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For the record

...that president Obama tried to implement some measures to stop the hemorrhaging, lest he be remembered as being the Herbert Hoover of his generation. These actions aren't free. And controversial as the stimulus was, the economy has slowly rebounded...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2012-08-07/record
Open Forum
Cain not likely to be the next Ike

...simple question. "Is Cain another Eisenhower?" The context was that over the past century almost no one, save for Herbert Hoover, a disaster, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, had won the presidency before serving in another political office. Priebus...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/columnists/2011-11-13/cain-not-likely-be-nex
Columnists
EXTRA! EXTRA! The stories that made big headlines in the 20th century

...Union: resulting famines claim 25 million. 1928. 76. Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt beats incumbent President Herbert Hoover. 1932. 77. Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet premier: begins era of ''Glasnost.'' 1985. 78. Max Planck proposes...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/122499/htt_1224990084.shtml
Features
Mexico - Dispatch Editorial

...stunning. The Institutional Revolutionary Party had dominated Mexico's political scene, ruling since 1929, when Herbert Hoover was the U.S. president. The longtime ruling party, known as PRI in its Spanish acronym, had ruled with an iron...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/070600/opi_0706000029.shtml
Opinion
A look at Nader's running mate

...Ben Nighthorse Campbell. But there is precedent for LaDuke's ambitions: Charles Curtis, a vice president under Herbert Hoover, was Kaw Indian. But for non-Indians as well, LaDuke has a list of reasons why people should consider voting...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/082900/pol_0829000013.shtml
Politics
Gore, Bush take time out for humor

...candidates to the annual white-tie-and-tails dinner honoring Al Smith, the Happy Warrior who was defeated by Herbert Hoover. They sat on the dais, separated only by Archbishop Edward M. Egan. And for about 10 minutes each, they offered...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/102000/pol_1020000018.shtml
Politics
Bush to confront economic challenges

...eliminate the tax cut. Do eliminate the tax cut. Tout free trade. Protect producers. Be positive. Don't be another Herbert Hoover with promises of prosperity just around the corner. Economists, politicians and business leaders canvassed by Newsday...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/081202/nne_0812020002.shtml
News
Open Forum

...go back to work. Again in the 1920's with Harding, Coolidge, and normalcy, and then the Sacrificial Lamb -- Herbert Hoover, we first broke the farmers in the early twenties, then in the late '20s we broke the unions and of course you...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/121704/opi_1217040043.shtml
Opinion
Overheard

"This president is beginning to resemble Herbert Hoover." -Charles Schumer, Democratic senator from New York

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/031508/new_20080315059.shtml
News
This was Brainerd

...Guernseys. 80 years ago (1928) Dispatch Headlines: Extra - Extra Hoover wins! 386 votes in the Hoover Landslide - Herbert Hoover's Presidential Landslide gave him a lead of nearly 2,000 popular votes. 100 years ago (1908) Our $500 boy's...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/110708/new_20081107036.shtml
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