Word: hooverness
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...there were endless switchbacks and crosscurrents of time. Reagan stood for the past in a different way. The Democrats said he represented the past, populated by such candlesnuffers as Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. In the magic lantern of his own mythos, Reagan saw himself in a Norman Rockwell vision, an image of a clean and wholesome earlier America...
Mondale hammered at Reagan as the first President since Hoover not to have met with a Soviet leader. Then Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko came to call and somewhat stilled that talk. Reagan, who only 19 months before had lashed out at the "evil empire," had managed to neutralize the old anxiety that he is trigger-happy. In any case, the nation was at peace...
...tells Andrei Gromyko [NATION, Oct. 8] that, from the days of Vladimir Lenin to the current leadership of Konstantin Chernenko, Moscow's policy has been to promote world revolution. Maybe so, but this philosophy did not concern Americans before World War II. As an engineering student during the Hoover Administration, I had Soviet students in my classes. I also knew American engineers who had helped design and build a steel plant in the Soviet Union. After World War II, the two countries became antagonists in a cold war that continues to this day. Perhaps it is time to recall...
...open road, most of the nation dutifully drives at 55 m.p.h., willingly undergoes searches before boarding planes, humbly douses cigarettes from time to time. Even those who storm against gun control require the collectivism of lobbies to make their individual stands. The term rugged individualism was coined by Herbert Hoover only a decade before the onset of Big Government and of a war where victory depended on America's sense of belonging to the world. Behold two rugged individuals of popular culture, the Lone Ranger and Sam Spade, helping the weak and troubled, and keeping communities stable and intact...
This is not to say that there aren't very important reasons for supporting one side. As Mr. Bush commented in the following debate, we are presented with the clearest choice in over 50 years. (That, by the way, was the Hoover-Roosevelt contest. It would be interesting to know what side Mr. Bush was suggesting we should have supported...) The real issues are Ronald Reagan's War on the Poverty Stricken, his stance on civil rights, his politicization of religion, his destruction of the environment, and certainly not least, his lack of a foreign policy...