Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exactly 20 years earlier, Leningrad (then Petrograd) was, like much of the U.S.S.R., stricken with famine. Perhaps even worse, epidemics of typhoid, smallpox and other diseases were sweeping the country. But in August, 1921, Herbert Hoover's A.R.A. (American Relief Administration) arrived in the Soviet Union and for 23 months carried on a mission of mercy to Leningrad and other Russian cities...
...past eight years, the White House was a slightly manic mansion, with friends, newsmen, relatives, and buddies from old political and real wars bustling in and out. Among the Nixons' guests during their first fortnight were a few personal friends of long standing, such as J. Edgar Hoover, and some social monuments like Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 84, Teddy Roosevelt's daughter. Instead of traipsing through Georgetown or the Virginia suburbs on evenings or weekends when the White House was quiet, the Nixons have been dining with each other-something of a novelty for them...
...Administration showed the difference in an agency's efficacy that a vigorous administrator can make. Widespread replacement of personnel by men with a more wary view of business practices would indeed change the whole character of the agency. But the Nader report also notes that the conclusions of the Hoover Commission in 1949 were much the same as the F.T.C. deficiencies of 1969. Though the immediate problem lies with Dixon and his appointees, such consistent faults suggest consistent causes...
...After all, he pointed out, eight previous Presidents were Cabinet alumni.* But he warned: "If any of you is going to come through, we must get to work. It is time for the Cabinet meeting, 8:30." The President also recalled Teddy Roosevelt's "tennis Cabinet" and Herbert Hoover's "medicine-ball Cabinet." "We," said Nixon, "will call it the working Cabinet...
...first was Thomas Jefferson, who had been Secretary of State. The last was Herbert Hoover, previously Secretary of Commerce...