Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Although every President since Herbert Hoover has visited Europe during his term of office, Ronald Reagan's trip is in many ways unprecedented. No U.S. President has ever addressed either the assembled members of the British Parliament or the West German Bundestag. Few Presidents have had to prepare for quite so many questions about their foreign, defense and economic policies. Western Europeans are of many minds as to the ideas the President should stress during his visit. TIME asked five Western European leaders, four of them former Prime Ministers and one a former Finance Minister, to write their views...
...Cornell University's Myron Rush believes that in spite of Andropov's move upward, Chernenko can still make it to the top if Brezhnev survives and is well enough to exercise power for a year or two. Says Rush: "Brezhnev is wary of Andropov. Like J. Edgar Hoover, the KGB man knows all the dirt about the leaders-all the secrets of the Politburo members...
...bubble (19¼ in.), Hollingsworth for balancing a milk bottle on his head while walking 18½ miles (a truly dying art), and Father Hesburgh for accumulating more honorary degrees than anyone else ever has. Next month Hesburgh will surpass Guinness's current record holder, former President Herbert Hoover, who had 89. Hesburgh's 90th will come from Kalamazoo College in Michigan. That looks nice on the resume, but adds up to a problem in finding space for his colorful academic hoods and coming up with acceptance speeches. "It's difficult to tailor my remarks each time...
When President Hoover declared that nobody had actually starved to death in the worsening Depression, MacLeish wrote an impassioned refutation in FORTUNE, where he was a founding writer. It was his mission, as he saw it, to speak out on all contemporary causes: for Roosevelt's New Deal, for the Spanish Republic, against the spread of Nazism. "The victories of tyrants and the resistance of peoples halfway around the world," he wrote in 1939, "are as near as the ticking of the clock on the mantel...
...would have been unthinkable for a brand-new recruit to the Nixon entourage ... pulling off in his third month in office the initiative for and institution of a law enforcement program in the exclusive jurisdiction of such heavyweights as [Attorney General] John Mitchell and [FBI Director] J. Edgar Hoover...