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...Bill Hopkins gives a melancholy sigh when he reads about the security barriers around the White House and about the huge budget ($23 million) and staff (322) that serve the President. As a clerk for the Bureau of Naturalization in Herbert Hoover's Administration, he used to amble out of his office on G Street for lunch as just another pedestrian with no security pass other than his amiable attitude. He would walk all the way through the old State, War and Navy Building (now the Executive Office Building), climb the steps beside the West Wing of the White...
...joined the White House correspondence staff in 1931, answering presidential mail and taking shorthand. Herbert Hoover had an appointive staff of four people, plenty large enough to run the place in those days. Occasionally Hopkins would get a hurry-up call to come to the White House late at night to transcribe Hoover's writing, which he would do on the spot. During the day in his office Hoover would stand I with a cigar in his mouth and his back to Hopkins and dictate. Hopkins had a tough time extracting I phrases muffled by Hoover's cigar...
Most ideas that work their way up to the presidency have been around for a while in one form or another. A lot of the nostrums for the Depression, for instance, were debated in the days of Herbert Hoover. But the man who got serious about them and acted on them, Franklin Roosevelt, became known as the New Thinker. John Kennedy did not dream up the Peace Corps. He swiped the idea from Congressman Henry Reuss and Senator Hubert Humphrey, who, of course, borrowed it from church dusted-off, replated New Deal...
Sassafras Herbert proudly displays her handsome diploma from the American Association of Nutrition and Dietary Consultants. The certificate entitles Herbert to a listing in the Official Directory of Nutrition and Dietary Consultants and special rates for malpractice insurance. The latter benefit is a good thing, because Sassafras is an eleven-year-old poodle. Her owner, Victor Herbert, a New York City physician, bought the diploma for $50 to prove a point. Says he: "Something that looks like a diploma doesn't mean that somebody has responsible training...
...venue moved the first trial to Orange County and the second to Westchester. To pay for the first trial, Rockland last year had to double a new county sales tax. The huge expenses in the second have touched off a war of words between Rockland and Westchester officials. When Herbert Reisman, chairman of the Rockland County legislature, speaks of the "bandits in Westchester," he does not mean the defendants. The extensive security procedures are "outrageous and outlandish," Reisman says. "There is no way Westchester County would approve the requests made by their director of public safety if they...