Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intelligence reports, and a special investigatory report ordered by the President, fully documented the fact that the Japanese-American population was no threat; there was a complete absence of factual support for the claims of "fifth column" activity, sabotage, and signalling to Japanese ships. Instead, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had told President Roosevelt that "the necessity for mass evacuation is based primarily upon public and political pressure rather than on factual data." McCloy had no excuses because his were informed decisions. The facts were there, just as they exist now and cannot be ignored by The Crimson...
...wanted our own people," acknowledged White House Counsellor Ed Meese. The nominees, like the commissioners they would replace, are Democrats: Morris B. Abram, former president of Brandeis University and onetime chairman of the United Negro College Fund; John H. Bunzel, senior research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution; and Robert A. Destro, assistant law professor at Catholic University of America. Linda Chavez, assistant to the president of the American Federation of Teachers, was named staff director...
...student petition calls for "an open and reasoned debate among the Stanford community as to the proper role, if any, of the Hoover Institute at Stanford...
...also been a partisan political institution from early on In 1959, as part of a statement of the institute's official purpose Hoover wrote that the center existed to "demonstrate the evils of the doctrines of Karl Marx and protect the American way of life from such ideologies...
...Kennedy], the Board of Directors and I hope to cool the furor and somehow bring Hoover and the university closer together," Kimball said...