Word: hooverisms
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There is no reason to sneer at commitment to the community. But to think that government action can be effectively replaced with private initiative is dangerously shortsighted. (Remember the successes of that great champion of voluntary action, Herbert Hoover.) For all its faults, politics is also a means by which the mighty power of government can be turned to good ends rather than bad. For young Americans to neglect political involvement in favor of private measures, deciding not to vote because they gave at the office, is to invite those with special interests to raid the public treasury and subvert...
Those two sensational items are the ones that have made the papers in the last couple of days. Summers, a British hack of the Fleet Street school, makes his living buzzing around the carcasses of high American scandal. His "Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover" had the head of the FBI dressing up in ballgowns. If you read Summers' Nixon book more carefully (I don't urge it), you find, among other things, that the author may be among the half dozen people on earth who believe that Alger Hiss may in fact have been innocent...
Conversely, Herbert Hoover was a gleamingly successful citizen right up until the fall of 1929, when his reputation followed the economy downward in a disastrous spiral. And so on. The presidency retains a mystique of transformation. The office is still a variation on the American theme of new beginnings. Americans might actually find it attractive if George W. Bush's only accomplishment by age 40 had been to quit drinking...
FLORA (SHELDON) BUSH 1872-1920 Raised her children in the Ohio county where she grew up SAMUEL PRESCOTT BUSH 1863-1948 An Ohio steel magnate and adviser to President Hoover; believed in corporate paternalism like employee housing and compensation...
...KWRU organizers planned Bushville both as a high-visibility reminder of poverty and a disparaging comparison between George W. Bush and Herbert Hoover. During Hoover's presidency the Depression struck, sending the poor into shantytowns which they dubbed "Hoovervilles" out of contempt for the president. With both sides hoping to avoid any ugliness, KWRU lawyers and police officials negotiated a minute-to-minute truce as the march moved slowly from Bushville's Northern Philadelphia ghetto toward the main downtown thoroughfares connecting Center City to the First Union Center, where the convention would begin that night...