Word: hooverness
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Murphy: I know, for instance, Senator Dirksen quite well . . . J. Edgar Hoover, and all the rest...
...Warren Commission severely criticized the Secret Service for its failure to take adequate security measures against the assassination of President Kennedy. Even so, the commission was well aware of the difficulties in protecting a President. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had testified during the investigation: "I don't think you can get absolute security without almost establishing a police state, and we don't want that." And when it came to specific precautions, the commission pretty much threw up its hands, saying: "This commission can recommend no procedures for the future protection of our Presidents which will guarantee...
...Eddie Riclcenbacker, 74. But there were more like Stephen Gregg, 49, who singlehanded cleared a hill of Germans in 1944, then returned to a peacetime job as a New Jersey courtroom supervisor. They seemed delighted to be there - and reluctant to discuss the reasons why. "Hero?" snorted Herbert Hoover Burr, 44, who drove his flaming tank into a German 88-mm.-gun position and destroyed it. "Hell, if I'd been born early enough to fight in the Revolution, I might have been Aaron Burr, not Herb Burr...
...grandson, Yachtsman Charles Francis Adams, was Secretary of the Navy under President Hoover. His great-grandson, the fourth Charles Francis, 54, has been longtime boss of Raytheon (space equipment), two weeks ago was elected chairman of the board...
...Herbert Hoover, Lyons...