Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with such weighty subjects as the terrors of trench foot, the best way to dig a latrine and the importance of keeping boots polished. But as in most matters, Red China is different. A 776-page collection of Red Chinese army documents just published by Stanford University's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a fascinating exception. The papers, some of which were captured from Chinese Communist junks off the South China coast, some probably filched by Chinese Nationalist spies, cover most of 1961-a year when Red China was nursing bruised shins from the disastrous "Great...
...filed for probate in Manhattan-and leaving the bulk of his estate of more than $1,000,000, including proceeds from the eventual sale of Le Pavilion and his newer Cote Basque, to his widow Olga and sister Madeleine-he bequeathed "a watch to my dear friend J. Edgar Hoover," the FBI's bonded epicurean...
Power Loss. Also unquestioned was Katzenbach's observation that electing Representatives only in presidential years would give the President a more cooperative House and lessen the chance of crippling legislative stalemates, such as those that stymied Herbert Hoover when Democrats took over the lower chamber in 1931 and Harry Truman when Republicans took command in 1947. Only once in this century-in 1934-has the presidential party not lost strength during off-year elections...
...demand. Johnson knows that he must have a vigorous economy to support his Great Society programs as well as the war in Viet Nam and the U.S.'s reach for the moon. To further that aim, he has more day-to-day contact with businessmen than any President since Hoover; he telephones hundreds of them regularly and invites scores to the Oval Room to hear their opinions. Under the atmospherics of the Johnson Administration, the U.S. has a Government whose economic policies are simultaneously devoted to Keynesianism, committed to growth, and decidedly probusiness...
...goodness, Mr. McCone!" tutted a White House guard next day. "What'll they do next-break into Edgar Hoover's house?" It was nearly that bad. While former Central Intelligence Agency Director John McCone waltzed around with his wife Ti at Washington's National Symphony Ball, somebody cracked the Shoreham Hotel's defenses upstairs, broke into the McCones' suite and seriously sabotaged Ti's jewel collection. More than $18,000 in diamonds and pearls and other baubles were gone when the ball was over, and Edgar Hoover's boys immediately jumped...