Herbert Hoover actually said...

We use today the trowel with which President Washington laid the cornerstone of the Capitol, 136 years ago.

And its ideals are clear: that by cooperation and not by compulsion it should seek to assist in maintaining and giving the impulse of progre...

It represents the most important structure in the new program for better accommodation of our Government and the beautification of our Natio...

The beginnings of the idea to create a Department of Commerce are perhaps obscure.