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...ruin of America was among the nation's great political hobgoblins -- right up there with the Red Menace and the Yellow Peril. Public indebtedness, said Thomas Jefferson, who spent $27,267,622 of the national treasure to purchase Louisiana, is "the greatest danger to be feared." Herbert Hoover, whose policies helped usher in the Great Depression, declared that "government borrowing . . . is a device to load our extravagance and waste onto the next generation." Eventually, though, as Armageddon kept getting postponed and new generations thrived, the issue receded into the more fevered right-wing swamps. Then came the 1980s...
...family-values emphasis at the Republican Convention was not an accidental intrusion (no matter how ineptly handled). Conservatives are no longer content to run a businessmen's Administration like that of Coolidge or Hoover, letting other matters be debated by the pointy heads. Today, after all, the basic values of society are changing or being debated -- attitudes toward monogamy, women's roles, abortion, gay rights, censorship. These topics are bound to be tested largely in the freewheeling atmosphere of the academy and the arts, and changes there are bound to disturb traditionalists. But when traditionalists respond as they have...
Litwack also presented slides of Beals' extensive portrait portfolio, which included photographs of Mark Twain, journalist Ida Tarbell, and Presidents Calvin Coolidge, William Taft, Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Residents had criticized the proposal saying the searches were similar to the rubbish-opening tactics employed by former FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover...
...Republicans. The party will wrench itself through a purging and soul-searching process the like of which hasn't been since the Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 years in the White House. (A process that finally gave the GOP Dwight D. Eisenhower, a popular improvement over Herbert C. Hoover of immense proportions.) The outcome of this process is anyone's guess...