Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dulles' illness leaves open the possibility that the man holding the job of Undersecretary will succeed him. It was hardly comforting to think of Herbert Hoover, Jr., the man Herter will replace next month, as Secretary of State. Hoover's blunders on several important occasions have obscured the achievement which won him his job: successfully ending the Iranian oil dispute...
...morning and all afternoon some of the biggest names of U.S. foreign policy slipped unobtrusively into the White House for top-secret meetings. Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. was in and out of the President's office all day; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Arthur Radford hurried in through a side door, his aides carrying wooden easels and maps and charts covered with plastic blankets. On hand for two of the secret meetings was Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen Dulles, along with Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss. As the warm day's light...
...staff. For almost four years Secretary of State Dulles has carried much of U.S. foreign policy around the world in his hat; when Dulles was stricken with cancer at the height of the crisis, the U.S. was also sorely stricken. And although Ike respects Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr., he respects him primarily as an administrator. At one point in the crisis the President wanted to bring in his old wartime chief of staff Walter Bedell Smith as a temporary foreign-policy adviser, but Hoover earnestly objected. The President, aware of the Cabinet officer's traditional fear...
From all visible signs it seemed that the Russians had understood what the U.S. meant by promising "to oppose" the Russian volunteers, a promise that Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. reiterated before the U.N. General Assembly later in the week. But no one in Washington thought that this quiet victory settled anything permanently. For one thing, the Kremlin was throwing dust in all directions; e.g., at week's end, almost as if there had been no Budapest, no threat of desert war, the Russians proposed a new disarmament plan, which they couched in boasts that they could...
Devoted to his chief and unimpressed by the limelight, Hoover at week's end could be cheered by reports that the Secretary was rapidly recovering, might be back at his Foggy Bottom desk sooner than expected...