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When a magazine article in the 1930s referred to Hoover's "mincing" gait, and a diplomat commented on his "conspicuous perfume", Hoover struck back.
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At the very same time, the movie offers a love story in which the hero struggles with his sexuality, and with his supposedly closeted love—if there was a closet it stayed tightly shut, so most of the script's sexual content is conjecture—for Clyde Tolson, the FBI agent who came to be known as Hoover's constant companion.
'J. Edgar': Hoover's Life, in a Dramatic Vacuum Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Barack Obama is walking in Herbert Hoover's shoes.
Mortgage Crisis Is 'Cancer,''Slow Wasting Process,' Analyst Says The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Yeah, and Hoover's tax increases both revived the economy AND eliminated the deficit, right?
Did the Bush Tax Cut Fail?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Barack Obama is walking in Herbert Hoover's shoes.
Mortgage Crisis Is 'Cancer,''Slow Wasting Process,' Analyst Says The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The are proud deniers of global warming, that republican deregulation and lack of government oversight caused this depression, that their war of choice has spilled ouir precious blood, that we should have followed Hoover's choice of "not intervening in the markets" and let the enite banking system collapse and that market solutions will ever provide the working poor health care.
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Yeah, and Hoover's tax increases both revived the economy AND eliminated the deficit, right?
Did the Bush Tax Cut Fail?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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He will need 200,000 new Jobs a month until the election, just to match Herbert Hoover's record.
Jobs Come Marching, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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His antipathy toward Donovan was fueled by Hoover's disgusting and untruthful allegation that among Wild Bill's many mistresses was Donovan's own daughter-in-law.
The Spymaster's Spymaster Andrew Roberts 2011
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He will need 200,000 new Jobs a month until the election, just to match Herbert Hoover's record.
Jobs Come Marching, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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