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...KWRU organizers planned Bushville both as a high-visibility reminder of poverty and a disparaging comparison between George W. Bush and Herbert Hoover. During Hoover's presidency the Depression struck, sending the poor into shantytowns which they dubbed "Hoovervilles" out of contempt for the president. With both sides hoping to avoid any ugliness, KWRU lawyers and police officials negotiated a minute-to-minute truce as the march moved slowly from Bushville's Northern Philadelphia ghetto toward the main downtown thoroughfares connecting Center City to the First Union Center, where the convention would begin that night...
...condescension on the Bush convention. They jeered all week at the GOP's kinder-and-gentler diversity pageant, arguing that the gaudy display of pigmentations and orientations and live-and-let-live gem?tlichkeit bears no relation to Republican politics in the real world. New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, implying that the African-Americans on stage in Philadelphia were singing and dancing in a vicious minstrel show, had the effrontery to suggest that Colin Powell was insufficiently black...
Conversely, Herbert Hoover was a gleamingly successful citizen right up until the fall of 1929, when his reputation followed the economy downward in a disastrous spiral...
Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, the senior member of the Corporation, will chair the committee. D. Ronald Daniel, Hanna H. Gray, Conrad K. Harper, James R. Houghton '58 and Herbert S. Winokur '65 round out the Corporation. The three Overseers on the search committee are Sharon E. Gagnon, Thomas E. Everhart '53 and Richard E. Oldenburg...
...Herbert S. Winokur Jr. '64-'65 is the youngest member of the search committee--the only one under 60. He received all three of his academic degrees from Harvard and continues to have close ties with the financial and academic sides of the University...