President Wilson could not question his effectiveness with the CRB, so Hoover was given the job as food administrator (Biography). Hoover realized that his earlier work in Belgium was a useful model for wartime administration and that his own reputation for being the “Great Engineer” put him in a unique position to help win the war (Reference …show more content…
However, Hoover also came to accept the belief that Prohibition had failed after being given an “honest trial (American Decades).” After defeating Al Smith for the presidency, as president, he worked to enforce prohibition, within lawful limits, because it was his duty to do so under the Constitution (Salem Press). Yet the report of his commission, which contained only one Prohibitionist, was evasive if not confused (Biography). “The findings are wet and the recommendations are dry,” the despairing president complained to his secretary of state (Hoover). Throughout his 1932 campaign, Hoover remained a captive of the Prohibitionists, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the beneficiary of growing sentiments