Roosevelt or Hoover? The Most Important Speech the President Has Ever Given

Tomorrow President Obama will return to Cooper Union in New York, where he gave a speech on financial reform as a candidate two years ago. We\’re told that his advisors want him to \”go big\” in his speech, as he did when he addressed a joint session of Congress on health reform. But if he follows the same course he followed in health reform – \”going big\” on rhetoric and then \”acting small\” on policy – he\’s not just courting political blowback: He\’s running the risk of going down in history as this century\’s Herbert Hoover.