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My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.
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Shirley Temple
American
Actress
Born:
Apr 23
,
1928
Died:
Feb 10
,
2014
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Clint Eastwood
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I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
Germaine Greer
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An interesting parallel: MLK was targeted by J. Edgar Hoover, an unsavory character. I was targeted by the equally unsavory B. Hussein Obama.
Dinesh D'Souza
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By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security.
Alexander Cockburn
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Party
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Panther
Hoover
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Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
Barry Eichengreen
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Herbert Hoover
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Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.
Clint Eastwood
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
Gail Porter
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Everything
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Hoover
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I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.
Gale Norton
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