eric sevareid remembers the anguish of his father's generation.hink the instinct of that generation was to blame themselves. somehow they had not listened to god's word closely enough or hadn't been smart about how they handled the land or loans or something. only later did they begin to blame the government or the system. people have to have scapegoats. they can't feel personally responsible forever. and it was such a vast thing anyway something fundamentally broken down. we were plowing under food killing little pigs, and people were going hungry. millions of sick people and doctors going broke. what was going on? what was the sense to this-- this rich country? politicians of 1932 were prisoners of the economic theories of the day that held the economy would improve. that's the message president hoover kept delivering. in cambridge, england, john maynard keynes was telling students the american economy would get worse. people lost jobs and stopped spending. as they stopped buying stores stopped ordering. more factories closed. more jobs were los