Word: hooverness
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Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. On the desk was a little oak plaque with three black buttons on it, to summon secretaries and stenographers. But whenever Harry Truman wanted a stenographer he would jump up, rush to the door and say, "Look, I want to dictate a few letters...
People hoped for much, but expected a lot less, from the man with the powerful shoulders and crippled legs who stood before them, tightly gripping the rostrum, on that cloud-hung, windy March 4 in 1933. They had not voted for him; they had voted against Herbert Hoover. They knew him as a pretty good governor of New York, a man with a strong-chinned patrician face and the magic name of Roosevelt, a man with a broad Harvard accent and the wealthy, aloof heritage of Groton and Crum Elbow...
...consigned them to "the Ananias Club" if the stories proved embarrassing. Wilson had shut off press conferences after war drew near. Harding, after an ill-fated attempt to be frank, would answer only questions submitted in writing. Coolidge dodged behind the anonymity of the "White House Spokesman" and Hoover ruled that all questions had to be submitted 24 hours in advance; in the last months Hoover would not see the press at all, but had a secretary issue mimeographed handouts...
...Hoover not only fears, but does not desire a long peace. He pours out tears because Poland, Finland and the Soviet Baltic Republics were snatched from the chains of German imperialism. He, of course, does not think about war for 'securing their freedom...
Said Herbert Hoover, "I don't think I want to get into a controversy with them...