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Getting Through the Day. The Dallas speech drew angry cries from Taftmen, who repeated their defense that most Ike supporters in Texas were Democrats who had no business meddling in Republican affairs. Unruffled, Ike flew off next morning to Nevada for a visit to Hoover Dam. At the dam he told reporters gleefully, "On the road out here, a veteran shouted at me, 'You'd better get in, General, or we'll both be back in the Army." After a look at Lake Mead, Ike asked how soon it would fill up with silt if no precautionary...
...Hoover spent a few bitter and silent years after the country discarded him. Few people cared whether he had anything to say or not. Now a large number of people think he is right, so that even those who disagree with him listen to him with uneasy attention. He is an embarrassing old man who cannot be squelched. At 77, the Chief says invincibly: "They're not going to shut...
...Herbert Hoover, who made himself a successful mining engineer before he went into public life, is nowhere near being the extraordinarily wealthy man that he might have been if he had returned to his profession. He did not take any pay as Food Administrator, and as Secretary of Commerce and President he used his salary for charities and to pay for extra office personnel. He never discusses money (only world monetary situations...
...Hoover inner circle, mostly old-guard Republicans, call him "the Chief" and surround him with veneration. Over powwows in his living room, the Chief presides with avuncular dignity. He does not monopolize the conversation but he dominates it, and when he speaks, no one interrupts him. No one slaps the Chief on the back, and no one tells him risque stories. The Chief's own humor is intellectual. He rarely laughs. He twinkles...
...suite is his haven and his watchtower. From the wall of the imposing living room, a portrait of Lou Henry Hoover gazes down on her husband's pipes, his blue and white porcelain and his solemn books. Three women secretaries wait on him. He seldom dictates answers to his mountainous correspondence, merely pencils a line across a letter which gives the cue as to what he wants the answer to be. He recently got a postcard which carried the arresting note: "Watch for a message which will change the face of the world." Hoover scribbled on it: "Watch...