Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rockefeller wins the Republican nomination in the biggest surprise since Herbert Hoover won two Democratic primaries in 1920 before announcing that he was a Republican. Stuck for a running mate, Rockefeller drafts fellow New Yorker Nixon (experience counts). Nixon moves back to Whittier, Calif., near the site of the old family grocery. His name becomes No. 780,414 on a currently circulating petition to recall Governor Ronald Reagan, thus allowing the measure to go to a vote...
...schemes to make L.B.J.'s last days in office soar. Aides are studying history to gain insights from predecessors, but the findings are disappointing. Eisenhower traveled widely and issued a warning against the military-industrial complex. But Kennedy was murdered, Truman disdained, Roosevelt died in office, and Hoover was in discredit...
President Aide Joe Califano is combing the country, plucking ideas from thoughtful men about Johnson's last months in office, but most of his harvest is chaff. One suggestion for a final gesture: "Fire J. Edgar Hoover...
...made by a suspect is deemed voluntary. The bill also permits police to hold a suspect up to six hours-and longer in some cases-without an arraignment. Noting that these provisions apply only to federal cases, Johnson snowed his displeasure by telling the Attorney General and J. Edgar Hoover that federal suspects should still be given "full and fair warning" of their constitutional rights...
...most apparent difference between the two was in their attitudes toward two major Administration officials: FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, who was one of the first officials to be reconfirmed in office by John F. Kennedy, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk, a J.F.K. appointee. Bobby noted that he has disagreed with Rusk for some time, but understandably refused to say that he would fire him. McCarthy was somewhat less tender. Stating the obvious, he said that he would sack any Cabinet member with whose policies or performance he disagreed; he left no doubt that he would retire both Rusk...