Still ruddy and erect at 80, Herbert Clark Hoover went up from Washington last week to apartment 31A in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Towers, and packed for a long fishing trip to the California redwood country. He had just finished a 21-month tour of duty as chairman of the second Hoover Commission to study the operations of the U.S. Government. A vice chairman was authorized but never elected—and never needed. Hoover personally recruited each task-force member, supervised the 525-man staff, ran every meeting of the commission and wrote all but two of the reports...
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