Article: Blame Herbert Hoover, not Franklin Roosevelt, for protectionist tariffs.(Commentary)(Editorials)(Letters)

While I have little use for the Democrats' penchant for spending other people's money, and even less for the rantings of Pat Buchanan, Donald Lambro misspoke in his Feb. 29 column when he tagged protectionism as a policy of the New Deal.

The Hawley-Smoot tariffs, the highest in U.S. history, were enacted in 1930, during the ...

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