Coolidge was succeeded by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover after the 1928 presidential election. Coolidge took office in the aftermath of World War I, during which the United States had raised taxes to unprecedented rates. This committee recommended that the government conduct an in-depth investigation into reservation life, resulting in the Meriam Report of 1928. For 88 years he was the only sitting president to have visited Cuba, until Barack Obama did so in 2016.