Word: hooverness
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Like FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the General is something of a Washington institution. He has been associated with the Selective Service System since its infancy in 1936. In fact, he was promoted to brigadier general in 1940 for his work in planning the system. He is the modern system's first and only director...
...virtually an independent agent, able to defy the President and the Attorney General on such matters as his directive. His loyal supporters in the House and Senate Armed Services Committee are unshakeable. As with Hoover, to challenge the General, is to challenge many powerful and influential Congressmen. Such is the power of a Washington institution...
...annual report to the Attorney General, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover last week charged that the U.S. Communist Party was "deeply involved" in the Pentagon march and earlier antiwar rallies, and "can look back on 1967 with a degree of satisfaction...
...John Adams that "the cloven foot is in plain sight." Jefferson was berated as a mean-spirited hypocrite, Jackson as a murderer and adulterer, Lincoln as a baboon. With rare elegance, Teddy Roosevelt called Woodrow Wilson "a Byzantine logothete* backed by flubdubs and mollycoddles. " When the Depression laid Herbert Hoover low, newspapers were called "Hoover blankets," and a "Hoover flag" was an empty pocket turned inside...
Boon for the Buzzards. That, too, is highly unlikely. After 56 years in the Army and a quarter of a century as head of the draft, Hershey is-like FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover-a Washington monument...