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...Said he: "Men who seek to fight [Communism] by indiscriminate accusation of their fellow citizens-by spreading suspicion and smear and slander-are serving no one but the Communists themselves ... In fighting Communism at home, I shall rely on such experienced guardians of our security as J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and General Bedell Smith of the Central Intelligence Agency. These men fight Communism as it must be fought-with care, thoroughness, precision and silence...
Government. Promises to "reorganize and streamline" the Government by "principles of competent, imaginative management . . . We will take out of the files the unfulfilled reports of the Hoover Commission; we will dust them off; where necessary, we will ask Congress to enact them...
Dever and Herter are two extraordinarily dissimilar men. Born in Paris, Herter served as an attache in the U. S. Legation in Berlin during the first World War, and later became a personal assistant to Herbert Hoover in Belgium. In 1931, he ran for, and won, a seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, later became Speaker of the House, and finally was elected to Congress from a strong Republican district...
Also 30. Ex-President Herbert Hoover went boating one night in his night clothes because...
...reclamation projects today, 41 were created by Republicans. These included the first gigantic, multiple-purpose dam on the Colorado River [the Hoover...