Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bitterly opposed by Shatz is an agency of the Department of the Interior. Founded in 1902 to irrigate the barren West, the bureau has spent $7.6 billion to dam, channel, pump and divert almost anything that flows in that vast region. The bureau's proudest monuments: the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River and the Grand Coulee on the Columbia...
...Inaugural, but he adopted classic architecture and Louis XVI furniture. He eschewed the pomp of Kings, but he enjoyed regal dinners, which Carter does not. History suggests no correlation between the adoption of presidential tradition and success. Abraham Lincoln wore a stovepipe hat and saved the nation. Herbert Hoover often wore his tux to dinner-and nearly lost the country...
...carrying out his vendetta against Martin Luther King Jr., FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover tried to get newsmen to listen to tapes of King's bedroom conversations in hotels. Only fragments ever saw print, but their existence has lingered in the air as a gossipy tidbit. Now, a federal judge has ordered the tapes held under seal for 50 years, not to be disclosed unless under court order. Presumably this is meant to spare King's widow, Coretta, any further embarrassment. A Department of Justice investigation concluded that the tapes were "very probably" illegally obtained; they are thus...
Special Roles. Longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, his colleagues believe, worried that undercover work would allow agents to operate largely outside the bureau's rigid discipline. Under Clarence Kelley, however, agents have posed as Mafiosi, fences, jewel thieves and swindlers...
...William Howard Toft according to the energy they put into the job (passive or active) and their feelings about their presidential experience (negative or positive). Based on that, according to Barber, they fit into one of four categories: passive-negative (Coolidge, Eisenhower); passive-positive (Harding, Taft); active-negative (Wilson, Hoover, Johnson, Nixon); and active-positive (F.D.R., Truman, Kennedy, Ford). TIME asked Barber, who has closely and critically studied Jimmy Carter for three years, to analyze the character of the President-elect. His report...