Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seats. Despite its non-partisan composition, however, many state officials still view the commission with a mixture of fear and distrust. "Some people here perceive us as a horror story imposed on the legislature," David Brickman, commission member, explained recently. "But we are not a band of J. Edgar Hoover Jr.'s and we will do our job professionally, so that if they have nothing to hide they have nothing to fear...
Stockdale came to philosophy as a 38-year-old Navy fighter pilot enrolled in a master's program at Stan ford's Hoover Institution...
...Bolshevism," said one early observer, "means chaos, wholesale murder, the complete destruction of civilization." In 1918, Woodrow Wilson even sent some 15,000 American troops to support Allied forces fighting against the Bolsheviks in northern Russia and eastern Siberia. But within three years, the American Relief Administration under Herbert Hoover was pouring food and medical supplies into famine-ridden Russia...
With that declaration, reminiscent of conservative Republican affirmation since the time of Herbert Hoover, California's Democratic Governor Jerry Brown last week sounded a theme for his presidential campaign and joined a growing national movement to balance the federal budget by outlawing deficit spending...
Some political scientists were troubled that most of Carter's successes were in foreign affairs. Observed Seymour Martin Lipset of the Hoover Institution in Stanford, Calif: "Carter is in the same boat as Nixon, looking good abroad while facing a sea of domestic troubles." But the President did salvage some gains: a truncated energy bill despite the Administration's confused and uncertain performance of a year earlier, Civil Service reform and a veto of wasteful water projects...