Word: hooverisms
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Roosevelt avoided the pop-culture simile, butmade much the same point by comparing Weld toformer President Herbert Hoover...
Roosevelt compared Weld to former President Herbert Hoover in his declaration speech...
...snide edge not found in the original. The devil says he's been busy designing an Edsel, the Ford fiasco that went onto the market two years after the show first opened. When he envisions a gallery of great lovers through history, he mentions FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, a sacred cow when the original show opened, and Hoover's companion and heir Clyde Tolson...
Well, it looks like the chickens have come home to roost, so to speak. Twelve days left until my thesis is due, and I still haven't given any written work to my advisor. True, we talk a lot, but what was it that J. Edgar Hoover used to say..."The time for talk has passed." Or something like that...
...account of the relevance of the sexual exploits of the hero of the fellow-that-didn't-inhale "to our country's politics," see Anthony Summers' Official and Confidential, where we learn of why RFK allowed J. Edgar Hoover to bug Martin Luther King's bedroom to avoid exposure of JFK's sexual exploits, for example. Cambridge