Crash increased President Herbert Hoover’s “desire to remove the remaining US troops from Nicaragua”. Despite President Hoover's reluctance to intervene in Nicaragua, Moncada succeeded in requesting that “the United States supervise Nicaragua’s 1930 non-presidential elections” and securing enough money from President Hoover in 1932 to “chair half the election boards”, thus ensuring that Juan Sacasa, another Liberal politician, would win the 1932 election.