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Besides Thurmond the list of YAF award winners still includes Herbert Hoover, John Wayne, John Dos Passos, and conservative editor M. Stanton Evans...
...that so boldly distinguishes us from the other side. Any other group, we mean to say, could quickly and competently--even if quite unconsciously--be drawn into the value system of those people, much as an unthinking speck of muck can be unwittingly scooped into the maw of a Hoover suction machine. But not the YAF: their duty is clear-cut. They must go, in our name, to Helsinki, to watch, observe, calculate, devise, scheme--and perhaps (who can say?) even learn something about the realities of international politics...
...took over Russia, Roosevelt came closest to the Soviet idea of what a U.S. President should be. He won Russian gratitude for establishing diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union immediately after he took office in 1933 (Democrat Wilson had "intervened" against the new Bolshevik regime; Republicans Harding, Coolidge and Hoover had refused to recognize it). Stalin in the '30s gave F.D.R. ambiguous praise as "one of the strongest figures among all the captains of the contemporary capitalist world." But the Soviet press was generally scornful of the New Deal, occasionally deriding Roosevelt as "a bourgeois politician," and Roosevelt...
...Herbert Hoover-We have but one police force, the American woman...
...grey limestone building on Massachusetts Avenue's embassy row with 52 bedrooms, three big dining rooms, an auditorium seating 300, a billiard room -and, some braggarts say, the capital's worst food. The club's members have included Presidents William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover, along with twelve Nobel and 20 Pulitzer prizewinners...