So he changed it to read ...
Quotes are interchangeable, as is the truth.
Did he have the minimal humility to acknowledge his anachronistic error? Or did he just edit it silently?
He also implied that Hoover did nothing to try to bring the Depression to and end, but only FDR "did something". Reality is quite different, however. Hoover engineered huge government intervention; FDR's campaign was that Hoover didn't do
ENOUGH. Unemployment in the Great Depression stayed high until 1938-39 - when the twin realities of Hitler and Tojo hit the fan in DC - in the middle of FDR's
second term. It was certainly an unintended and unanticipated consequence, but it could justly be said that Hitler and Tojo: did far more to get the US out of the Great Depression than all of FDR's "New Deal" programs combined; may have saved the US from a double-dip depression.
