Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Aide Joe Califano is combing the country, plucking ideas from thoughtful men about Johnson's last months in office, but most of his harvest is chaff. One suggestion for a final gesture: "Fire J. Edgar Hoover...
...confession made by a suspect is deemed voluntary. The bill also permits police to hold a suspect up to six hours-and longer in some cases-without an arraignment. Noting that these provisions apply only to federal cases, Johnson snowed his displeasure by telling the Attorney General and J. Edgar Hoover that federal suspects should still be given "full and fair warning" of their constitutional rights...
...thoughts of Rebel Student Leader David Shapiro during a taxi ride to Queens, where the Phi Beta Kappa poet was to give a reading. Later, Peter sat in on a midnight bull session with students in Buffalo, then drove the next morning to State College, Pa., with Sociologist Edgar Friedenberg, interviewing him en route. Babcox ended his school swing in a talk with a Penn State senior while flying back to New York. Checking out the facts in Manhattan was Researcher Erika Sanchez (Hunter College, '60); the final grading was done by Senior Editor John Elson (Notre Dame...
...most apparent difference between the two was in their attitudes toward two major Administration officials: FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, who was one of the first officials to be reconfirmed in office by John F. Kennedy, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk, a J.F.K. appointee. Bobby noted that he has disagreed with Rusk for some time, but understandably refused to say that he would fire him. McCarthy was somewhat less tender. Stating the obvious, he said that he would sack any Cabinet member with whose policies or performance he disagreed; he left no doubt that he would retire both Rusk...
...Gold Coast is to the Gold Coast Valeteria, so the Harvard prank of yesterday is to the prank of today. The finely wrought practical joke of the past had the excitement of a shaving cream fight, the sophisticated delicacy of a neurosurgical operation, the cold reality of J. Edgar Hoover breathing down its neck, and usually a large dose of University Hall. The only remaining tradition in the hoax-and-dagger line is the stealing of the Lampoon lbis from its perch atop the Lampoon building...