Margaret Hoover

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The David Frum Show · Was Herbert Hoover America’s Most Misunderstood President? · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

and impose upon individual liberty.

And so he calls it, he actually has his own word for it.

He calls it regimentation.

You know, what he ultimately does when Truman brings him back in to feed the world after World War II and help establish the foundation of the Marshall Plan, he also, both through Truman and then through Eisenhower, is asked to assemble a review of how the executive branch and the federal government work.

And he has essentially this this huge committee like what's a congressionally mandated committee that reviews the executive agencies, reviews their authority, and then makes recommendations to Congress, of which 80 to 90 percent of them are passed into law that sort of are intended to bring efficiencies and accountability to the federal government that had exploded previously.

And then Eisenhower brings him back in.

So this is called the Hoover Commission.

I mean, it had its own title, but it is sort of known as the Hoover Commission, the first Hoover Commission, and then the second Hoover Commission.

And one of the things Hoover was known for was his ability to operate massively scaled operations in a highly efficient way.

And so it was this idea of bringing his abilities at efficiencies to the federal government.

I think that's right because the point is that one can have professionals in the federal government that are intended to execute the operations of the executive branch in the federal government despite the person who is in the office.

And if you don't, then what you're doing is reverting to a 19th century system of spoils.

where political appointees are rewarded for their loyalty and placed in positions of power, where they can take advantage of the trust placed in the president by the American people to their own ends.

This is not the sort of fair administration of the government that is to serve all of us as equally as possible.

And it is true.

It is an affront, actually, on sort of the notion that

The government is there to operate very specific tasks on behalf of all of us who need it rather equally rather than through privilege or patronage or association with power.

You're so kind to have me, David.

It is a great privilege and honor to be on with you.

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