Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the reign of the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, the agency solved crimes the old-fashioned way, by simply investigating them. Today's FBI agent is more likely to resort to undercover tactics, gaining evidence by posing as a criminal. For fiscal year 1977, the FBI budgeted $1 million for undercover operations, excluding salaries and overheads; by fiscal year 1984, that figure had grown to $12.5 million. In the twelve months ending Sept. 30, 1983, FBI scams resulted in 1,328 indictments and 816 felony convictions. The notable FBI operation that triggered the committee study was Abscam...
...Bill Hopkins gives a melancholy sigh when he reads about the security barriers around the White House and about the huge budget ($23 million) and staff (322) that serve the President. As a clerk for the Bureau of Naturalization in Herbert Hoover's Administration, he used to amble out of his office on G Street for lunch as just another pedestrian with no security pass other than his amiable attitude. He would walk all the way through the old State, War and Navy Building (now the Executive Office Building), climb the steps beside the West Wing of the White...
...joined the White House correspondence staff in 1931, answering presidential mail and taking shorthand. Herbert Hoover had an appointive staff of four people, plenty large enough to run the place in those days. Occasionally Hopkins would get a hurry-up call to come to the White House late at night to transcribe Hoover's writing, which he would do on the spot. During the day in his office Hoover would stand I with a cigar in his mouth and his back to Hopkins and dictate. Hopkins had a tough time extracting I phrases muffled by Hoover's cigar...
...could raise revenue and simultaneously lower tax rates. One of the most sweeping strategies of this kind is the so-called flat-tax proposal put before Congress last year by Democratic Senator Dennis DeConcini of Arizona. Devised by Economist Robert Hall and Political Scientist Alvin Rabushka of the Hoover Institution at Stanford, the plan would eliminate all deductions and tax everyone at the same rate, 19%. Currently, rates go as high as 50%. The Hall-Rabushka proposal would let all taxpayers subtract a "personal allowance" from their income that would amount to $8,500 for a family of four. This...
...this wide array of research is work on the relationship between the FBI and Harvard, which Diamond believes was quite close on the basis of documents he has obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. One such document- a memo from a Boston official to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover--reads: "It is noted that as a result of [half line deleted] on this date, arrangements have been completed for a most cooperative and understanding association between the Bureau and Harvard University...