Word: hooverism
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...Senate: after several months in Washington, he called the Senate "ridiculous" and later mused that "the trouble with Nixon is those two Nazis [Haldeman and Ehrlichman] he keeps around him." He displayed little respect for Nixonian legislation: "The program this Administration is pushing is appropriate for Herbert Hoover...
...Federal Trade Commission, Weinberger did such a good job reorganizing the agency as the consumer's friend that he even won praise from Ralph Nader, rare for a Nixon appointee. When the President made him deputy budget director six months later, Cap Weinberger arrived sounding like Herbert Hoover. In the midst of a recession, he preached the gospel of balanced budgets. Yet as a good soldier, he proceeded to preside over a string of job-creating deficits that left even some liberals bemused...
...Ordeal and Triumph, on which the movie Patton was partially based, and The Broken Seal, which was one basis for the movie Tora! Tora! Tora! He has also contracted, for an advance of more than $150,000, to write two books for Doubleday, one of them on J. Edgar Hoover. But first, he proposes to expand his Bormann material into a book for Simon & Schuster, with whom he contracted last week for an advance of more than $100,000 (on top of the $100,000 that the newspaper series will probably earn him). The book's working title...
...charges, Bruce was sick--but not with the diseases the grand juries called him to account for. He was a symptom of the biased, uptight, closed-fisted society he satirized: if there were peace and tranquility, Bruce commented, then he would be there in the unemployment line with Herbert Hoover and Jonas Salk...
...Kissinger." As the nation's foreign-trade spokesman, he is out to prove that "trade policy is foreign policy, trade policy is security policy, trade policy is domestic policy." After less than a year in the job, he is wielding more clout than any Commerce Secretary since Herbert Hoover. But, says Peterson: "I keep a portrait of Hoover hanging over the fireplace in my office to remind me of the hazards of ambition...