Lyndon Johnson vs. Herbert Hoover, 1964

[MaC]

I of course vote for the less socialist candidate. Option 1. Let's assume he lives a month longer.

Maps?

typical Phillip, makes an outrageous assertion without backing it up and expects us to completely understand what he's talking about.

Hoover may have started the New Deal, but he didn't do nearly as much as Lyndon Johnson did in as far as starting social programs or setting minimum wage laws, or starting work programs, or creating a welfare state.  Care to back up your assertion?

[MaC]

Hoover raised the top income tax rate from 25% to 63%. With his approval, the estate tax was doubled and corporate taxes were raised by almost 15%.

Notable Hoover policies and proposals include fifty dollar monthly pensions for Americans over 65. A price-fixing Federal Farm Board. An anti-trust division in the Justice Department. Federal loans for urban slum clearances. A federal Department of Education. And the Anti-Injunction Act, which outlawed yellow dog contracts in which a worker agreed as a condition of employment not to join a labor union.

Some of those became law. Others didn't. They were all bad.

ah, okay.  You make good points.  Not enough to convince me, but still good, although I wish you'd start a thread with these claims rather than have us in the dark.