Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thru the picture. Fantasing myself as the Alek but without "my brothers." Just "a little of the old ultra violence." I've decided Wallace would have the honor of-what would you call it? It seems I would have done better for myself to kill old G-man Hoover. In death he lays with Presidents. They never heard of Wallace in Russia or anyplace. Editors will say: "Wallace dead? Who cares." If something big in Nam flares up, it'll end up at the bottom of the first page. He won't get more than three minutes...
...question of guaranteed annual income, the differences may be in rhetoric and degree rather than in principle. In addition, Nixon seemed to be ignoring 1964, when Barry Goldwater proclaimed "a choice, not an echo." Perhaps more significant, the President was forgetting 1932, the year when F.D.R. defeated Herbert Hoover in one of the deep-sea changes of American life. Whether McGovern's program would affect the U.S. as deeply as the New Deal did is an open question. The issues of 1972 have not yet been clearly drawn. Only after McGovern has solidly staked out his positions will...
...years as head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover stoutly - some said male chauvinistically - refused to allow women as special agents. Tracking down Dillingers and other enemies foreign and domestic was man's work, he believed. He continued the ban even in recent years when the FBI's Most Wanted List came to include women, among them Angela Davis and the Weatherman's Bernardine Dohrn...
...After Hoover's death last spring, Acting Director L. Patrick Gray decided to abandon the men-only policy. Last week two women were accepted for the FBI's special-agent training program - Susan Lynn Roley, 25, a former Marine Corps lieutenant, and Joanne...
...abortion and in favor of aid to parochial schools and relief of the property tax. He moved, however belatedly, to control inflation, and he may yet achieve a ceasefire in Viet Nam before Election Day. History too is on Nixon's side; no incumbent President since Herbert Hoover has lost a bid for a second term...