Quick Answer. Herbert Hoover served as U.S. president from 1928 to 1932, which was one of the most economically depressed periods in the country's history. Though he cut taxes, invested in public works projects, established the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and signed into law the Smoot-Hawley Act, he failed to end the Depression.
MAJOR PERSONALITY STUDY FINDS THAT TRAITS ARE MOSTLY INHERITED. THE genetic makeup of a child is a stronger influence on personality than child rearing, according to the first study to examine identical twins reared in different families. The findings shatter a widespread belief among experts and laymen alike in the primacy of family influence and are sure to engender fierce debate.
Of course, the conclusion that genes don't influence personality is most certainly wrong, after all, we have decades of twin research showing similarity in personality between identical twins. At least some of that similarity has to be genetic.he current prevailing genetic evidence seems to suggest that we actually don't have genes for personality. And this conclusion doesn't come from a lack of trying: The US government has spent billions on genetic research. Billions.