Download or read book The Veterans Administration: A Broken System(Revised) written by Stephen ReedBS .Rel, MS. Theo, MS. Social Work and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-13 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Hoover, in his 1929 State of the Union message, proposed consolidating agencies administering veteran's benefits. The following year Congress created the Veterans Administration by uniting three bureaus - the previously independent Veterans' Bureau, the Bureau of Pensions and the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. President Hoover signed the executive order establishing the VA on July 21, 1930. Hines, who had served since 1923 as director of the Veterans' Bureau, was named the first administrator of the agency