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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...
These periods of rest may be necessary, yet the feeling usually arises that urgent business is being left unattended, that an idle nation (idle in the sense of ignoring self-improvement and reform) does the devil's work. Indeed, during both the Hoover and Eisenhower presidencies, these pauses were accompanied by ambitious attempts to focus on great and worthy national goals...
...Hoover years came Recent Social Trends, a report published in 1933 by a presidential research committee. The more recent study, Goals for Americans, was published in 1960 by the President's Commission on National Goals. It was partly financed by the Rockefeller Foundation...
...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...