Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he took the lead in the 1928 Republican presidential race by winning the New Hampshire primary, Herbert Hoover suddenly found his picture on the cover + of TIME. Historians may debate the impact of that distinction, but Hoover went on to occupy the White House. Since then, dozens of presidential hopefuls have appeared on the magazine's cover, with similarly unknowable results. "When TIME puts a candidate on the cover, we unavoidably become part of the political process," says Nation Editor Walter Isaacson, who edited this week's articles on Michael Dukakis and his New York Democratic-primary victory...
Whether cover exposure will affect a candidacy this election year is not our concern. Just as in Hoover's day, the important thing is to have the right story, and a good one. This week's tale of how Dukakis has virtually sewn up the Democratic nomination makes us comfortable on both counts...
...past, "Herbert Hoover and most of the Presidents since, George Schultz, and the heads of major corporations" have been members of the Bohemian Club, according to an aide at the Stanford News Service...
...said that Hunter S. Thompson held a celebration the night J. Edgar Hoover died in the early '70's. Others joined Thompson in their condemnation of Hoover's unwarranted investigations, which included the harassment of Viet Nam protesters, civil rights activists--including Martin Luther King, whose phones were tapped for years--and anyone else with the wrong politics...
Webster's successor at the FBI, former Federal Judge William S. Sessions, simply inherited these investigations from Webster and cannot be held responsible. Nonetheless, he must be careful not to engage in such intrusive, unconscionable activities. For their part, the American people must be careful not to allow another Hoover to gain the power to restrict their freedoms. The FBI is a public organization designed to protect the American people, not a secretive KGB designed to protect the government...