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Still ruddy and erect at 80, Herbert Clark Hoover went up from Washington last week to apartment 31A in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Towers, and packed for a long fishing trip to the California redwood country. He had just finished a 21-month tour of duty as chairman of the second Hoover Commission to study the operations of the U.S. Government. A vice chairman was authorized but never elected-and never needed. Hoover personally recruited each task-force member, supervised the 525-man staff, ran every meeting of the commission and wrote all but two of the reports (Legal...
Candid Premise. The 1947 Hoover Commission was restricted to checking on the procedural efficiency of existing agencies. The new (1953) Hoover Commission got a much broader mission: to examine the substance of Government activity and arrive at conclusions not only as to how agencies were doing their work but also whether the work should be done at all. Such evaluations were made on a premise candidly expressed. Said Herbert Hoover: "Private enterprise is the root of our system, and the underlying thesis of the commission has been to preserve and strengthen the fundamentals of our system and our Government...
Keep Out. The 1955 Hoover reports recommended that many of the 104 Government units involved in banking and insurance should either 1) shut up shop or 2) operate on a self-supporting basis, and Postal Savings was cited as one activity the Government should give up entirely. The commission urged that Government loans be made at realistic rates and made its case by citation. Item: Rural Electrification Administration loans are made at 2% interest, and are covered by Treasury money borrowed at 3%. In its most controversial report, the commission strongly urged that the U.S. Government keep...
Savings that the Hoover Commission task forces estimated that their recommendations would effect each year were spectacular. A few: budgeting and accounting, $4 billion, depot utilization, $253,000,000, paperwork management, $288,300,000, use and disposal of federal surplus property (first four years), $2 billion...
POWER REPORT by a Hoover Commission task force this week will recommend that the U.S. get out of the public power business as soon as possible. The task force, headed by Jones & Laughlin Chairman Ben Moreell, wants the Government to sell off its projects (including TVA and Bonneville), boost rates to the level of private rates, and make those who benefit from irrigation, flood-control and other water-resource projects pay more of the cost. In no future project should the U.S. contribution through loans total more than...