Word: hooverizer
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...only with cool analysis, efficient hard work, and political skill: and both have unusual capacity for precisely this kind of exercise. Both analyzed the problems of the nation in their acceptance speeches extremely well. Both concentrated on the future and left most of the usual nonsense about Herbert Hoover and Harry Truman, the party of the depression and the party of war, to their backward-looking brethren...
...policies of Nixon and Benson and Dirksen and Goldwater. But this nation cannot afford such a luxury. Perhaps we could afford a Coolidge following Harding. And perhaps we could afford a Pierce following Fillmore. But after Buchanan this nation needed Lincoln; after Taft we needed a Wilson; and after Hoover we needed Franklin Roosevelt." Without saying where this put him, Kennedy riffled back again through history for Nixon's benefit. "The Republican nominee, of course, is a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the party of the past-the party of memory...
...Herbert Hoover was aggressively hostile to facts he did not like, and lacking in "sensitiveness toward public affairs." ¶ Franklin D. Roosevelt, under surface shallowness hid "a deep streak of the Dutch." He followed a principle of polarity, i.e., doing two opposite things at the same time (as Frankfurter explains it: "You build a fireproof house and nevertheless take out fire insurance...
...coming up with solutions. When Donahue asked Mrs. Hobby's approval of the crime series, she replied: "It has an aura of the common about it. Cloak it with a mantle of decency." Recalls Donahue: "I started each piece out with a quotation about public service-J. Edgar Hoover or something-then shot the works...
Thank goodness for your April 18 article, "The Defeat of the Happy Warrior." It's about time someone dispelled the popular belief that Governor Smith's Roman Catholicism alone caused his defeat. I agree wholeheartedly that no Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt included, could have won over Hoover. The Republican Party at the time was riding the crest of the prosperity wave which would have swamped any opposition...