Word: hooverness
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...before it was over. NBC called the winner at 8:15 p.m. E.S.T., and the loser conceded while Americans were still standing in line at polling booths in much of the country. In a savage repudiation of a sitting President not seen since F.D.R. swept away Herbert Hoover in the midst of the Great Depression, Americans chose Ronald Wilson Reagan, at 69 the oldest man ever to be elected President, to replace Jimmy Carter in the White House...
...other top White House posts, the job of chief domestic affairs adviser will probably go to Martin Anderson, a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and an expert on welfare. A flexible conservative, Anderson played a major part in persuading Nixon to establish the volunteer army. Michael Deaver, another trusted aide, will be given a post that keeps him close to the new President and allows him to monitor Reagan's public performances...
...Reagan, the Kemp-Roth tax cut, an end to the Environmental Protection Agency, the death of the Equal Rights Amendment, a one-sided partnership between business and government. In short, the restoration of the same American dream that once made tranquil the sleep of Calvin Coolidge but haunted Herbert Hoover...
John and David are the kind of people that make Joseph Zieba, attorney at law and Republican county chairman, stop chewing his gum for just a minute and smile his Hoover smile. Zieba's been getting a lot of calls this year from Democrats, giving the gray inflatable elephant perched atop his law files a lot to smile about. "Even Eisenhower didn't carry Lorain," Zieba says, but things are looking up this year. The Puerto Ricans (almost 18 per cent of Lorain) and the Blacks are "lackadaisical voters who've put all their eggs in Carter's basket...
...sell them advanced fighter aircraft and less tempted to pressure them into negotiating with the mainland on reunification. i Japan is content with Carter, largely because officials are afraid that Reagan would set tougher limits on their exports to the U.S. Reagan Adviser Glenn Campbell, director of the Hoover Institution, dismayed some Japanese by suggesting last week in Tokyo that Japan take a more active military role to protect its oil shipments from the Persian Gulf. But two other U.S. Asian allies, Thailand and the Philippines, lean toward Reagan. In the Philippines, says a local political analyst, the government...