Word: hooverness
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Though the state of U.S. affairs clearly required liaison between the outgoing and incoming Administrations, many an Eisenhower supporter was inclined to regard the Truman proposals with skepticism. Franklin Roosevelt's refusal to engage in joint planning with Herbert Hoover in the last interregnum between two U.S. Administrations has long been considered smart politics, since it tied Hoover's hands and permitted Roosevelt, after his inauguration, to give the impression that he alone had brought order out of chaos...
...SECRETARY OF THE NAVY: Ohio's David Ingalls, the Navy's only World War I ace, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air (Hoover Administration) and Bob Taft's primary campaign manager...
...department-store operator who ousted grey, quiet Majority Leader Ernest McFarland, and Michigan Representative Charles E. Potter, who unseated Senator Blair Moody. In some states, the Eisenhower landslide failed to pull in strong Republican candidates. In New Mexico, Ike almost tugged Pat Hurley (Secretary of War under Herbert Hoover) across the line, but Hurley finally lost to Senator Dennis Chavez in a race so close that it is being challenged...
Hurley, Secretary of War under Herbert Hoover and a Roosevelt emissary to China and Russia, was running a seesaw race with Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez...
...Korea "unconstitutional." His original contribution to isolationism has been a proposed amendment to the Constitution negating the enforcement provisions of the UN Covenant on Human Rights. Also a stand-patter domestically, Bricker was one of the few Senators to vote against 14 of the 16 provisions of the Hoover Commission...