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mahatmakanejeeves

(68,264 posts)
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 06:28 AM Dec 21

"Pervert Hoover"

Marshall Julie
‪@mhjulie.bsky.social‬

“Trade wars are good, and easy to win.”
-Pervert Hoover
6:52 PM · Dec 20, 2025

“Trade wars are good, and easy to win.”
-Pervert Hoover

Marshall Julie (@mhjulie.bsky.social) 2025-12-20T23:52:09.817Z
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"Pervert Hoover" (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Dec 21 OP
I love that name for him! llmart Dec 21 #1
That is PERFECT! GoCubsGo Dec 21 #2
I've always liked, "Hoobert Heaver." 3Hotdogs Dec 21 #3
I remember a commercial years back Prof. Toru Tanaka Dec 21 #6
"Tariffs remind me of my daughter." Kid Berwyn Dec 21 #4
Shouldn't that be Poovert Heeber ... marble falls Dec 21 #5
That's a good one Renew Deal Dec 21 #7

3Hotdogs

(15,035 posts)
3. I've always liked, "Hoobert Heaver."
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 07:42 AM
Dec 21

I recall a radio documentary about him. Actually quite a humanitarian before his fucked up presidency.

Prof. Toru Tanaka

(2,903 posts)
6. I remember a commercial years back
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 09:22 AM
Dec 21

for an album with radio and tv audio bloopers on it. “Hoobert Heaver” was one of them.

As for Pervert Hoover, that is hilarious and so fitting. And in Hoover’s defense, he was actually a very intelligent and well-educated person who was married for over forty years to Lou Henry Hoover until her death in 1944.

marble falls

(71,104 posts)
5. Shouldn't that be Poovert Heeber ...
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 08:40 AM
Dec 21

... As a young announcer, von Zell made a memorable verbal slip in 1931 when he referred to then U.S. President Herbert Hoover as "Hoobert Heever" during a live tribute on Hoover's birthday. Hoover was not present at this tribute. Von Zell's blooper came at the end of a lengthy summation of Hoover's career, during which von Zell had pronounced the President's name correctly several times.[6] Some mistakenly believe Hoover was present when the incident occurred, because of a re-enactment fabricated by Kermit Schafer for his Pardon My Blooper record album, a number of years later.

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