Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Specifically, the White House wanted a return to many of the more questionable FBI practices stopped by Hoover in 1966-the illegal entry and burglary of suspects' houses and a greatly expanded use of wiretaps against political subversives. From the start, Hoover tried to scuttle the committee and the Administration's objectives, both of which he saw as rebukes to his agency...
When the report was finally finished, Hoover, as chairman, passed it along to Nixon, but only after he had detailed in footnotes his objections to virtually every proposal. When Nixon ignored his protests and ordered the suggestions put into effect on July 23, 1970, Hoover got on the phone to San Clemente and in strong terms told the President of his disapproval. Finally, Nixon knuckled under and ordered that the recommendations for expanded intelligence operations be disregarded...
Wrenches. In retrospect, it would have been far better for all concerned had Nixon either overruled or replaced Hoover, because the alternative he decided upon was to set up his own team of White House snoopers, answerable to only a handful of Administration officials. His subsequent problems can largely be traced to that single decision...
...Justice Department, the closest U.S. equivalent to a national police force. FBI has jurisdiction over wide range of crimes from assassination of a President to bank robbery, kidnaping and transportation of stolen cars. Since 1936, has had jurisdiction over espionage and sabotage within the U.S. J. Edgar Hoover, director from 1924 until his death last year, expanded FBI authority to in vestigate Communists, Ku Klux Klansmen, radical students and other ele ments he considered a threat to national security. The bureau's latest assign ment: getting to the bottom of the so-called Watergate scandal...
...came to the White House at the tail end of the effort to establish the special security unit [in July 1970]. They were fighting with [FBI Director J. Edgar] Hoover...