Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second place, and Washington fell to third. Also rated as great: Jefferson, who supplanted Wilson in the top four. Rated as near great: Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, Jackson, Truman. Above average: John Adams, Lyndon Johnson, Eisenhower, Polk, Kennedy, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Cleveland. Average: McKinley, Taft, Van Buren, Hoover, Hayes, Arthur, Ford...
Older historians, it turns out, were more lenient in judging Presidents. Toughest on Hoover, for instance, were those under 40 and easiest were those over 65, the very children of the Depression so often blamed on Hoover. Women historians (only 59 were tabulated) were generally harsher in judging Presidents than the men. For whatever reasons, they were particularly down on Polk and Washington. They rated Carter, L.B.J., Grant and Kennedy higher than...
...letter was written in response to a Board of Trustees warning that a Hoover-administered center "has little chance of approval." And it appears to rule out any chance that a Reagan complex will come to Stanford unless the Board accepts in its entirely the plan proposed by Hoover and endorsed by the White House...
Signed by Presidential Counselor Edwin Meese and addressed to Board President William Kimball, the letter charges that University President Donald Kennedy has broken a longtime commitment to the Presidential library complex by opposing the idea of a Hoover-run center...
...Frankly, I do not understand the specific reasons why you and some of the other trustees apparently are opposed to having the proposed center for public affairs administered by the Hoover Institution," said Meese in the letter...