Word: hooverisms
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...Harvard professors can claim that they have been compared to Indiana Jones, John Kenneth Galbraith and Herbert Hoover...
...think he's doing a great deal of good--he's very balanced," says Dennis L. Bark, a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institute and author of a recently published two-volume history of West Germany...
...both European and Russian Studies, and since Brown President Vartan Gregorian is said to have close ties to Soviet officials, many believed Gorbachev would accept one of the invitations. As it turns out, Gorby snubbed both Harvard and Brown, instead choosing to visit Stanford, home of the notoriously conservative Hoover Institute. Gorbachev said he chose Stanford because his foreign minister was impressed with the Hoover Institute's work, but observers said Gorby was especially eager to visit Hoover because it has historically been so anti-Soviet...
...myth now firmly established is that some Fort Wayne party men chose | Quayle because of his looks for the thankless task of running against eight- term Democratic Congressman Ed Roush in 1976. Quayle was recently introduced to a board meeting of the Hoover Institution as one who volunteered to "fall on his sword" in that 1976 campaign. But Walter Helmke, the G.O.P. candidate in 1974, says that the idea of Roush's invincibility is nonsense. "He only beat me by 8,000 votes, and that was in the post-Watergate election when Republicans did badly. When Dan ran against Roush...
...From the days of Herbert Hoover down through Joe Malone, the Republicans have always said, we can't afford it," said Keverian, a native of Everett...