Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weak candidate that in 1908 he even lost to Taft (3). Wilson (5) beat Taft in 1912. Roosevelt ran that year, too--but as a Progressive. Wilson was reelected in 1916, beating Hughes (3). Harding (3) took Cox (2) in 1920, Coolidge (5) beat Davis (2) in 1924, and Hoover (4) beat Smith...
...opening of personal mail and the interception of communication between U.S. residents and foreign points. One of the plan's originators, Nixon Aide Tom Huston, pointed out in a memo that breaking and entering, at least, was "clearly illegal." The plan was opposed by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (for reasons not entirely clear, since the FBI has not been above breaking and entering in espionage cases); his objections were supported by Attorney General John Mitchell...
...DISPUTE. Nixon said in his May 22 statement that because of Hoover's protests, he rescinded his approval of the plan five days after granting it. He said the plan never went into effect. Neither Mitchell nor John Dean, then White House counsel, could recall seeing orders canceling the plan. No such documents were produced. Questions by Senators indicated some doubts about whether the plan had actually been promptly and completely killed...
...file of worn metaphors and similes appears. Usually the phrases smack of the military or sports-two arenas notable for their threadbare lexicons. Porter thought of himself as "a team player," Dean as a soldier who had "earned my stripes." Ehrlichman considered himself proficient at "downfield blocking." J. Edgar Hoover was "a loyal trooper." Mitchell football-coached, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going"; and everybody worried about the chief "lowering the boom...
There is the fact that the President approved a plan for domestic surveillance which included blatantly illegal activities and which so offended J. Edgar Hoover that Hoover refused to proceed with the plan unless the President gave written permission for FBI agents to break the law in order to carry out the plan...