Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal Trade Commission, Weinberger did such a good job reorganizing the agency as the consumer's friend that he even won praise from Ralph Nader, rare for a Nixon appointee. When the President made him deputy budget director six months later, Cap Weinberger arrived sounding like Herbert Hoover. In the midst of a recession, he preached the gospel of balanced budgets. Yet as a good soldier, he proceeded to preside over a string of job-creating deficits that left even some liberals bemused...
...charges, Bruce was sick--but not with the diseases the grand juries called him to account for. He was a symptom of the biased, uptight, closed-fisted society he satirized: if there were peace and tranquility, Bruce commented, then he would be there in the unemployment line with Herbert Hoover and Jonas Salk...
...Kissinger." As the nation's foreign-trade spokesman, he is out to prove that "trade policy is foreign policy, trade policy is security policy, trade policy is domestic policy." After less than a year in the job, he is wielding more clout than any Commerce Secretary since Herbert Hoover. But, says Peterson: "I keep a portrait of Hoover hanging over the fireplace in my office to remind me of the hazards of ambition...
...that Nixon would have won no matter whom the Democrats had nominated. Last May, well before the Democratic Convention, the President was riding a 61% vote of confidence in a Gallup poll ?and the figure virtually matched his Election Day mandate. No incumbent President since Hoover, guillotined by the Depression, has ever been defeated. Moreover, Yankelovich believes that the critical moment of the 1972 campaign occurred when the Russians decided to go ahead with the Moscow summit conference even after the President had announced the mining of Haiphong harbor and escalated the bombing. Many Americans then concluded that...
...procedure astounded veteran FBI officials. Said one of them: "The White House wouldn't have dared to send over an order like that when Hoover was in charge. He would have kicked it right back to them and refused to do what they wanted...