Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took no chances. Out of the White House flowed a series of crisp and rippling decisions, a new urgency of diplomatic cables and phone calls. Through the lobby on the way to the President's office hustled so many VIPs-Vice President Nixon, Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr., CIA Director Allen Dulles, Defense Mobilizer Arthur Flemming, Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Arthur Radford, et al. -that White House reporters lost count. Out from Atlantic ports steamed a carrier task force headed by the 60,000-ton Forrestal, while in San Diego seamen worked all night beneath glaring floodlights...
...evidence whatsoever of extension of this lesion to any other organ." At the White House the President issued a statement praising the work of his "invaluable associate." Until Dulles could resume his full duties, said Ike (hopeful estimate: six weeks), the "splendid State Department staff headed by Herbert Hoover Jr. will operate in his stead." Later Sunday morning Ike dropped in on Dulles to talk foreign policy for 15 minutes. As he left, the President turned and said quietly to the senior surgeon: "Take good care of my boy. I need...
...long, O Lord, how long!'' muttered a New York Stevensonite, in wry memory of the 1956 Democratic keynote speech. The answer seemed to be: until the last returns from the Coast. West Virginia came in for Eisenhower, voting Republican for the first time since going for Hoover against Smith in 1928. Los Angeles waited for San Francisco to record a slight margin for Stevenson (ascribed by West Coast commentators in part to Nixon's unpopularity there), then slapped it down with a smart plurality for Ike and Dick. With a jolt, South Carolina Democrats noted that they...
...Acting Secretary, Herbert Hoover, Jr., is not the man for the job either. A professional engineer, Hoover has a spotty record on his stints as Acting Secretary. Notwithstanding his earlier achievement on Iranian oil, he blundered in April 1955 when he refused to negotiate with the Chinese Communists on Formosa unless Chiang was there as an "equal." When Dulles returned to the job, this decision was reversed. His handling of the Saudi Arabian tank deal was also far from adequate, and finally led to a reversal by Mr. Eisenhower...
Because it is Hoover who acts in Dulles' stead under the present arrangement, it is clear that Dulles should now resign on the basis of ill health...