Rexford Tugwell quotes:

The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover's aegis. We all of us owed much to Hoover

We didn't admit it at the time, but practically the Whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started.

To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed, they were tortured interpretations of a document [the Constitution] intended to prevent them.