Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate aide used to begin his first telephone conversation of each week with a hearty "F- J. Edgar Hoover." To the startled listener on the other end of the line, he explained: "Just clearing the lines." During the debate over G. Harrold Carswell's nomination to the Supreme Court, Indiana Senator Birch Bayh became so disturbed over an inexplicable strategy and information leak that he called in an expert to examine his office for listening devices. The expert "swept" Bayh's office-the same suite occupied by Richard Nixon when he was a Senator-with a detector...
...last week and said: "I'm going to make a speech that's going to get national headlines." In a one-minute address, Boggs broke the desultory parliamentary doings with a harsh challenge to the reputation of one of Washington's most powerful institutions-J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. Boggs: "When the FBI taps the telephones of members of this body and members of the Senate, when the FBI adopts the tactics of the Soviet Union and Hitler's Gestapo, then it is time that the present director no longer be the director...
Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark-whose personal disagreements with Hoover have flared openly in recent months-said that during his eight years in the Justice Department, he had no knowledge of the FBI's tapping Congressmen's phones. He added that it could conceivably be done without an Attorney General's awareness: "It's a relationship that depends on trust." Kleindienst outlined the procedures involved in authorizing a tap: Hoover must submit a request in writing, which is then reviewed by Mitchell. The signatures of both are required before the FBI can cut into a line...
...course of the interview, the President spoke of his recent intervention in the Calley case, and of criticism directed toward FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover...
Nixon staunchly defended Hoover, saying that many of the charges against him were unfair and malicious. "I have been in police states and the idea that this is a police state is just pure nonsense," he said...