Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second operation was a reassessment, which I ordered in 1970, of the adequacy of internal security measures. This resulted in a plan and a directive to strengthen our intelligence operations. They were protested by Mr. Hoover [J. Edgar Hoover, the late FBI chief], and as a result of his protest they were not put into effect...
...fact that Hoover could kill any broad intelligence plan, involving other agencies, over the President's wishes is surprising. Who was in charge of the Executive Branch?the President or the FBI chief...
...years that he spent building the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover skillfully made it a national monument, seemingly as solid as the Great Pyramid. In the year since Hoover's death, the FBI has been so riven by internal weaknesses and strife as a result of Watergate that it more closely resembles a disintegrating piece of the Dakota Badlands. Several of its top officials intend to retire in the next four weeks. The bureau's vaunted esprit de corps is in tatters, and the morale of its 8,700 agents has been shattered...
...faults, Hoover kept the FBI safe from the quadrennial quakes of partisan politics. He played politics impartially with Republicans and Democrats to maintain the independence of his empire. His agents knew this and realized how much they benefited from it. Those who could not stomach some of Hoover's autocratic actions got out of the FBI-but they did not talk. Only in his final years was there a split in the ranks between pro-Hoover and anti-Hoover factions, and this was scarcely visible from the outside...
Similar resolutions have been offered against Truman, Hoover (twice), Cleveland, Andrew Johnson and Tyler...