Word: hooverism
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...decade of gloom, many research scientists and health-policy analysts question whether the changes wrought by AIDS activists harm basic research, the public health and perhaps even those who are at risk of acquiring the virus. Says Joel Hay, a health economist and senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution: "Things are out of whack." Three areas merit special concern...
Fuchs' confession and subsequent trial marked a turning point in the history of the cold war. Evidence supplied in the confession led to the arrest of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for what J. Edgar Hoover termed "the crime of the century" and prompted President Harry Truman to launch an all-out program to develop the so-called Super Bomb. Two and a half years later, thanks to the determined efforts of Edward Teller and colleagues at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, the U.S. detonated the first thermonuclear device, beating the Soviets to the H-bomb by more than three years...
...devil should you be quoting Felix Rohatyn, who has an absolutely failed record of doomsday predictions?" asks Milton Friedman, Nobel- prizewinning economist at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. "The U.S. economy is fundamentally very healthy, and there's no reason why the '90s shouldn't be just as good as the '80s, or better. There's no reason why we shouldn't have a decade of rapid growth and relatively low inflation...
...defenders will claim that the average citizen can't understand the necessity of these seemingly trivial investigations. The motive for beginning this long and costly investigation, however, was not a legitimate security concern, but J. Edgar Hoover's paranoia. The FBI had no probable cause and no evidence that librarians were tools of a Soviet conspiracy. Even more disturbing, Sessions still doesn't believe that FBI was doing anything out of the ordinary...
...wrote his books. Richard Nixon huffed off yet again to China after disconnecting his AT&T phone service because the company was sponsoring the TV version of The Final Days, last weekend's account of the end of Watergate and Nixon's presidency. Gerald Ford was at the Herbert Hoover Library in West Branch, Iowa, of all places, addressing a conference called "Farewell to the Chief," a discussion of life after the White House. Expenses paid, of course...