President Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon

a. had long harbored doubts about the free-market system.
b. proved too inexperienced to deal with the economic crisis.
c. believed that the market plunge was temporary and would strengthen the economy.
d. anticipated many of the New Deal ideas in his own communications with Hoover.


ANSWER: c

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