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...time to face facts: Hoover's vaunted success in combatting crime was largely phony. The reputation of his Bureau is built on juggled statistics and skillful public relations. For only in the area of winning public favor did this extraordinary bureaucrat show any talent or originality. For nearly forty years, he bombarded the voters with FBI books, movies, radio shows, comic strips, and television series--all produced by independent companies but carefully censored by the Bureau. The propaganda took; most Americans accepted Hoover as a crusading savior. Few looked beyond to see him as he was: a clever, reactionary bureaucrat...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON '41, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, did not fit my image of the Federal bureaucrat. He was neither paunchy nor pallid from sitting too long under fluorescent light, in fact when a trio of Crimson women interviewed him April 6 he sported a snappy pinstripe suit and a fresh tan from an Asp ex ski weekend...
...nearly 21 months-from April 1970 to November 1971- wiretap applications were often reviewed and granted, not by Mitchell, but by a civil service bureaucrat. An aide scrawled Mitchell's initials on many of the 375 wiretap authorizations made during that period. Since many of the cases involved are based primarily on evidence obtained by electronic surveillance, Government prosecutors find their cases collapsing after trial judges disallow the improperly authorized wiretaps. So far, 78 are being challenged in court; an appellate court has overturned the convictions of members of a smuggling organization in Miami, and a Detroit judge...
...Late. More revealing were the networks' sidebar interviews with ordinary people. Barbara Walters talked with her interpreter, a bureaucrat who had been sent with his wife to the country to work with peasants. Their three children had been left behind, and the interpreter was now uncomplainingly separated even from his wife. That brief vignette spoke a volume about the dutiful Chinese character and the Maoist regime...
...information policy, Anderson exaggerated his accomplishment by trying to make it seem a victory of the free press over official censorship. Said he: "It is a secret now if a third-rate bureaucrat blows his nose. The security stamp is being used as promiscuously as a stapling machine." True enough, in general. But the Government obviously has a right to try to keep its consultations private.* The press, on the other hand, also has a right-and a responsibility-to print whatever inside information it can get, provided it does not violate military secrets or damage the national security...