Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harding tried it for a little while, then insisted that questions be submitted in advance, in writing. Coolidge refused ever to be quoted, created the "White House Spokesman." He too invited written questions, which he usually ignored. Hoover won applause at the outset by abolishing the "spokesman." His very first sentence to assembled newsmen-"It seems that the whole Press of the United States has given me the honor of a call this morning"-was considered momentous because it was the first direct quotation from a President in years. But like his predecessors, President Hoover soon decreed that questions must...
...Hoover system failed because the Press audience included not only regular White House correspondents but also their editors and influential friends, magazine writers and "tipsters." Instead of barring the supernumeraries, Mr. Hoover simply talked with restraint. Later when the Press became critical of his official acts there grew a mutual distrust. Acutely sensitive to criticism, the President decided the Press was hostile. In turn the Press decided the President was sour, evasive. He began to ignore written questions, eventually practically abandoned press conferences...
President Roosevelt adopted the three Hoover categories of news, and did not promise to answer all questions. But he limited his audience strictly to the regular White House corps; and he permitted quotation only of his exact words, as recorded by the stenographers. The complete transcript of every press conference will be kept, said the President, because he does not want to revive the "Ananias Club." as Theodore Roosevelt called White House visitors whom he had to turnquote...
...Washington in 1922 after having held similar positions in the East Indies and Japan for six years. In May 1927 he felt obliged to state that the Vatican had no interest in Alfred E. Smith's candidacy for President. In 1929, the Apostolic Delegate called on President Hoover. Archbishop Fumasoni-Biondi, 60, is tall, pink and scholarly. He lived quietly in Washington, dined out occasionally with oldish men at the more sedate embassies, kept a "blind" telephone number which even Catholic organizations in Washington did not know. He is likely to be appointed prefect of the Holy Congregation...
Died. Dan P. Hoover, 47, vice president of Hoover Co. (vacuum cleaners), son of the founder; by jumping from a fifth floor window at Cleveland Clinic while under observation for a stomach disorder...