Word: hooverness
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Herbert C. Hoover, President of the United States from 1929 to 1933, died yesterday morning at the age of 90. He had been in a coma in his Manhattan apartment since Saturday, when he suffered an internal hemorrhage...
...native of Iowa, Hoover was defeated in 1932 by Franklin D. Roosevelt in a bid for a second term. The electorate blamed him for the depression that hit the country seven months after his inauguration...
...chairman of the Commission on the Organization of the Executive Branch, Hoover regained stature in the last 22 years of his life. His work as relief organizer for Europe during World War I was also praised...
Orphaned when he was 10, Hoover accumulated a fortune as an engineer by the time he was 28. He was Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge. Running for the presidency in 1928, he defeated Alfred E. Smith...
...politics, it seems, bad times make good slogans. Herbert Hoover's promise of "a chicken in every pot" did not get him re-elected in 1932, but it was a far more ingenious catch phrase than the Republicans' 1944 theme, "Time for a change," or "I like Ike" in 1952. And for all John F. Kennedy's eloquence, no Democratic orator since the Depression has matched Franklin D. Roosevelt's phrasemaking prowess on behalf of "the forgotten man." Lyndon Johnson's vision of "the Great Society" is not only vague, but vieille vague as well...