Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maintaining and expanding old programs--"the platform we adopted in '76 was pretty good, and it just hasn't been used yet," Fraser said. To Harrington and the 38 socialist delegtes at the convention who caucused Wednesday, the party must "go as far beyond FDR as he went beyond Hoover, to a new a much more radical liberalism...
...risk, moreover, may not have been worth taking. Ford, after all, was the first incumbent President since Herbert Hoover to lose an election, and part of his appeal today is due to nostalgia. In hindsight, particularly because of Carter's shortcomings, Ford seems to have been a better President than he was considered at the time. But he is at odds with Reagan on many questions ranging from the ERA to the Panama Canal. At 67, he could offer the 69-year-old Reagan no help on the age issue; some voters might even have found a Reagan-Ford ticket...
...wasn't old enough to vote in the 1928 Presidential election, but I got steamed up about it. At home I had won a prize for an essay supporting Hoover and at College on election night we all went to the Union where Albert Bushnell Hart gave the returns and told us what they meant. It was a sad day for Al Smith. A year later, the Great Depression was on. On the day of the Stock Market Crash there were no Transcripts or Travelers left in the Business School dining hall. Those businessmen, including President Hoover's youngest...
...seen me through senior year and generals), tossed all my college notes into Whitman Hall's second-floor trash barrel, and looked forward to the rest of my life." But the outside world was anything but promising then. The stock market had crashed the previous fall, and Herbert Hoover--still in the Oval Office--was formulating the radical Depression plan suggested by his assessment that "nobody in this country is starving to death." But people were starving to death. And jobs and money were scarce...
Buckley then wrote to Hoover after the event, stressing, "I don't think you can possibly realize the good that was done here last night...You have contributed more than a dozen classes and a score of periodicals to the enlightening of the student mind on all-important question [sic]." Attached was a blind copy from Buckley of a letter he wrote to Simon suggesting that the Crimson president "exercise a little control over the flamboyance of some of your men." Buckley continued to send blind copies of his correspondence with Simon to FBI officials...