Wilson was a pig, with vision. So?
to hear some left wingers talk about him, Wilson was the next best thing to FDR. His social views being overlooked as usual. Another case of left wingers wearing more than one face.
We have people who think Reagan was a God and Hoover was a great president. Let's mush on.
Same with FDR in speaking of RR. Neither was a 'God'. If one bothers to look at Hoover's record outside of the his 4 years in the White House you will find a record of accomplishment that few exceed. ,
To people without jobs and unable to feed their hungry families, that mattered very little.
'Hoover expanded
civil service coverage of Federal positions, canceled private oil leases on government lands, and by instructing the
Justice Department and the
Internal Revenue Service to pursue gangsters for tax evasion, he enabled the prosecution of mobster
Al Capone. He appointed a commission that set aside 3,000,000 acres (12,000 km²) of
national parks and 2,300,000 acres of national forests; advocated tax reduction for low-income Americans (not enacted); closed certain tax loopholes for the wealthy; doubled the number of veterans' hospital facilities; negotiated a treaty on
St. Lawrence Seaway (which failed in the
U.S. Senate); wrote a Children's Charter that advocated protection of every child regardless of race or gender; created an antitrust division in the
Justice Department; required air mail carriers to adopt stricter safety measures and improve service; proposed federal loans for
urban slum clearances (not enacted); organized the
Federal Bureau of Prisons; reorganized the
Bureau of Indian Affairs; instituted prison reform; proposed a federal
Department of Education (not enacted); advocated $50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 (not enacted); chaired
White House conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership; began construction of the
Boulder Dam (later renamed Hoover Dam); and signed the
Norris–La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labor'
You speak of the hungry families? Fine, Hoover after WWI kept a good portion of Europe from starving. The above are some things Hoover did and FDR copied later.