Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cringing coward"; to the California American Legion he was "America's No. 1 Patriot." Ben Hecht said he wrote "like a man honking in a traffic jam." H.L. Mencken lauded him as "an assiduous inventor and popularizer of new words and phrases." Lord Mountbatten and J. Edgar Hoover wrote him fan letters. Ethel Barrymore wondered, "Why is he allowed to live...
...choices and against certain manifestations of state power. For all these things, one must respect him. But given the fact that his campaign is going nowhere, and that the scions of the right--Barry Goldwater, John Tower, Strom Thurmond--are sticking with Nixon, Ashbrook may be relegated to Herbert Hoover-land as a man who stood up for an idea even after its friends had given it up for dead...
...Pope has both pride and profit. He will not say how much the paper makes, but he is building a beachfront mansion near Palm Beach. "People who wouldn't spit on us before," he says, "are clamoring to write stories for us-Congressmen, Cabinet officers, even J. Edgar Hoover...
...most faithful patrons of Washington's Aspen Hill Pet Cemetery is J. Edgar Hoover. Cemetery Director S. Alfred Nash discovered that Mr. FBI has seven little graves there -one with a headstone bearing the inscription "In memory of Spec De Bozo. Born July 3, 1922. Died May 24, 1934. Our best friend." Animal graves indicate something about their owners, says Nash: "A man buries his wife because he has to, but he buries his dog because he wants...
They also were careful not to make specific scapegoats of the police or of such figures as FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover or Attorney General John Mitchell...