Herbert Hoover, although flawed in many ways and disliked by many, he did great work to repair damage in Europe following World War I, and brought thousands of US troops home.
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in the past our survival instincts were higher and we were likely more adapted to require less water, nowadays we tend to rely on water more as well as the accessibility of it, an example of this dependability is when snow or cold temperatures cause the water to freeze leaving people with a shortage of water, this affects people greatly, much more than it would have in the past likely