Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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American history shows a kind of ebb and flow in national purpose and social activism. The progressive era was followed by the quiescent, conservative Harding, Coolidge and Hoover regimes. Then came the great frenzy of the New Deal and the war, which were succeeded by the calm Eisenhower years. Kennedy, in his phrase, got "America moving again"-right into the hyperactive Johnson era. During the Nixon years there came another pause, domestically at least (until Watergate spoiled the calm). That pause has continued under Gerald Ford...
...missing personal files of former Director J. Edgar Hoover, which were burned at the Blue Ridge Club fire, were said to include dossiers on U.S. Supreme Court Justices...
...second investigation. However, Tail's firm will no longer function as an FBI "cutout" until the investigation is completed. Justice Department officials are now hoping that the new investigation may prompt Kelley to take a long step toward completing the housecleaning that began after J. Edgar Hoover's death...
...main conflict centered on just who had first selected Halperin to be wiretapped. Nixon said he asked Kissinger to tell J. Edgar Hoover, the late FBI director, who on the NSC staff had access to the leaked information. But Nixon contended that he had "no recollection" of specifically approving the wiretapping of Halperin himself. By contrast, in his own affidavit for this suit, filed last January, Kissinger claimed that it was Hoover who had first mentioned Halperin, identifying him and other unspecified persons "as security risks." And it was Nixon who then had "directed surveillance of Morton Halperin and certain...
...election has won. These 40 years are the only proper ones for making presidential comparisons because they encompass the modern presidency-that cataclysmic expansion of federal services and presidential powers that began with Franklin Roosevelt. So simple and quiet was the White House even in Herbert Hoover's time that Hoover, the last of the old era, continued the custom of shaking hands with tourists for an hour every day. He had another distinction: he was the last sitting President to be defeated at the polls...