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...name at least one. I can name at least one. He began his public life as a Foreign Service officer in Edinburgh, Scotland. He came to Washington at the behest of a Republican Secretary of Agriculture . . . He held top posts in the Department of Agriculture under Presidents Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt ... He accepted special wartime assignments under Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Truman. He resigned from federal service to become president of Kansas State College and later became president of Pennsylvania State College-one of the best college executives in the country. The name, if you have any doubt, is Milton...
Howard's career as a crusading journalist was reviewed on tape by ex-President Herbert Hoover. "You have a unique position among crusaders," said Hoover...
...Hoover estimated that the Treasury could recover some $15 billion through the sale of surplus property and other liquidations. If all commission proposals were adopted, he said, the U.S. could balance the budget and lower taxes. The savings recommended by the reports totaled $8.5 billion a year, but this figure was deceptively high because some of the proposed economies overlapped...
...reports of the 1947 Hoover Commission were widely applauded and nearly 75% of the recommendations have since been adopted. The 1955 reports are far more basic and more controversial. Many of the recommendations have already been met with sharp criticism from New Deal Democrats and other advocates of big government and the welfare state. Quieter, but perhaps more important, is the resistance from entrenched bureaucracy, military and civilian, and from powerful business groups that want special Government services. Not all opponents are New Dealish; many pay obeisance to the doctrines of free enterprise. Much of Government expansion, including some Government...
...have responsibility for Government functions cannot be expected to recommend the elimination or shrinking of the functions; the great value of the Hoover report is to appraise these activities with an objectivity that bureaucrats, subsidized businessmen or pressured Congressmen cannot share...