Thursday, October 6, 2016

Part 3 - Secretary of Commerce - The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum


Hoover was the Secretary of Commerce under President Warren Harding.
Harding died in office and was succeeded by Calvin Coolidge.



Hoover's activities as Secretary of Commerce included standardization of products - it was interesting to see what things needed to be standardized.




Some interesting statistics
 




"I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was to call in Main Street itself."

A map of the flooded areas

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