Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...call me "Archie Bunker" and cram the Bill of Rights down my throat, and in theory, at least, I'd probably agree with you. But I'm one American who was glad to have had Hoover-instigated FBI surveillance and harassment of such groups as the Black Panthers and the S.D.S...
Heterosexual, homosexual, asexual or whatever-when will we learn it is not really relevant? Unlike Hoover, can we keep our noses out of other people's bedrooms? The only result of such snooping, finger pointing and sexual labeling is character assassination, alienation and damage done to snooper and snoopee alike...
...imagine that the only thing that could save Hoover's reputation with most of the press would be the discovery that he was a homosexual and a crypto-Communist...
...your story about J. Edgar Hoover, I am identified as an "outraged defender" of Mr. Hoover's. You quote me as having said that Hoover "had only one motive. That was to make the FBI the finest investigative agency in the world." To the best of my knowledge, I never made that statement, and if I did I was clearly wrong...
...Hoover's motives was to build "the finest investigative agency in the world," but certainly many of the things he did had to come from far less admirable instincts. Because this is so obvious, I saw little use in joining the chorus of self-righteous decriers of Hoover's actions before the Church committee. Instead, I have recommended that we never again place that much power in one man's hands, as inevitably the results will be the same or worse...