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...Commerce Department reached its point of greatest influence during the Hoover presidency, when Secretary Robert Lamont actively helped make U.S. economic and foreign trade policy. Since then, those functions have been largely transferred to the State Department and the Council of Economic Advisers. Under Stans' stewardship, at least part of the department's remaining business constituency has drifted away. Black businessmen, who received promises of major aid during Nixon's campaign, distrust Stans' blunt conservatism; at the N.A.A.C.P. convention last month, he was roundly jeered. Big businessmen who want to get something done in Washington bypass...
...Boise, Idaho. Though he was only 27, hard-hustling Morrison talked himself into a partnership with 50-year-old Contractor Morris Knudsen in 1912. Their starting capital of $600 in cash was pyramided into a global $500 million-a-year building concern. Among Morrison's construction triumphs: Hoover Dam and portions of the St. Lawrence Seaway...
...Scurrilous, slanted, unfair and sensationalized . . . designed to undermine public confidence in me," sizzled FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover after reading an article in the National Observer. What particularly irked Hoover was the retelling of an anecdote from former Attorney General Francis Biddle's 1962 book In Brief Authority. It seems an FBI agent had gone to tap the telephone of Left-Wing Longshoreman Harry Bridges and dropped an incriminating FBI letterhead during his visit. Biddle and Hoover rushed to the office of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to explain. Tickled, F.D.R. supposedly slapped Hoover on the back and said...
...Kiss for Hoover. Three other White House brides attended. Luci Johnson Nugent came with her husband Pat, who confessed that he wept when Eddie and Tricia walked down the aisle (he wept at his own wedding too). Luci at one point startled FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by planting a resounding kiss on his cheek. Lynda Johnson Robb and her husband Chuck were in deep conversation with Ralph Nader. The sentimentality of the day was relieved by gleefully acerbic Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 87, a White House bride in 1906. Asked by TIME'S Bonnie Angelo if the wedding brought...
Over 400 guests attended the event. They ranged from Ralph Nader and J. Edgar Hoover to Art Linkletter and Billy Graham...