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...handsome young New York aristocrat with a politically useful name spotlighted the man he wanted to see as the next President of the U.S. Said Franklin Delano Roosevelt of Herbert Hoover: "He is certainly a wonder and I wish we could make him President . . . There could not be a better one." By 1932, no two men lived in colder enmity. In F.D.R.'s view. Hoover had become a dragon who was devouring the common man. To Hoover, Roosevelt was at worst an economic madman, at best a mere "featherduster" (the nickname had been devised by kindly friends who considered...
...admirers are bound to be distressed by the way in which Schlesinger weights his scales with selected evidence to drag down businessmen and to hoist F.D.R. No one can reasonably deny the errors and terrors of the era. But in Schlesinger's version, financiers and members of the Hoover Administration almost without exception are boobs or crooks or both; their reluctance to recognize the Depression for what it was, and to force more stringent Government action, is attributed to nothing more than blindness or greed. And Schlesinger's set pieces on the U.S. scene during the Depression read...
...remove civil service protection from some policy-making positions inspired Democratic cries of "patronage raid," the major point against the change does not involve the spoils system. Eisenhower, who has a fairly clean hound's tooth in patronage matters, appears to have been acting more under obligation to the Hoover Commission than to the GOP state chairmen...
...Even Mr. Hoover would be alarmed at such a development. He has said, "We must make civil service so attractive, so secure, so free from frustrations, so dignified that the right kind of men and women will make it a career...
Special Broadcast (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Commemorating Herbert Hoover's 40 years of service...