- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Herbert Quotes
Several very different people, one shared first or last name.
The name Herbert connects a handful of unrelated stories here: a 44-year partnership, a pointed comparison to President Herbert Hoover's record on jobs, and historian David Herbert Donald reflecting on how he weighed rival biographies.
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- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one deals with the secondary sources and the previous biographies. He said something which kept coming back to me as I worked on Cleopatra, which was: 'There's no further new material; there are only new questions.'
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
For President Bush, the first, the 41st president, George Herbert Walker Bush, I spent all 4 years of his presidency on the staff for the National Security Council.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to the University of Chicago on the morning of January 2, 1932. I wasn't yet a graduate of high school for another few months. And that was about the low point of the Herbert Hoover/Andrew Mellon phase after October of 1929. That's quite a number of years to have inaction.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Furthermore, and a point I really want to make very strongly, is that this is the first Administration since Herbert Hoover not to create a net gain in jobs in the course of its Administration.
- Chinese
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.
- Economists
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the Smoot-Hawley bill landed on President Herbert Hoover's desk, more than 1,000 economists urged him to veto it. Tragically, the president ignored their pleas.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The president I came to know best was George Herbert Walker Bush. No. 41 in your program, No. 1 on your list of fast-playing golfers.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn't take more than three hours out of your day - there are other important things to do.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020