"Hoover's corporatism - the notion that state, business, the unions, and other Big Brothers should work together in gentle, but persistent and continuous manipulation to make life better - was the received wisdom of the day, among enlightened capitalists, left wing Republicans and non-socialist intellectuals. [...] Hoover was its outstanding impresario and ideologue. [...]
Hence the general belief that Hoover, as President, would be a miracle worker. The Philadelphia Record called him 'easily the most commanding figure in the modern science of "engineering statesmanship." The Boston Globe said the nation knew they had at the White House one who believed in the "dynamics of mastery." He was the "Great Engineer." [...]
More major public works were started in Hoover's four years than in the previous thirty, including the San Francisco Bay Bridge, the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and the Hoover Dam."
Hence the general belief that Hoover, as President, would be a miracle worker. The Philadelphia Record called him 'easily the most commanding figure in the modern science of "engineering statesmanship." The Boston Globe said the nation knew they had at the White House one who believed in the "dynamics of mastery." He was the "Great Engineer." [...]
More major public works were started in Hoover's four years than in the previous thirty, including the San Francisco Bay Bridge, the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and the Hoover Dam."
- from Modern Times, by Paul Johnson (pg. 243-245)
