Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...voters in their infinite wisdom are always right, as Sidey suggests, how does he explain their choice of Richard Nixon, Herbert Hoover, Warren Harding and other disasters...
Much will depend on how Ronald Reagan interprets the vote. Landslides give Presidents enormous authority, but they can lead either to disasters, as did the landslides of Herbert Hoover, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, or to profound redefinitions of American life, as Franklin Roosevelt engineered. Of course, squeakers too can change American life, as Lincoln and Kennedy proved. What is critical in both landslides and squeakers is the ability of a President to read the tides, the yearnings that went into his victory, to distinguish between his own campaign rhetoric and the reality he must force his people to face...
...there were endless switchbacks and crosscurrents of time. Reagan stood for the past in a different way. The Democrats said he represented the past, populated by such candlesnuffers as Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. In the magic lantern of his own mythos, Reagan saw himself in a Norman Rockwell vision, an image of a clean and wholesome earlier America...
Mondale hammered at Reagan as the first President since Hoover not to have met with a Soviet leader. Then Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko came to call and somewhat stilled that talk. Reagan, who only 19 months before had lashed out at the "evil empire," had managed to neutralize the old anxiety that he is trigger-happy. In any case, the nation was at peace...
...tells Andrei Gromyko [NATION, Oct. 8] that, from the days of Vladimir Lenin to the current leadership of Konstantin Chernenko, Moscow's policy has been to promote world revolution. Maybe so, but this philosophy did not concern Americans before World War II. As an engineering student during the Hoover Administration, I had Soviet students in my classes. I also knew American engineers who had helped design and build a steel plant in the Soviet Union. After World War II, the two countries became antagonists in a cold war that continues to this day. Perhaps it is time to recall...