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...Bill Hopkins gives a melancholy sigh when he reads about the security barriers around the White House and about the huge budget ($23 million) and staff (322) that serve the President. As a clerk for the Bureau of Naturalization in Herbert Hoover's Administration, he used to amble out of his office on G Street for lunch as just another pedestrian with no security pass other than his amiable attitude. He would walk all the way through the old State, War and Navy Building (now the Executive Office Building), climb the steps beside the West Wing of the White...
...joined the White House correspondence staff in 1931, answering presidential mail and taking shorthand. Herbert Hoover had an appointive staff of four people, plenty large enough to run the place in those days. Occasionally Hopkins would get a hurry-up call to come to the White House late at night to transcribe Hoover's writing, which he would do on the spot. During the day in his office Hoover would stand I with a cigar in his mouth and his back to Hopkins and dictate. Hopkins had a tough time extracting I phrases muffled by Hoover's cigar...
...this wide array of research is work on the relationship between the FBI and Harvard, which Diamond believes was quite close on the basis of documents he has obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. One such document- a memo from a Boston official to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover--reads: "It is noted that as a result of [half line deleted] on this date, arrangements have been completed for a most cooperative and understanding association between the Bureau and Harvard University...
Most ideas that work their way up to the presidency have been around for a while in one form or another. A lot of the nostrums for the Depression, for instance, were debated in the days of Herbert Hoover. But the man who got serious about them and acted on them, Franklin Roosevelt, became known as the New Thinker. John Kennedy did not dream up the Peace Corps. He swiped the idea from Congressman Henry Reuss and Senator Hubert Humphrey, who, of course, borrowed it from church dusted-off, replated New Deal...
...could be groovy as well as homespun. But what Reagan has done--and it must be seen as some kind of bizarre triumph--has been to reclaim the remnants of the symbolism of the right: the we're-the-really-good-guys syndrome that descends directly from Jefferson and Hoover. And he has accommodated them to the new ground of television, where the heart of the present American lies. We are an America of exit polls, of projection counts, or personality interviews, Reagan knows just how to capture that side of us. He strategically buys time on Saturdays to talk...