Michael Perelman wrote:
> But he refused aid to Hungary during the short-lived revolution.  The
> problems he confronted in real life tended to confuse him.

right. I think that Hoover tended to live in a world which worked
according to perfectly rational (engineer's) standards. But the real
world is very different.

One book I read compares Hoover to Carter, because they both "snapped"
when events stopped being comprehensible.
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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