Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Officials in both camps agree on one fact: neither Ford nor Carter has stirred this year's troubled voters. Professor Everett Ladd, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, believes if Adlai Stevenson and Dwight Eisenhower were running this year, the vote would be higher by at least 10%. Walter Burnham agrees. He contends that the two candidates have not been up to the country's thirst for leadership. He argues that the Democrats were in the best position by far to match that need, but Carter blew his natural advantage. Reaching back to Abraham Lincoln...
...does not. It stretches and sprawls and sometimes the interviews just go flat. But it is by far the best work done on the ugly little freak blacklist, and it is hard to imagine anybody attempting to match the ambitious perspective of Hollywood on Trial. It pulls in Herbert Hoover and Zero Mostel. Joseph McCarthy and Walt Disney, and although it doesn't have the footwork some documentaries do, it is an impressive mosaic...
...Buckley, quotes Woodrow Wilson as saying that the history of liberalism is the history of man's efforts to restrain the growth of government. Franklin Roosevelt, of course, gave liberal its new meaning: the use of what has become Big Government to redress society's inequities. Herbert Hoover objected not only to F.D.R.'s policies but also to his theft of the word liberal. Barry Goldwater was the first presidential candidate to glory in the label conservative...
...common sense, non-ideological conservatives," he says, "They are patriotic, concerned about national defense, worried about inflation and a balanced budget." But most conservatives, according to Phillips, are Democrats; thus the movement can't work through the Republican Party. "They have to know you're not Watergate and Herbert Hoover," he explains. Hence the new party attempt at the AIP convention...
...Wilber begins to tell me of his admiration for Calvin Coolidge (Herbert Hoover was another convention favorite), his wife appears and asks about a man who has just walked into the hotel and wants to be a delegate. Wilber instructs her to have him pay his money, sign in, and wait for some brief questioning. Convention officials make no secret of any of this. The next day, when the roll call for president reaches Maine, a debate between the state chairman and convention secretary ensues over whether Maine has paid $100 each for the number of delegates they claim...