Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...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...
Best Friends and Club Founders Anne Gordon and Sally Rausch deliver monologues wholly devoid of irony on the brilliance of Republicans from Grant to Hoover and sound like soap opera shrinks...
...hard line. There seems to be no one powerful enough to rein him in. Adam Ulam, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, suspects that "Gromyko is making up for the time he was an errand boy for Khrushchev and Brezhnev." Says Richard F. Staar, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution: "Gromyko has always been a hardliner. He's delighted now to perform that function as the official spokesman for the party...
...both Herbert Hoover and Calvin Coolidge were cigar smokers up to and through the White House years. They could not have been true connoisseurs, since historians have dealt rather harshly with them...