By G. Jeansonne
This is often the 1st definitive examine of the presidency of America's least understood and such a lot under-appreciated leader govt. Combining executive with inner most assets, Hoover turned the 1st president to pit executive motion opposed to the industrial cycle, environment precedents and spawning principles hired via his successor and all destiny presidents.
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29 Politically, Coolidge leaned on Hoover heavily. He relied on him for patronage recommendations in the entire West, not merely California. Hoover was a major strategist in Coolidge’s 1924 campaign, especially in the West. Though Hoover was considered a political novice by outsiders, Coolidge acknowledged his judgment. When Coolidge received policy memos on numerous issues, he often sent them to Hoover before farming them out. Hoover suggested the right department or staffer. Harding was a journalist while Coolidge disliked writing.
One of the first to sign up was his old friend and Stanford classmate, Ray Lyman Wilbur, who subsequently attended the Republican convention as an alternate for Hoover. The student newspaper and the Alumni Association endorsed Hoover, the first time the latter had backed a candidate. Much of the campaigning by individuals came at their own initiative, some of them unaffiliated with any group. Some were Stanford classmates or dated to his mining career, the CRB, or the Food Administration. Like Hoover, they were idealistic.
He lacked stamina, suffered from heart problems (unknown at the time), and was exhausted from stress. Seemingly placid, the president’s peace of mind was frayed, and his job preyed on his thoughts. Coolidge’s childhood had been unhappy, and the shadow of death haunted him. He lost his mother as a boy and his father while president. The president’s personal ordeal and poor health, which contributed to his reticence, were aggravated by the death of Calvin Jr. at 14. The boy died of an infected blister after playing tennis on the White House lawn (a symptom 15 16 H O O V E R of the poor medical care available even to the family of a president in the 1920s).