Word: hoovering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...promised to give us a government that looked like America, and he did that. But around him, it was just a group of white guys. So when it got down to the nitty-gritty, the people in the room did not look like America; they looked like the Hoover Administration...
...following Jimmy Carter's strategy of countering bad memories with good works, Clinton will open a second front in his war for posterity. All Presidents, says historian Brinkley, "try to improve their reputation after they leave office. Andrew Johnson was elected Senator after he was impeached, and Herbert Hoover traveled the world as a humanitarian and wrote more than two dozen books." The Clinton Center, which will offer a master's degree in public service through the University of Arkansas, will wrestle not only with international issues but also with racial reconciliation, the information revolution and economic development. Clinton...
...ever existed, is a long way back in the rear view mirror of American politics. Gone are the days when, in a close and corrupt election, Richard Nixon gracefully conceded the White House to John F. Kennedy's '40 mistresses, Jackie O.'s pillbox hats and J. Edgar Hoover's wiretaps. Instead, we have both campaigns girding themselves up for scorched-earth strategies, in which the fate of the presidency will be decided by poorly punched ballots, recount deadlines and judicial fiat...
...Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman, on the other hand, are examples of the second model--"ambition to rise above modest origins," Brinkley says...
...Really not looking forward to trick-or-treating this year b) Choosing fabrics for the 2001 Jorg for Men collection c) The J. Edgar Hoover of Austria d) Trying anything to encourage trade with Japan...