Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Edgar Hoover, the antiquated director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has never held any sympathy for advocates of civil disobedience or for vociferous, active reformers. On several occasions he publicly vilified the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in language which was scurrilous and abusive. Thus it is not surprising that he should now lash out against Students for a Democratic Society and other New Left groups, terming them threats to American security...
Prentice Claflin, as the puckish lush Ivan the Knife, swaggers, slobbers, and leers risibly. Hotiana's Jo (Peter Gilbert) on the other hand maintains the stony-faced good humor of a vacuum cleaner salesman reciting the merits of a Hoover...
Like FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the General is something of a Washington institution. He has been associated with the Selective Service System since its infancy in 1936. In fact, he was promoted to brigadier general in 1940 for his work in planning the system. He is the modern system's first and only director...
...virtually an independent agent, able to defy the President and the Attorney General on such matters as his directive. His loyal supporters in the House and Senate Armed Services Committee are unshakeable. As with Hoover, to challenge the General, is to challenge many powerful and influential Congressmen. Such is the power of a Washington institution...
...annual report to the Attorney General, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover last week charged that the U.S. Communist Party was "deeply involved" in the Pentagon march and earlier antiwar rallies, and "can look back on 1967 with a degree of satisfaction...