Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Having Yuri Andropov in control of the Soviet Union is comparable to having had J. Edgar Hoover as President of the U.S. and director of both...
...leaving no record of their conversations. Couldn't Reagan write short notes when he finished his calls? He'd create a mountain of paper, maybe, but 200 years from now his jottings would be invaluable. There followed a minor scholarly disagreement George Nash (The Life of Herbert Hoover, Volume I) mentioned that Hoover was the first President to have a phone in his office. No, countered Arthur Link editor of the Woodrow Wilson papers, there is a photo showing three phones on Wilson's desk. Frank Freidel, biographer of Franklin Roosevelt, reminded them that Benjamin Harrison said...
Freidel made the point that the more he got to know about F.D.R., the better he found him to be as a President. Hatfield contended that Hoover would be judged by history not as a President who ended an era but as a man who began one Nash brought mirth when the discussion turned to the press: Hoover once said that any President should have the right to shoot at least two people a year without explanation...
...White House curators say Hoover was first to have a phone permanently installed on his desk, though phones came to the White House in Rutherford B. Hayes' years...
...News Office makes no effort to understand the "rambling" letters. One, written in multi-colored inks, is addressed to "Former Associates of J. Edgar Hoover." It is a disorganized discussion of mental illness making as much sense as the random change of ink color...