We didn’t admit it at the time, but practically the Whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started.
Rexford Tugwell
2.
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
Rexford Tugwell
3.
To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed,
they were tortured interpretations of a document
[the Constitution] intended to prevent them.
