During the belt tightening and labor shortages of the U.S. entry into World War I, he dismissed his chauffeur (normal for a man of his wealth to have) …Thereby causing his chauffeur to do some belt-tightening of his own.
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However, in the White House, while the rest of the country suffered through the Depression (a term Hoover himself coined), Hoover, dressed formally, enjoyed each evening elaborate dinners with a small army of serving staff and military orderlies in attendance. And, in a separate example of dimwitted detachment from reality, he permitted MacArthur's rough-shod, brutal, bloody removal of thousands of homeless Bonus Army hopefuls. Yeah, Hoover was a real piece of work!
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