Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy then delivered a call for stronger defenses-suggested an airborne SAC alert, called for a crash program for Polaris and Minuteman missiles, a jet airlift for the country's conventional armed forces. Judging by applause, the Legion rated Jack Kennedy as its third choice-behind J. Edgar Hoover and Dick Nixon, who made headlines with a speech proposing a U.S. veto of any future admission of Red China to the United Nations and an economic "quarantine" of Castro's Cuba (next day, as if by prearrangement, the State Department ordered a U.S. embargo on shipments to Cuba...
...huddles with such Republican leaders as New York's Governor Rockefeller. Tom Dewey, Herbert Hoover and Publisher Roy Howard, Nixon aired his problems. One sign of Republican worry was the barrage of advice, some of it flatly contradictory, that poured in on him. Among other things, advice givers urged...
Reporter: Mr. Nixon, is it true that in the event of a recession you would appoint Herbert Hoover Secretary of the Treasury...
...strong and healthy and debonair and young. We will not have a recession. But if we do--and we will not--but if we should (and we won't), I would not hesitate to take any measures for the safety of this healthy nation, including the appointment of Mr. Hoover. But, of course...
...Among alumni: Mrs. Herbert Hoover and Poet Edwin Markham...