What's funny about this--other than that Frum worked in a White House that celebrate incompetence almost as much as this one--is that what he thinks about Hoover is what people thought about Hoover when he was elected--but not for much longer after that!https://twitter.com/moshik_temkin/status/1242908932395487234 …
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Replying to @jacremes
Feel like I read somewhere that Hoover's image as an ultra-competent technocrat was a result of his relentless PR campaigning and he was actually not all that great at organization and management. Is that not accurate?
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Oh, that's interesting. Barry, who is my source for all this, is pretty complimentary of his managing the 1927 flood, although with the pretty big caveat that he wasn't really interested in preventing really bad white supremacist abuses in Mississippi.
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Hoover was definitely competent in running technocratic organizations -- the food relief stuff was rightly admired, by Keynes among others. The problem was the Depression required an ideological shift he wasn't ready to make (and the more adaptable FDR was).
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