Word: hooverness
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About the McCarthy issue, which underlay so much of what Adlai Stevenson said, Nixon made no direct comment. But the meeting's whole tone was anti-McCarthy. The Vice President said that the Administration, through Attorney General Herbert Brownell and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, are "smashing the Communist conspiracy to bits." When New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey praised Nixon as a Communist fighter "who got results, not just headlines," applause swelled through the ballroom...
...that two 18th century Spanish monks first found and named the 14,000-ft. mountain with the cross, formed by two great snow-packed crevices. After Jackson's picture made the mountain celebrated, pilgrims and plain tourists came by the thousands. Eventually, just 25 years ago, President Herbert Hoover proclaimed the mountain a national monument. With due ceremony, Colorado last week began to celebrate the monument's 25th anniversary...
McCarthy: I don't know how many documents-Welch: Let's face up to it, Senator. Do you understand that J. Edgar Hoover sent to the Army a document two-and-one-fourth pages in length...
Welch: Do you understand that J. Edgar Hoover sent to the Army a document two-and-one-fourth pages in length? Just...
...doctored photograph with a doctored letter was accompanied by some even more interesting disclosures. The bogus letter was based upon a 15-page memorandum sent by the FBI to the Army and was marked "confidential." The memo was headed: To Maj. Gen. A. R. Boiling, from John Edgar Hoover, and bore no signature. (The bogus letter was headed "Sir," was signed "Sincerely yours, J. Edgar Hoover, Director" and was marked "Personal and Confidential.") McCarthy testified that he got the letter from an officer in Army intelligence. From the witness stand, McCarthy announced: "I will not under any circumstances reveal...