How did president hover respond to the onset on the great depression? how did his policies change over time?

At first, Hoover tried to implement aid for workers, strove for harmony among laborers and created agencies to solve the problem.  He also urged business and government to establish stable prices.  All of his approaches were indirect.  This was enough and when he considered government intervention it was too late.

i confess that there are several parts of this constitution which i do not at present approve, but i am not sure i shall never approve them: for having lived long, i have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which i once thought right, but found to be otherwise. it is therefore that the older i grow, the more apt i am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.