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==Commerce Secretary==

==Commerce Secretary==

By 1920 both parties considered Hoover for president. He announced he was a Republican and supported [[Warren Harding]]. harding appointed him as Secretary of Commerce, until then a minor job. Hoover, already one of the most famous people in the world (and far more famous than harding or Coolidge) transformed it the most visible, imaginative and path-breaking agency of government.<ref> After Hoover left Commerce relapsed into obscurity again.</ref>  

By 1920 both parties considered Hoover for president. He announced he was a Republican and following the convention supported [[Warren Harding]]. Harding appointed him as Secretary of Commerce, until then a minor job. Hoover, already one of the most famous people in the world (and far more famous than harding or Coolidge) transformed it the most visible, imaginative and path-breaking agency of government.<ref> After Hoover left Commerce relapsed into obscurity again.</ref>  

As secretary (and later as President), Hoover revolutionized the relations between business and government. Rejecting the adversarial anti-business stance of [[Theodore Roosevelt]], [[William Howard Taft]], and [[Woodrow Wilson]], he sought to make the Commerce Department a powerful service organization, empowered to forge cooperative voluntary partnerships between government and business. This philosophy is often called "associationalism."   

As secretary (and later as President), Hoover revolutionized the relations between business and government. Rejecting the adversarial anti-business stance of [[Theodore Roosevelt]], [[William Howard Taft]], and [[Woodrow Wilson]], he sought to make the Commerce Department a powerful service organization, empowered to forge cooperative voluntary partnerships between government and business. This philosophy is often called "associationalism."   

In the spring of 1927, the Great Mississippi Flood broke the banks and levees and flooded millions of acres on which people lived.  The governors of six states called for Hoover in the emergency, so President Coolidge sent Hoover to mobilize state and local authorities, militia, army engineers, Coast Guard, and the [[American Red Cross]]. Hoover set up health units, with a grant from the [[Rockefeller Foundation]], to work in the flooded regions for a year. These workers stamped out [[malaria]], [[pellagra]] and [[typhoid fever]] from many areas.  His work during the flood brought Herbert Hoover to the front page of newspapers almost everywhere.

In the spring of 1927, the Great Mississippi Flood broke the banks and levees and flooded millions of acres on which people lived.  The governors of six states called for Hoover in the emergency, so President Coolidge sent Hoover to mobilize state and local authorities, militia, army engineers, Coast Guard, and the [[American Red Cross]]. Hoover set up health units, with a grant from the [[Rockefeller Foundation]], to work in the flooded regions for a year. These workers stamped out [[malaria]], [[pellagra]] and [[typhoid fever]] from many areas.  His work during the flood brought Herbert Hoover to the front page of newspapers almost everywhere.

==Election to Presidency==

==Election to Presidency==