Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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INTERRUPTING President Carter's televised talk on the economy last Friday night, a home appliance commercial alerted Americans to "National Hoover Week." Carter's words underscored the sponsor's message. Unlike Hoover, however, this president is perhaps overly reconciled to his historic role. "Depression," Carter assures us. "is just around the corner...
Viorst never says much about the FBI's attempts to "destroy and neutralize the New Left" through its counterintelligence programs. He doesn't mention its plan to divide and dissolve the New Left through a campaign of misinformation, instigation, and harassment. Nor does he mention that J. Edgar Hoover, then director of the FBI and the de facto trigger of American justice, instructed his agents to "prevent the rise of the messiah who could unify and electrify the militant Black nationalist group. Martin Luther King...aspires to this position. King could be a very real pretender for this position should...
Still, even the scientists involved in the latest tests continue to urge caution. In a New England Journal editorial, Dr. Robert Hoover, who reported the National Cancer Institute results, notes that the tests showed only that saccharin had not caused any of the current bladder tumors in patients. Because the sweetener has been in widespread use only since the 1960s, it could have still undiscovered long-range carcinogenic effects on the bladder and other organs. Thus, Hoover warns, "any use by nondiabetic children or pregnant women, heavy use by young women of child-bearing age and excessive use by anyone...
...seek to legitimize themselves by the d'etat, c 'est moi "strategy that makes their own interests inseparable from the well-being of the country itself; disloyalty to one becomes disloyalty to the other. Thus the Nixon Administration had it that its critics were unpatriotic. J. Edgar Hoover used the FBI to try to destroy the lives of "unpatriotic" Americans like Martin Luther King...
...purchase of sugar substitutes and diet drinks may be a harmless voluntary choice by people who then "feel better about their self-image," Hoover said. He emphasized, however, the necessity of "informed decisions," and questioned the use of artificial sweeteners as a food additive...