Herbert Hoover

"The fundamental business of the country, that is, production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis."

Thus declared President Hoover on Oct. 25, 1929. Sound familiar? Four days later, the stock market crashed, depression followed and Hoover became a joke. And yet all of this seemed to have been news to John McCain.

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