Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Liddy to Hunt. This is also in Magruder's book although this order is not in Magruder's book: they just said beat me up. Colson called him up. Take advantage of the fact, he said, that there is an antiwar rally at the same time that J. Edgar Hoover is lying in state. This will confuse the public mind that Ellsberg is demonstrating against Hoover. Which is what they told the Cubans--Hunt told the Cubans that they were to protect J. Edgar Hoover's catavault from desecration...
...historic site is under the supervision of the National Park Service, which is creating a Sturbridge Village-like community reminiscent of the West Branch of Hoover's boyhood. Done with imagination and taste, the settlement includes the tiny, whitewashed, two-room house where Hoover was born; a Quaker Meeting House; and a functioning blacksmith shop. Recently the government bought ten little period houses where Park personnel now live. A schoolhouse is soon to be added, and there are plans for putting into operation a working replica of a 19th century farm. Even though many of the original commercial buildings...
...library and the museum are in a low stone building set back from the reconstructed village, accessible yet surprisingly in no way insistent or obtrusively out of character. Since highway signs direct one only to "The Hoover Library," the village at the Historic Site comes as a happy dividend and adds a new dimension to the museum aspect of a presidential facility...
...motor vehicles is obviously an important consideration at each of the presidential facilities I visited. The original provisions have just as obviously proved inadequate. Today, there are three public parking lots at the Truman Library--two of them added since the library opened. There are three lots for the Hoover Historic Site. The two at the Eisenhower Center are clearly over-taxed; a third lot for 300 cars is currently under construction. Each of the three library/museums has a special area designated for what the sign at the Truman Library calls "Buses, Trucks, Campers, Trailers, Motor-cycles." A guard told...
...been presidents of the United States, the overall impression is neither biographical nor chronological. In many instances the idea of the presidency is actually used only as a springboard to exhibit themes of possible intrinsic interest, but certainly with only marginal relevance to the president in question. At the Hoover Museum one of the exhibits displays K'ang Hsi and Ming porcelains collected by Mrs. Hoover between 1899 and 1901 when Hoover, an engineer, (with what a government brochure calls "an international reputation as a `doctor of sick mines'") worked in China. At Independence, Truman's Masonic memorabilia are displayed...