ABSTRACT
Bright and early one morning in November 1980, a member of the TABLOID Collective in search of some Latin American newspapers entered the one building at Stanford University where such items are kept, the Hoover Institution for the Study of War, Revolution, and Peace. There was a party on. The usually somber tower (affectionately known as Hoover's Last Erection) was jumpin' and stompin'. As the 'BLOID headed for the basement newspaper room, a pair of ecstatic anticommunists, arms about each other's suited shoulders, passed by beaming, “Which do you want, Commerce or the State Department?” A sign on the exit door read: “Last one to leave for Washington turn out the lights.” The Reagan era had arrived, and at Stanford it was going to be a very special experience.
