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...MEMOIRS OF HERBERT HOOVER, The Cabinet and the Presidency (405 pp.) -Herbert Hoover-Macmillan...
Calvin Coolidge's Secretary of Commerce was one of the many who wondered what the President really meant by the phrase, "I do not choose to run." Since Herbert Hoover's friends were urging him to run himself, he tried to get Silent Cal to talk. Ohio Congressmen, Secretary Hoover explained, were planning to enter Hoover's name in the Ohio primary. Replied Coolidge...
...this day. Hoover is not sure what Calvin Coolidge's 1928 intentions really were. But the Hoover boom grew, almost without effort on Hoover's part. He had no official preconvention campaign manager, and he made no political speeches before his party met at Kansas City and nominated him on the first ballot. The election was a sweep: 40 states for Hoover (including such Democratic strongholds as Texas, North Carolina and Virginia), only eight for Al Smith. "I came to the White House with a program of vigorous policies," adds Herbert Hoover. "But instead of being able...
...this second volume of his memoirs, the ex-President deals only in passing with the economic hurricane which began in 1929. A third volume, The Great Depression, will deal with it in full. The Cabinet and the Presidency takes up where Volume I (TIME, Oct. 22) left off, with Hoover's return from his World War I relief missions; it tells of Herbert Hoover's eight years as Secretary of Commerce under Harding and Coolidge and of the not unimportant but less dramatic undertakings in his four years as President. It is, as the author admits, "a text...
Here, for example, is Herbert Hoover, often dubbed by his critics a pillar of the Old Guard, on the subject of railroad presidents who opposed his efforts at settlement of the 1922 railroad strike: "It was a suggestive thing that the railway presidents who led the opposition had their offices in New York City. They have mostly gone to their graves unknown to all the public except the sexton, or they still dodder around their clubs, quavering that 'labor must be disciplined...