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...last three times this match-up has occurred ended in disasters for Democrats--like Mondale's loss to Reagan in 1984, McGovern's to Nixon in 1972, and Stevenson's to Eisenhower in 1956. The last Democrat to succeed in this situation was Franklin Roosevelt '04, who beat Hoover...
America's shoudl be too, both in the figurative and the literal sense. The last time Republicans controlled the White House for four straight terms was from 1920 to 1932. That reign ended after Hoover stewarded the country into its worst depression ever. The worst since then, of course, is the current recession, which has hit during Bush's watch...
...such as "sublime" to describe the play of his team certainly set him apart from those in the pro-football fraternity, whose grammatical constructions often drift toward the martial, monosyllabic and scatological. No less a personage than former Secretary of State George Shultz, now penning his memoirs at the Hoover Institution on Stanford's campus, says, "I have come to admire him as a great intellect...
...William Sessions is under scrutiny for violating relatively minor ethical rules, like questionable business travel with his wife. But Sarah Munford, Sessions' personal assistant, was put on leave and escorted out of the J. Edgar Hoover Building on Thursday because of the more serious charge that she had exceeded her authority. Munford denied it, contending she was "an unfortunate pawn" in a power struggle. Sessions' lawyer says Justice was engaging in a campaign of leaks against his client. Alice Sessions complained to the San Antonio (Texas) Light that her husband "was waking up out of a stupor, realizing...
Diamond eventually went on to tenure at Columbia as a professor of sociology and history. But his own early run-in with the power of the anti-communist FBI in the J. Edgar Hoover era is a telling example of how an unchecked government agency can trample individual lives...