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Person to Person (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Charles Collingwood visits Herbert Hoover at the ex-President's cottage on Florida's Key Largo...
...typically strenuous weeks, Herbert Hoover (whose secretary, explaining his pace, can only say: "He doesn't know he's 85") conferred with his old friend, No. 1 G-Man J. Edgar Hoover, who is no kin, about Manhattan's projected Herbert Hoover Building, new national headquarters of Boys' Clubs of America. Both Hoovers are on its national board, Herbert Hoover its chairman for the past 25 years. Day before the meeting, ex-President Hoover popped up by surprise at a lively Stanford University alumni luncheon in Manhattan. Hoover, a member of Stanford's first graduating...
Before the game, Nixon's entourage drove out to the rolling campus of Stanford University (enrollment: 8,760), Herbert Hoover's alma mater in Palo Alto. Dozens trailed after him into the auditorium, where 1,700 jammed the seats and another 1,000 overflowed out on the steps and lawn. The place exploded in cheers as he strode onstage. At the question period he invited barbed ones ("As I said to Khrushchev in Moscow, I've been insulted by experts-so go right ahead"), and got one. Could a man who used innuendoes about political opponents provide...
...under Republican Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, real per capita national income had climbed by a heady 30%.*In June 1928 the Republican Convention in Kansas City chose a nominee who seemed superbly equipped to carry on the Republican prosperity: Secretary of Commerce Herbert Clark Hoover, 53, a self-made, wealthy, Iowa-born engineer who was the most admired member of Coolidge's drab Cabinet...
...Hoover had going for him not only the Republican record of prosperity but also a deep split in the Democratic Party between I) the rural, Protestant, Prohibitionist bloc that William Jennings Bryan, the Great Commoner, had led until his death in 1925, and 2) the urban bloc, largely Catholic and "wet," mainly concentrated in the East, which Bryan had called "the enemy's country." In their intense suspicion of each other, the two wrangling camps had taken 44 ballots to nominate a compromise presidential candidate in 1920, and an exhausting 103 ballots in 1924. Having lost badly with both...