Cheney Reaction Oct 24, 2009
The most notorious examplethe ur-ex-presidential criticis Herbert Hoover. After losing the presidency to Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932, Hoover spent the next nine years railing on him. (Slate)
Senators Take On Obama's Czars Oct 23, 2009
But 30 years later, the official Cabinet was supplanted in the graces of the nation's seventh President by an unofficial circle of advisers that Andrew Jackson called his "Kitchen Cabinet." Over the years, Grover Cleveland had a "Fishing Cabinet," Teddy Roosevelt a "Tennis Cabinet," Warren G. Harding a racy "Poker Cabinet" and Herbert Hoover something he called a "Medicine-Ball Cabinet.". But the first President to truly create czars as we know them today was Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had his... (Time.com)
Letters to the editor Oct 16, 2009
California Credit Union League. Web search powered by YAHOO. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
When Obama Meets Bush 41: A Bipartisan Boost? Oct 16, 2009
These alliances often span vast differences in both ideology and age: Richard Nixon paid a secret visit to Bill Clinton, 33 years his junior, to discuss Russia policy in 1993; Herbert Hoover met with John F. Kennedy, 38 years his junior, before he was inaugurated in 1960. Bush, at 85, is 37 years older than Obama, who is 48. (Time.com)
It happened This Week: Oct. 14th through Oct. 21st Oct 14, 2009
Former President Herbert Hoover died at age 90. 40 years ago in 1969. (Fort Madison Daily Democrat, IO)
Bull market or just bull? Oct 14, 2009
" I think it is pretty well conceded that we have reached or passed the bottom of this depression and from now on can look to gradually improving business ... Do these quotes from news reports sound familiar? No, we're not looking at comments made in recent BusinessDay reports. These are from The Wall Street Journal of October 6, 1930. It was also about the time then-US president Herbert Hoover told the American Bankers' Association that depression was but a temporary halt in the prosperity of a... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Defer pay and disclose salaries at bailed-out Wall Street firms Oct 13, 2009
BABE RUTH made the classic case for performance-based compensation in 1930, when a reporter informed him that he was asking for a higher salary than President Herbert Hoover. I know, said the Babe, but I had a better year than Hoover. (Boston Globe)
U.S. champ Sloan favored at gymnastics worlds Oct 13, 2009
" So much so that what little free time she's had in London has been spent on ... homework. The high school junior has been home only a few days since school started, and her teachers accommodate her schedule by giving her assignments to her ahead of time or putting them on line. But Sloan has to do her part and get them done. "I have to write a five-page paper on Herbert Hoover," she said. "It's definitely not even close to being finished, but mom I started it, I tried. " ------ TEST RUN: Only... (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- More)
Can Obama Rise to Harding's Level? Oct 13, 2009
Unlike his Commerce Secretary, Herbert Hoover, an enthusiast of government intervention in the economy who pushed for a Conference on Unemployment, Harding believed that "we need vastly more freedom than we do regulation.". Harding, a Republican, not only pardoned and freed the socialist Eugene Debs, who had been prosecuted by the Democrat Wilson; he invited Debs to the White House. (Townhall.com)
Sensibly done, government regulation of the financial markets can work a treat. Oct 12, 2009
(So much for the scurrilous joke that the departing Peter Costello has been awarded the Herbert Hoover Prize for Economics. . (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Railfair at McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park Oct 8, 2009
The car, which visitors can tour, is significant because every U.S. president from Herbert Hoover through Dwight Eisenhower traveled in it. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King signed the Ogdensburg Declaration, an agreement that provided for the joint defense of North America, in this car in 1940. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Oh, give me a home without a subsidized loan Oct 3, 2009
Herbert Hoover signed the Federal Home Loan Bank Act in 1932. Over the next two years his successor, Franklin Roosevelt, created the Federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation and the Federal Housing Administration. (Christian Science Monitor)
Financial Reform: Lessons from 1929 Oct 2, 2009
(President Herbert Hoover called it "the little bull market.") Appetite for reform waned, and bankers assured Congress that heavy-handed regulation was unnecessary even counterproductive. They would reform themselves. (BusinessWeek)
the 1990s as history Oct 2, 2009
The liability is that the presidency of George W. Bush was such a total disaster that it made all previous presidents going back at least to Herbert Hoover look good by comparison. It therefore became something of a struggle to evaluate Bill Clinton on his merits, or lack thereof. (Harper's Magazine)
‘American Radical’ takes an admiring look at journalist I.F. Stone Sep 26, 2009
Stone came of age as a journalist, editorial writer, and public intellectual during the 1930s amid the transition from President Herbert Hoover to Franklin Roosevelt and the nation s shift from a laissez-faire to a more active federal government as a response to the Great Depression. The economic themes will feel familiar, while the era s thriving newspaper industry may prompt nostalgia. (Boston Globe)
The Cause Of Peace Sep 25, 2009
Conservative Magazines & Recommended Sites. Crunchy Conservative Blogs. (The American Conservative)
How Bill Clinton Gave Us George W. Bush Sep 25, 2009
I expected a book called America During the Interwar Years to be about Herbert Hoover and FDR, the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, the Roaring Twenties and the radio as a new mass medium, the Scopes and Leopold-Loeb trials aka the trials of the century and about Tarzan the Ape Man. I must be getting old(er), because I never imagined that someone would actually write a broad and ambitious account of America in the interwar years of 1989 to 2001, a time that for me does not... (The American Conservative)
Did Obama give Washington's Farewell Address? Sep 24, 2009
Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again. Filed under. (The American Conservative)
Pretty Suite! Obama's $7K a Night NYC Digs Sep 23, 2009
In fact, every U.S. president since Herbert Hoover has either stayed in or lived at the Waldorf's towers. While it might be a great honor to have the president stay in your hotel, it's no easy task. (ABC News -- Business)
Once, even GOP had liberals Sep 5, 2009
He was Herbert Hoover s assistant, when Hoover was saving millions from starvation and then later when Hoover was secretary of commerce under presidents Harding and Coolidge. Herter likened his time in the scandal-ridden Harding administration to being in a dirty kitchen, where cockroaches abound. (Boston Globe)
Mr. Paulson goes to Washington Sep 3, 2009
The have never been Herbert Hoover fans ... In pushing through his program, Herbert Hoover created virtually all the lineaments of the New Deal; the New Deal was in fact Herbert Hoover's creation, and historians, now removed from the partisan squabbles of the New Deal period, are increasingly coming to recognize this fact ... First of all, I in no way consider Herbert Hoover to be Rush Limbaugh's spiritual ancestor. (Salon)
The Bigger the Government, the Smaller the Citizen Sep 1, 2009
UCLAs Dr. Lee Ohanian makes that point plain in his latest research on the Great Depression and its primary causes, in which Herbert Hoovers reputation as a free-market politician gets serious revision ... Pro-labor policies pushed by President Herbert Hoover after the stock market crash of 1929 accounted for close to two-thirds of the drop in the nations gross domestic product over the two years that followed, causing what might otherwise have been a bad recession to slip into the... (Townhall.com)
Norway's Iraqi ace-in-the-oil-well Sep 1, 2009
" -- in nearly every single "non-financial" economic indicator in October 2008, directly following the decision not to bail out Lehman Brothers and the consequent global credit crunch offers as much empirical evidence of the umbilical cord connecting the financial economy to the "real" economy as one could ask for. Casey Mulligan's first blog post was about as wrong as it is possible to be for a tenured professor of economics. Just something to think about as his analysis of current economic... (Salon)
How many oil speculators do we need? Aug 29, 2009
" Makes sense -- if you don't count Roosevelt's pro-labor programs, he doesn't end up very pro-labor!So now we have a 68-page paper Ohanian has been working on for four years that is sure to become a never-to-be-extinguished talking point for New Deal haters, union-busters, and opponents of all kinds of government intervention in the economy. Here are some key points, taken from the press release pushed out by UCLA. Pro-labor policies pushed by President Herbert Hoover after the stock market... (Salon)
Hoover's pro-labor stance helped cause Great Depression, UCLA economist says Aug 28, 2009
Pro-labor policies pushed by President Herbert Hoover after the stock market crash of 1929 accounted for close to two-thirds of the drop in the nation's gross domestic product over the two years that followed, causing what might otherwise have been a bad recession to slip into the Great Depression, a UCLA economist concludes in a new study. "These findings suggest that the recession was three times worse at a minimum than it would otherwise have been, because of Hoover," said Lee E. Ohanian,... (EurekAlert!)
Letter: Why doesn’t Obama order single-payer health care? (Aug. 27) Aug 27, 2009
In 1930, President Herbert Hoover by executive order created the Veteran s Administration, one of the largest government-funded health care agencies (with the exception of Medicare, which came much later). If President Hoover could create a government single-payer health care system by executive order, why couldn t President Obama create single-payer health care by executive order. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
CIA Probe Angers Those on Right and Left Aug 26, 2009
Herbert Hoover ---- Great DepressionRichard M.Nixon---- Biggest Disgrace in History ,except for Bush,Ronald Two-Face Reagan------Trickle Down Economics - Great Recession , --George Bush and Cheney-------The Darkest Days in the History of America, Torture, Economic Disastor, Spying, Invasion and the Murder of 150,000 innocents ... Herbert Hoover ---- Great DepressionRichard M.Nixon---- Biggest Disgrace in History ,except for Bush,Ronald Two-Face Reagan------Trickle Down Economics - Great... (CBS News)
Losing Touch: the President and the People Aug 25, 2009
Herbert Hoover had sympathy, at least after a few decades and a generation had passed, and the passage of time had softened memories of the Great Depression he presided over. (Time may not heal, but it does tend to cover the scars. (Townhall.com)
Brian Jennings: Talk Radio Under Attack Aug 24, 2009
It all started with Herbert Hoover in about 1924 when he made a suggestion that these airwaves should be tightly regulated. Well, he wanted to do it because he wanted government to have the say and in 1934 they eventually enacted the Federal Communications Act. (Newsmax)
Click to read:Dow Jones Index Hits 2009 High Mark Aug 22, 2009
---------------------------------------- Yeah, just like Herbert Hoover sang "Happy Days are Here Again" in 1930 when the Stock Market went up alittle before the great slide in 1930, 1931 into 1932 and the "great depression" was on it's way ... Herbert Hoover used Trickle Down too. (CBS News -- 60 minutes II)
Cross-country walker finds joy in simple things Aug 20, 2009
I am looking for the Herbert Hoover Trail, he said as he pointed to a map that indicated the trail crosses Highway 22 near Nichols. I wasn t sure if there was a motel up there by Nichols. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
Wall St. Stabilizes After Big Sell-Off Aug 19, 2009
The Libs must think "Happy Days are here again", the tune Herbert Hoover sang when the market when up in 1930 before it "crashed" over and over throughout 1930, 1931 and 1932 ... Ed Harrison has called him a black Herbert Hoover. (CBS News)
Anxious Investors Fuel Wall St. Slide Aug 18, 2009
This LOSER of a President Barack Obama is another Herbert Hoover. No job growth, big government running everything, no private sector growth. (CBS News)
No comments posted. Aug 15, 2009
New York The former President Herbert Hoover, still and always The Chief to his circle of close friends and colleagues, is 85 years old today ... Work, said Herbert Hoover. (Hartford City News-Times, IN)
Top 10 Lefties Aug 13, 2009
Barack Obama is the latest to join a long list of left-handed presidents from the 20th century: James Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Henry Truman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton were all southpaws. What makes lefties so electable. (Time.com)
A Chronicle life Aug 9, 2009
Having been born and raised in San Francisco, I have been a daily reader of The Chronicle for decades, beginning when I was in junior high school (Herbert Hoover). I have a very demanding career and a busy family. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Holcim closing Wednesday Aug 9, 2009
MacNider was commander of the American Legion and was assistant secretary of war under President Calvin Coolidge and was a minister to Canada under President Herbert Hoover. In 1933 he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for vice president but did not win. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
Baird defends choice not to hold town hall meetings Aug 9, 2009
pangborn wrote on Aug 8, 2009 2:49 PM:" his administration received the debt served on a platter by Bush2. The Ideology war waged in Iraq has bankrupted the country. Rebupublican governing policies do not work. Herbert Hoover Ronald Reagan and Bush2 are three strong examples of feed the rich and starve the poor. An affordable health care plan is needed. It will not bankrupt anyone. It will save lives. Look, look closely. Unemployment is down. The stock markets are up. The slump is coming to and... (Longview Daily News, WA)
Orders Are Easy to Give, Just Hard to Carry Out Aug 7, 2009
Harry Truman was said to have been in a philosophical mood -- he often was -- on leaving the White House as the most unpopular president since Herbert Hoover. It was January of 1953, the country was still at war in Korea, the Cold War could turn hot any minute, the shadow of The Bomb loomed over the planet, the state of the economy was as uncertain as ever, Joe McCarthy remained on the prowl for non-existent Communists in government, which meant the real ones might be overlooked. (Townhall.com)
New Jobless Claims Drop to 550K Aug 7, 2009
Herbert Hoover sang "Happy Days are Here Again" in 1930 to try to fool the people of America in believing the Great Depression was NOT coming, but the ecomony was getting "better". Sound fimiliar. (CBS News -- US)
Mill in midst of successful season Aug 6, 2009
On Aug. 1, the Friends introduced the city of West Branch to their organization and brought a hands-on display to the city s annual Hooverfest at the Herbert Hoover historical site. A crew of our volunteers and tour guides were there to talk to visitors and demonstrate the old-time way of grinding grain, said Hanifan. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
Quirky presidential gifts Aug 5, 2009
A lemon carved to look like a pig was presented to President Hayes and later featured in an exhibit at the Herbert Hoover presidential library titled, "Weird and Wonderful: Gifts Fit For a President." Museum director Richard N. Smith said at the time, "It looks a little like you'd expect a 110-year-old lemon to look." While she may or may not have been the inspiration for the bizarre gift, Hayes' wife, Lucy, was nicknamed "Lemonade Lucy" because she banned alcoholic beverages at state functions.... (CNN)
Get Rid of August Aug 4, 2009
Sure,Lyndon Johnson and Bill Clinton were born in August, but the other presidential Augustans are Herbert Hoover and Benjamin Harrison. Film is represented by Robert Redford and Robert De Nirobut also by John Holmes and Harry Reems. (Slate)
Exploiting Public Ignorance Jul 29, 2009
It took the Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt administrations to massively intervene in the economy. As a result, they turned what might have been a two or three-year sharp downturn into a 16-year depression that ended in 1946. (Townhall.com)
More on Lake Okeechobee Jul 25, 2009
Despite the Army Corps of Engineers' dismissal of consultants' warnings, their own files contain two decades' worth of cautions about the Herbert Hoover Dike. Interactive graphic. (The Palm Beach Post)
Palin Favorability Rating Dips Jul 25, 2009
Sarah Palin is the best thing to happen towards bringing unity within the diverse ranks of the Democratic Party since Herbert Hoover. This woman goes to show how absolutley delusional conservatives are across the spectrum of bitter white trash. (CBS News -- Politics)
An outgoing presidents message (72) Jul 21, 2009
(Written by Republican President Herbert Hoover to Senator Simeon Fess, Feb. 21, 1933) ... poyntzc wrote on Jul 19, 2009 7:08 AM:" It's funny how you can look back through the political history of this country and compare it to today's political circus. Some things that happened, or even the politicians inmaturity is evident even today. Herbert Hoover indeed made some misteps handling the economic downturn that was started with land deals gone bad in Florida (overpriced land). Instead of letting... (Boerne Star, TX)
Today in History Jul 21, 2009
In 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed an executive order establishing the Veterans Administration. In 1944, American forces landed on Guam during World War II.. (Yahoo News)
Hope, caught up in a sea of obstruction Jul 21, 2009
Americans forget that after four years of Herbert Hoover s dithering during the Great Depression members of his party almost unanimously opposed FDR s economic stimulus, and that in the procedural run-up to Social Security, they held ranks against it, too. Twelve of the 19 Republican senators voted to have Social Security scrapped. (Boston Globe)
Click to read:Cronkite: Trusted Guide Through History Jul 19, 2009
"I met all of America's presidents since Herbert Hoover," Cronkite said. " And I've known some of them pretty well. Lyndon Johnson called the "CBS Evening News" while I was actually on the air. And insisted that they put him through to me on the air. My secretary said, 'But he, but he's on the air, Mr. President.' 'I don't give a damned where he is. Put him on the phone.'". (CBS News)
Edward Steichen exhibits showcase breadth of photographer’s career Jul 19, 2009
Other portraits aren t as well known, but the sitters are: Greta Garbo, Winston Churchill, Herbert Hoover, Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Lillian Gish, William Butler Yeats. One can imagine Steichen relishing so eclectic a roster. (Boston Globe)
Why Cronkite Fretted About Media's Future Jul 19, 2009
"I actually knew Herbert Hoover, believe it or not. And my time as a journalist goes back to Franklin Roosevelt. In my time, I don't think we have had any president as aggressive, except possibly Roosevelt. With Roosevelt, there was in his time a call for leadership, which he gave us. With this White House, they are aggressive on all fronts, whether there is a call for leadership or not.". At the same time, Cronkite said, the U.S. Congress had grown too pliant. (CBS News)
America's anchorman dies at 92 Jul 18, 2009
Starting with Herbert Hoover, Mr. Cronkite knew every president, not always pleasantly. A top aide to President Nixon, Charles Colson, harangued the network's chairman, William S. Paley, after Mr. Cronkite's 14-minute Watergate broadcast. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Silver City seeks a heritage first Jul 18, 2009
Who knew, for example, that Herbert Hoover worked as a mining manager and engineer in Broken Hill before he went on to become the 31st president of the United States. Locals are backing the heritage listing. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Steinway White House Pianos Pay Tribute to America Jul 18, 2009
The "Gold Grand" was presented to the White House, and President Theodore Roosevelt accepted the $18,000 Steinway "on behalf of the nation." The piano served through the administrations of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin Roosevelt; it was then donated to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. The second White House piano was built and presented to President Franklin Roosevelt in 1938... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
FAMOUS BIRTHDAY / Calvin Coolidge Jul 17, 2009
His comment on the choice of Herbert Hoover as his successor: For six years that man has given me unsolicited advice all of it bad. Today Calvin Coolidge earns praise from those who approve of the reduction of the size of government and bears criticism from those who believe the federal government should be more involved in regulating and controlling the economy. (Cohasset Mariner, MA)
Kent Talk Highlights Ex-Presidents' Roles Jul 17, 2009
" She said the modern version of the president's club grew out of the relationship between Democratic president Harry Truman and Republican ex-president Herbert Hoover. Hoover left office in 1933, so reviled by his constituency that rotten vegetables were thrown at him as he left Washington. This was a mighty fall, she said as he had been swept into office on a landslide of 444 electoral votes. Ms. Gibbs explained that Hoover had served in Woodrow Wilson's administration and had been the... (Litchfield County Times, CT)
The Fives: A history of politics and being dashed on the rocks of a Supreme Court nomination Jul 14, 2009
Bring into the fact that he was nominated by a hugely unpopular president in Herbert Hoover during a time when ruling against labor interests was politically unacceptable, it's somewhat remarkable he missed the nomination by a mere 41-39 vote. Not all Supreme Court nomination rejections have been about simply getting on the court. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Read the 'News Watch' transcript Jul 14, 2009
There is a piece in The Atlantic that talks about compares Obama to Herbert Hoover in a scary way, saying that he may be too conservative. He may you know, the whole Geithner-Summers thing, the same people that brought you this disaster are in charge. (Fox News)
Obamanomics' War On Business Will Strangle Economic Recovery Jul 13, 2009
If Obama signs into law major tax increases, he would be repeating the fatal mistake committed by Herbert Hoover. Printing trillions. (Townhall.com)
A Morse Code typo lights city skyline Jul 12, 2009
Newspapers at the time said it was decided that the tower should have an aerial beacon flashing on it "to comply with the recent request of Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, so that aviators might recognize the city.". Red neon was chosen because it was the color best visible through fog. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Hooverfest plans tribute to vets Jul 9, 2009
Hooverfest is the annual celebration of the 1874 birth of Herbert Hoover in West Branch, Iowa ... The event takes place from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 1 at the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site in West Branch, I-80, exit 254, just east of Iowa City. (Kalona News, IA)
No retreat from uproar over Bohemian Club woods Jul 7, 2009
Every Republican president since Herbert Hoover is believed to have been a Bohemian Club member - as was Chief Justice Earl Warren. E-mail Jane Kay at. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Charles Akerson; devised shortcut for appraisers Jul 7, 2009
His grandfather was a Swedish immigrant, and his father, George Edward Akerson, was President Herbert Hoover s press secretary. He served in the US Navy during World War II, rising to the rank of lieutenant, then graduated from Tufts University with a bachelor s degree in education. (Boston Globe)
No budget yet? Call 'em on it Jul 5, 2009
2 billion budget deficit don't qualify as a rainy day (or a monsoon), what in the name of Herbert Hoover would. Another big pool of money, roughly $200 million in surplus legislative accounts, also sits ripe for the taking. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
