Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrong with such shows (at least compared to what they compete with except that they have so little to do with the way the FBI actually works Garrow's book, on the other hand, although perhaps too well-written and well-documented, would make an excellent pilot episode for Hoover's FBI. The Real Story...
...Reagan ran into significant groups of protesters on the road. Shivering in the 10° cold, some 2,000 demonstrators, including students, auto workers, Indians and blacks, waved placards outside of Reagan's Bloomington, Minn., rally. Some signs tagged him as PRESIDENT HOOVER. In Iowa, Reagan critics held up antibudget slogans Like NANCY GETS RED DRESSES, WE GET PINK SLIPS. In Indiana, Democratic legislators wore buttons reading "12.4%"-the state's unadjusted December unemployment rate...
...week, and those too proud to beg got nothing. When Hoover said that nobody had starved, FORTUNE magazine used his statement as the title of a bitter dissent: 95 people suffering starvation were admitted to New York City hospitals during 1931, and 20 of them died; 27% of the schoolchildren in Pennsylvania in 1932 were suffering from malnutrition. Roosevelt's first bill for federal relief passed Congress in May ("God save the people of the United States," protested Republican Senator C.L. Beedy of Maine), but the $500 million appropriation had to be disbursed through the states. By nightfall...
...immense importance of radio as a means to reach and unite people, and with his sonorous voice he brilliantly exploited the new medium in the periodic "fireside chats" that always began: "My friends . . ." Roosevelt was equally adept at manipulating the press. He invented the modern press conference, canceling Hoover's stiff insistence on written questions and inviting White House reporters to gather around his desk for bantering but far-ranging exchanges on his new programs...
...American people responded. At the White House mail room, where two or three functionaries had dealt with fewer than 800 letters a day in the Hoover era, 22 clerks were swamped by nearly 50,000 letters after fireside chats during Roosevelt's first