Word: hooverism
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...they have to be dead," Mondale noted. "It's got to be Roosevelt or Truman or Kennedy. They're even picking my old friend Humphrey; he's turning over in his grave. Why don't they leave our own heroes alone and honor their own-Hoover and Nixon and Agnew...
Mondale has been especially tough on Reagan for his failure to improve relations with the Soviets. He has effectively attacked him as the first President since Eisenhower who has failed to negotiate some measure of arms control, and the first since Hoover who has failed even to meet with top Soviet officials. He has taken the President to task for approving offers in arms-control negotiations that Reagan's own military advisers warn have no chance of Soviet acceptance...
Hedgecock, the indictment charged, illegally received $357,150 for his 1983 campaign from Currency Trader J. David Dominelli and his business partner-girlfriend, Nancy Hoover. The money was allegedly funneled into the campaign through a political consulting firm set up by Hedgecock's friend Tom Shepard. The four defendants face prison terms of up to eight years and $5,000 fines if they are convicted. With the election only five weeks away, a steadfast Hedgecock said to a crowd of,voters, "I'm on the job every day, seeking the best for my city...
...early idol was Herbert Hoover, whom the magazine briefly touted as a presidential candidate for 1920. By the 1930s, the editorials were explicitly socialist. In 1946 former Vice President Henry Wallace became editor, before his left-wing campaign for President. But by 1952, the magazine had returned to the Democratic Party mainstream. Almost never profitable, it drew its funding from a succession of wealthy sponsors and its opinions from editors, including Walter Lippmann and Edmund Wilson. Peretz, a Harvard social sciences teacher who inherited some money and whose wife is an heiress, revamped both the magazine's politics...
...will have the same kind of impact. Being a Catholic is no longer a factor. If a woman gets elected, it will make it a lot easier for future female politicians to succeed." The first Catholic nominated for President, however, was Al Smith, in 1928, who lost to Herbert Hoover; it was 32 years before another Catholic was nominated and won the White House...