Word: hooverness
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...President Johnson ordered the investigation. To the George Washington University Hospital, where Walter Jenkins is confined in a room guarded by private attendants and with a "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door, came a bouquet of mixed fall flowers. With it came a card signed "J. Edgar Hoover and Associates." There was some doubt about just who those "associates" might be. But there was no doubt about Hoover, who with a waiver from Johnson will continue as FBI chief after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70 next...
...moments of Herbert Clark Hoover's long and illustrious life, the one best remembered was the worst...
This was Saturday, March 4, 1933, F.D.R.'s Inauguration Day-and the day after Hoover had stubbornly rejected urgent demands that he close all of the nation's banks. Only four years before, Hoover had been elected as the 31st President of the U.S., with 58.1% of the popular vote (still the third highest in history), over Democrat Al Smith. When he took office, he had well earned his position as the most respected man in America. Now, after having been overwhelmed for reelection, he was perhaps the most reviled; the phrase "Hoover's Depression" was current...
...even while enduring such violent swings in public esteem, Hoover himself remained constant in character and principles. And by .the time he died last week at 90 in his Waldorf Towers apartment in Manhattan, he ranked once again as a U.S. citizen who could truly be called revered...
...Orgy of Speculation." History's hindsight has absolved Hoover of much of the blame for the Great Depression. Indeed, he saw it coming long before he made, as one admiring biographer put it, the "most serious error of his amazing career"-that of running successfully for President...