Abstract

Hoover's Washington

U.S. President Herbert Hoover deeply disappointed over the results of his initial efforts to abolish poverty by legislative methods, turns to the conference method and summons a whole battalion of "leaders" to the White House Office, hoping by this means at least to prevent the spread of such poverty as already exists. Whether the latter plan will succeed any better than the former is subject to conjecture but nobody can doubt that it is infinitely better suited to U.S. President's temperament and talent. It is, in fact, the very sort of thing at which his gifts show to most advantage, and probably he has begun to realize it. If the special session of the U.S. Congress demonstrated one thing for certain, it was that U.S. President is totally devoid of skill in getting a legislative program adopted by the U.S. Congress. He simply has no idea of the proper way to go about it.