Letters to the Editor
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Hoover had some character
There was an article in Salon a while back, with quotes from a professor and some classmates of Bush's. One of his classmates wondered aloud how on earth anyone could go through four years at Yale without ever finding a single subject to be fascinated with. He does seem intellectually disengaged, as if he couldn't be bothered ever to study anything or think critically, especially self-critically.
The one thing that stuck in my mind about pre-Depression crisis Hoover was his statement about the punitive aspects of the post-World War I treaties. He said: "where I come from, we do not kick a man in the stomach after we have licked him." This shouldn't be read as excusing the Nazi response to these provisions, but to me, it showed decency. A man of some character, instead of a petty, vindictive and small man, grasping at a chance for revenge.