Word: hoover
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...chance that Carter might be defeated after achieving nomination is statistically somewhat greater. Seven elected Presidents who sought a second term and were nominated by their party were then defeated at the polls beginning with John Adams in 1800 and running through Herbert Hoover...
...contacts with the FBI in 1953 imply a much earlier and more thorough understanding of FBI operations than Kissinger claimed in his defense against Morton Halperin's charges of illegal FBI wiretapping. Kissinger supported his case by arguing that he had taken then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's word that the taps were legal...
President Calvin Coolidge assured the country that it could "regard the present with satisfaction and anticipate the future with optimism." His successor, Herbert Hoover, said that the U.S. would soon see the end of poverty. Only a few public figures raised doubts. One of them was Financier Paul Warburg, who warned in March 1929 that unless the Federal Reserve acted to curb speculation, there would be a collapse and "a general depression involving the entire country...
...billion. The '20s real estate boom was centered in Florida, had created millionaires and seemed to prove, then as now, that one rarely loses money buying land. Even President Carter's insistence last week that the U.S. had a "good solid economy" stirred echoes of Herbert Hoover, another engineer President, who said two days after the Black Thursday of 1929 that the "fundamental business of the country is sound...
Presidential libraries are a 20th century phenomenon. The papers of 23 Presidents are housed in the Library of Congress in Washington. But Presidents starting with Hoover have preferred that their papers rest in their own libraries. Some scholars have argued that it is more convenient to centralize presidential collections, rather than scatter them across the nation in what Columbia Historian Henry Graff terms "the pyramids of our times." Yet, as the National Archives points out, a quadrennial flood of documents by the millions would probably overwhelm any single institution. Also, as one Government archivist concedes, "not all scholars live...