Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cities deserve more than tax incentives to lure business into the ghettoes, but they have no indicated any change of heart since the election. Nixon's biggest contribution to the urban crisis has been to appoint Rogers--a county bond specialist--as Attorney-General instead of the J. Edgar Hoover type his campaign promised...
...Bequest. The dominant figure on the permanent White House staff is Executive Assistant William J. Hopkins, 58, a bald, self-effacing factotum who joined Herbert Hoover in 1931, and has been the presidential office manager since 1943. Hopkins commands a crew of 255 secretaries, stenographers, messengers and telephone operators. He is, says Lyndon Johnson, "an indispensable instrument" to the management of the presidency...
...indeed a Soviet citizen at all. At Abel's 1957 trial, he refused to disclose his identity, confessing only that he had entered the U.S. illegally. At that time, the Soviet press described him as a wretched German photographer victimized by "a hoax concocted by J. Edgar Hoover and American authors of lowbrow science fiction." In fact, as Abel now tells it, he was the son of a Russian revolutionary exiled to the far north under Czar Nicholas II. He prepared for his future vocation by distributing Bolshevik literature, beating up "Trotskyites" and studying radio engineering and foreign languages...
...they succeed, it will be quite an achievement. In the 1932-33 interregnum, relations between Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt were frosty, though the nation was already deep in the Depression. Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower did somewhat better 20 years later, but not much. In 1960, John Kennedy declined to become involved in decisions that were made during Dwight Eisenhower's last months in the White House. Their first postelection meeting did not take place until a month after Kennedy...
...prosperous career in the law. Instead of berating the man who beat him, Wendell Willkie went on a global fact-finding mission for F.D.R. After losing the Democratic nomination to John F. Kennedy in 1 Adlai Stevenson gracefully became Kennedy's Ambassador to the U.N. Ex-President Herbert Hoover, rejected for a second term, rebounded to become an elder statesman whose services were often sought by the party that drove him out of office...