The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover's aegis. We all of us owed much to Hoover Votes: 15
We didn't admit it at the time, but practically the Whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started. Votes: 6
To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed, they were tortured interpretations of a document [the Constitution] intended to prevent them. Votes: 3