Herbert Hoover: On Do the Ends Justify the Means

​Yes, Americans want their leaders to be virginally spotless when they speak of themselves, their policies, or their beliefs, but in order to deliver on those policies, our unwillingness to accept even a temporary setback sometimes issues forth a devil behind closed doors.

​Isn’t this the heart of many a movie script: the story of a good man or woman who must sometimes live and act in compromisingly grey areas, to deliver on their promise? Can the hero/heroine then extricate their souls unblemished from what they had to do to accomplish those ends?

​Subliminally, Herbert Hoover’s book consistently poses one question, “Do the ends justify the means?” …
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​… to his death bed ending, Woodrow Wilson believed not.

Peter E. Greulich

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