Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...previously unopened private papers, reveals an attractive personality who had far more liking and leaning toward F.D.R. and the New Deal than his reputation as a ''Kansas Coolidge" and the vituperative 1936 presidential campaign would suggest. In one telling vignette in a Topeka chicken restaurant, a bellicose Hoover barks rapid boos at a Roosevelt radio speech, and an embarrassed Landon hustles him away from the cluster of newsmen. When the supposedly bitter rivals met at a preelection Governors' conference in Des Moines. relations between Landon and F.D.R. were so harmonious that Kansas' Republican Senator Arthur Capper...
After suffering so much for suffrage, women were oddly hesitant about exercising their voting rights. Not until 1928, when Al Smith's Catholicism, Tammany Hall connections and anti-Prohibitionist sympathies roused a feminine stampede for Herbert Hoover, did as many as 50% of the eligible women cast their ballots...
...only with cool analysis, efficient hard work, and political skill: and both have unusual capacity for precisely this kind of exercise. Both analyzed the problems of the nation in their acceptance speeches extremely well. Both concentrated on the future and left most of the usual nonsense about Herbert Hoover and Harry Truman, the party of the depression and the party of war, to their backward-looking brethren...
...policies of Nixon and Benson and Dirksen and Goldwater. But this nation cannot afford such a luxury. Perhaps we could afford a Coolidge following Harding. And perhaps we could afford a Pierce following Fillmore. But after Buchanan this nation needed Lincoln; after Taft we needed a Wilson; and after Hoover we needed Franklin Roosevelt." Without saying where this put him, Kennedy riffled back again through history for Nixon's benefit. "The Republican nominee, of course, is a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the party of the past-the party of memory...
...Herbert Hoover was aggressively hostile to facts he did not like, and lacking in "sensitiveness toward public affairs." ¶ Franklin D. Roosevelt, under surface shallowness hid "a deep streak of the Dutch." He followed a principle of polarity, i.e., doing two opposite things at the same time (as Frankfurter explains it: "You build a fireproof house and nevertheless take out fire insurance...