Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

The Republican Party considered pulling him from the ballot. The Chief was under attack from all sides: Conservatives were ready to throw him on the one-term heap, and a group he came to label “totalitarian liberals” promised direct government intervention in the economy.22 The biggest threat, however, was from the workers and soldiers who kept showing up en masse outside Hoover’s properties with an implicit threat to kill him and take all his stuff: the Communists.