Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

Herbert Hoover Brewer... or Herbert Hoover Napolitano? Herbert Hoover Some of Arizona’s government “stimulus” enthusiasts have been citing a recent Paul Krugman column , which was printed in the December 30th edition of the Arizona Daily Star , directly above an op-ed from AFP Arizona ( http://www.azstarnet.com/business/273696 ). Krugman’s column was titled “50 Herbert Hoovers: State cuts fuel economic crisis,” and rehashed the classical Keynesian line that governments should expand spending... Read Full Story

This is the question that comes to mind when one looks at the difficulties America is facing at the moment. United States is currently going through the deepest recession at any time in last 70 years and there is a danger that this recession and Obama’s name will become synonymous as that of 1920’s depression and Herbert Hoover’s. As with Hoover, this recession is not Obama’s making and to be honest, he is taking all the right steps to stem the rot but my fear is that by the time his actions... Read Full Story

"Obama Talks Up Stimulus" image: truveco.com The Economic Outlook continues to decline as job losses this February were at 651,000, AFP bringing the unemployment rate to 8.1, with an overall 5.1 million American’s out of work. To counter the bad new, Obama is busy touting his job creating stimulus package, visiting Columbus Ohio, where 25 public jobs were “saved” by "stimulus". The Boston Globe reported that the President does know that there are greater job losses, but that he is indeed... Read Full Story

Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place Essays on politics, culture and ideas about Israeli-Arab peace and world music Muslim and Jewish Women in Nazareth 'We can live in peace'...John Lennon (photo: Dafna Tal) Mahzor New York Public Library Sarajevo Haggadah Mah Nishtanah Antaea Darom Israeli women's art Torah as music Ben Heine ceramic bowl Mohammad Said Kalash, "Offering Reconciliation" exhibit... Read Full Story

Herbert Hoover In an assault on the American worker, Republicans have once again shown their true colors by killing the deal to allow GM and Chrysler bridge loans so that they can survive and keep millions of workers employed. The Republican Senators’ next campaign slogan should be “Never let doing the right thing for the country stand in the way of partisan politics.”   After a bailout deal passed in the house, Senate Republicans insisted that American workers’ and retirees’ wages... Read Full Story

Once again, Frank Rich has a great column in today's New York Times that examines just how out of touch with reality the Republican Party has become. Indeed, the Party seems to be reading the play book used by the GOP as the country and world slid into the Great Depression. I know that the Christianists base of the Party has a disdain for accurate history, but one would think that there would be someone not drinking the Kool -Aid. Despite the government efforts made to date, banks which have... Read Full Story

Herbert Hoover’s presidential reputation is not one that smacks of wonderment as it has been presented to us in our modern time. In point of fact, there seems to be little to admire in the man if he is not forgotten altogether, according to the way he is referred to by many historians. I guess you might say his own words came back to bite him, as happens all too often in the public eye. Hoover had been an entrepreneur and multimillionaire by the start of World War I. One quote that came back... Read Full Story

  Democrats lately have invoked the ghost of Herbert Hoover several times in their quest to regain control of the White House.  So much so that it inspired the Wall Street Journal to examine the economic policies of Herbert Hoover and compare them to the policies that Democrats are proposing today.   Here is an excerpt from the article: By last week, Mrs. Clinton was in full Ghostbusters mode, claiming that John McCain’s speech on the housing problem “sounds remarkably like... Read Full Story

Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 - October 20, 1964) was the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933). Besides his political career, Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted government intervention under the rubric "economic modernization". In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no previous... Read Full Story

Along with the CIA, the FBI was a target of Service A's active measures. Most of the propaganda was aimed at the Bureau's leader J. Edgar Hoover, who passed away in 1972. The KGB's propagandists delivered their literary mud in three phases: 1. Service A portrayed Hoover as an extreme, ultra right-winger in cahoots with the very right-wing John Birch Society. The Service ended up obtaining some of their stationary; the full extent of how they used the stationary is unclear. They did however... Read Full Story