At the time, Coolidge handed the baton over to his former secretary of commerce Herbertova.

当时，柯立芝把指挥棒交给了他的前商务部长赫伯特瓦。

" It's been kind of a hidden secret, " says Michael Preston, Arkansas's secretary of commerce.

“这是一个隐藏的秘密，”阿肯色州商务部长迈克尔普雷斯顿说。

The Republican Party chose Herbert Hoover. He was an engineer and businessman who served as secretary of commerce for presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge.

共和党则选择了赫伯特·胡佛，他是一名工程师兼商人，曾担任沃伦·哈丁总统和卡尔文·柯立芝总统的商务部长。