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Herbert Hoover: A Political Failure Throughout American history, men of success, mediocrity, and failure have occupied the nation=s highest office. One man, often characterized as an utter disappointment, is Herbert C. Hoover. Charged with the responsibility for that awful economic crisis, the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover is accused by critics of having tarnished the presidential reputation. Hoover was a political failure. His foreign and domestic policies sparked the fuse for the economic bomb known as the Great Depression. His inability to curb the Great Depression, along with his ungenerous views on federal aid to the needy, has made him one of the most ineffective presidents ever elected. Ironically, Herbert Hoover=s life up until his presidency was pictured as a fairytale success story. Hoover was orphaned at the age of nine, but by persistence later worked his way through college at Stanford University. By the time he was forty Hoover was a self-made millionaire. Unfortunately, this independent self-reliance Hoover so fervently advocated would later play against him during the Great Depression, a time when government help was strongly needed. During World War I, Hoover was entitled the Agreat humanitarian,