I kinda got it
From my reading the biggest difference between Hoover and FDR was, Hoover would not give money directly from the feds to the people, but to the respective States. Which fits when one considers what the founders were trying to set up. Who could foresee the radical changes society would make due to the industrial revolution?
Interestingly before he was hung with the Depression he was considered a great humanitarian and very good at bringing people together.
Heck even blaming the tacturn Coolidge is something of a stretch, as things really were different before the Depression....
Pete