Hoover's Influence on American Politics

Herbert Hoover was a liberal who ran for president in the 1920s. He had no connection to U.S. politics and didn't know about it, says historian Andrew Yang. But Republicans still felt compelled to bring him into government because he is an important national figure.Yang: As head of department of commerce,. he's really trying to remake the government in this associational image that he'd developed in his previous decades.