Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moral and practical necessity to develop a strong defense because the Soviets are already doing it," said Teller, a researcher at Stanford University's Hoover Institute...
Last May, Reagan made yet another move: to replace Berry, Ramirez and Saltzman with three other Democrats, putatively closer to the President's way of thinking. They are Morris Abram, former president of Brandeis University; John Bunzel, senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution; and Robert Destro, law professor at Catholic University. Critics who had held still for the 1981 firings howled that Reagan was trying to pack the commission with a majority that would uncritically approve his civil rights record, and lately have questioned whether he has legal power to dismiss commissioners (the law is unclear). The Senate...
Even Captain Hoover, as gung-ho as he seems, knows the horrors. "I've lost a good friend," he said. A few days ear lier, the of his fellow captains was killed by sniper fire at the airport. For Hoover last week, three days before his head quarters was wiped out, the losses still seemed of emotionally manageable proportions. Casualties had happened one or a few at a time. "No one likes to hear about Marines being killed or wounded," Hoover said. "I've known half of the men who have been killed, one particularly well. That...
...year 2027. Though Helms claimed he wanted to know what the tapes might say about King's association with Communism, Helms' critics suspected that he was most interested in what the FBI had learned about King's active private life; the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, who hated King, had planted many of his bugs under hotel beds. After the court denied his motion, Helms resumed the attack on the Senate floor...
Face red with fury, Kennedy shouted: "I am appalled at this attempt to misappropriate the memory of my brother[s] . . . If Robert Kennedy were alive today, he would be the first person to say that Hoover's reckless campaign against Martin Luther King was a shame and a blot on American history...