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...will take us many long strides" toward Franklin Roosevelt's dream of "a decent and dignified home" for every family. Johnson capped the week with a bipartisan signin' and speakin', this time approving a bill to create a national historical site in memory of Herbert Hoover at West Branch, Iowa, where Hoover was born and now lies buried. Johnson invited every big G.O.P. name he could think of, but the notice was short and most sent regrets. Unfazed, Johnson paid eloquent tribute to Hoover as a "big man," a "good man," and "above all a devoted...
...commingling geometry, Hebrew characters and dislocated figures in iconographic puzzles, were rejected as not naturalistic enough by the Moscow Art Theater. And so, having rejected all the isms of Paris, Chagall found himself rejected by Communism. In 1922, Chagall left Russia with $20, clad in khaki trousers provided by Hoover relief. Bella and his six-year-old daughter Ida followed. He never returned...
...those who like their Bond stirred and not unsettlingly shaken, ABC is aiming somewhere between 007 and 77 Sunset Strip. The F.B.I. will serve up ex-77 Sunset Stripper Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as an agent so gosh-darn clean cut that J. Edgar Hoover has grunted his first TV seal of approval...
Debate was scant, since there was virtually unanimous agreement as to the wisdom of having federal jurisdiction over crimes against the President. Minnesota Republican Clark MacGregor reminded the House that FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover told the Warren Commission that if Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald had been held by the FBI instead of the Dallas cops, "I do not believe he would have been killed by Ruby...
...Herbert Hoover got his in 1917; Franklin Roosevelt '04 was honored in 1929; Dwight Eisenhower picked one up in 1946; and John Kennedy '40 stopped by ten years later, when he was still junior Senator from Massachusetts. All of these doctors, it will be noticed, were given degrees before they assumed the office of the Presidency--the same holds true for George Washington LL.D. (hon.) 1776, John Adams 1755, LL.D. (hon.) 1781, and Thomas Jefferson LL.D. (hon.) 1787--and no doubt the Corporation had second thoughts later on. But there are precedents: Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson, Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant...