Word: hooverness
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...Christian Coalition-controlled Republican Party reminds me of the early Puritans. All that's missing are the wooden stocks and the burning of the witches. I've been a dyed-in-the-wool Republican since 1928, when I voted for Herbert Hoover, but no longer. ROBERT R. HELMERICHS St. Louis Park, Minnesota...
Perhaps the most interesting story of the three is Dow's. A longtime Republican who first voted in 1928 for Herbert Hoover, Dow has spent his life waging what he described as fruitless battles for conservatism in Cambridge...
...might be true that Clinton's loose definition of marriage and fidelity has little effect on his ability to carry out the presidency. But as the seizure of the files demonstrates, there is a definite point where flexible integrity leads to horribly misguided decisions. With the memories of Hoover's FBI still vivid, we cannot help but attribute the seizure of the FBI files to the lack of morality and integrity within the Clinton Administration--a want which evidently traces itself from the lowest administration employees to Clinton himself...
...Administration, in the wake of the travel-office scandal, swore such a thing would never happen again. When a President harnesses the power of America's premier law-enforcement agency to political ends, he rides roughshod over the Constitution and revisits the bad old days of J. Edgar Hoover. Is this what Clinton or his people were up to? There are three ways to see the story, depending on who is telling...
...real problem is deep-seated black suspicion of law enforcement that dates back to the days when J. Edgar Hoover's FBI put more zeal into collecting dirt on Martin Luther King Jr. than into protecting civil-rights workers. It does not help that two ATF agents who face potential disciplinary action for taking part in the racist shenanigans at the so-called Good Ol' Boys Roundup in May 1995 were originally part of the church-burning task force. They have since been reassigned...