Word: hooverness
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...bubble (19¼ in.), Hollingsworth for balancing a milk bottle on his head while walking 18½ miles (a truly dying art), and Father Hesburgh for accumulating more honorary degrees than anyone else ever has. Next month Hesburgh will surpass Guinness's current record holder, former President Herbert Hoover, who had 89. Hesburgh's 90th will come from Kalamazoo College in Michigan. That looks nice on the resume, but adds up to a problem in finding space for his colorful academic hoods and coming up with acceptance speeches. "It's difficult to tailor my remarks each time...
When President Hoover declared that nobody had actually starved to death in the worsening Depression, MacLeish wrote an impassioned refutation in FORTUNE, where he was a founding writer. It was his mission, as he saw it, to speak out on all contemporary causes: for Roosevelt's New Deal, for the Spanish Republic, against the spread of Nazism. "The victories of tyrants and the resistance of peoples halfway around the world," he wrote in 1939, "are as near as the ticking of the clock on the mantel...
...would have been unthinkable for a brand-new recruit to the Nixon entourage ... pulling off in his third month in office the initiative for and institution of a law enforcement program in the exclusive jurisdiction of such heavyweights as [Attorney General] John Mitchell and [FBI Director] J. Edgar Hoover...
...served in the late 1940s on the first Hoover Commission on U S Government Organization after working in the Office of Strategic Service during World...
Wills' point in rehashing all this is to claim that J.F.K.'s private behavior crippled him and his brother Robert in their public roles. Neither the President nor his Attorney General could cross or restrain FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, for fear of what he knew and might leak...