Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voice vote in the Senate, a resolution giving former Presidents the right to speak on the Senate floor. Urged by many a U.S. Senator and Representative since 1944, the resolution in effect offers the Senate floor as a forum for the counsel of the three living ex-Presidents-Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower. The resolution, however, limits ex-Presidents to speeches delivered "upon appropriate notice," falls far short of other long-standing efforts to declare them "Senators at large" with full rights in voting and debate...
...ones by scores of 91-0, 87-6, 61-7. In December, Blough will receive the National Football Foundation's 1963 gold-medal award for "outstanding contributions to the game." How come? Well, deadpans the foundation, which in previous years has honored such All-American names as Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy, "Blough may not have been one of football's greatest players, but he was certainly one of the pluckiest ... an undersized, hard-playing lineman for an outmanned varsity...
...entire Communist Party will be made up of FBI informants"-who pay their dues, in contrast to regular party members, who do not. "In no time at all," concluded Buchwald, "the Communists could become the leading political party in the country." He suggested its candidate for President: "J. Edgar Hoover, of course. Who else...
...Inspiring Palace. Several First Ladies made some efforts to bring a touch of history into White House interiors. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge persuaded Congress to authorize the White House to accept gifts of antiques. Mrs. Herbert Hoover recovered some pieces of furniture that had been in the White House in Monroe's time, had replicas made of furniture in Monroe's law office in Fredericksburg. But when the Kennedys moved in, the White House contained only a scant sprinkling of important art or authentic antiques. Most of the cabinetry dated from the 20th century. While the walls were cluttered...
...collection, from George Washington's diaries to Theodore White's The Making of the President. The stress is on Big Think: John K. Galbraith, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Walter Lippmann, Reinhold Niebuhr, Henry De Wolf Smyth, David Riesman. Also big are presidential memoirs, including those of Truman, Hoover and Eisenhower. President Kennedy makes it with Profiles in Courage and, granted equal time, so does Richard Nixon with Six Crises...