Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your May 14 story [on Watergate] you stated: "Angered, Hoover telephoned Kleindienst and threatened to reveal these embarrassing taps...
Without qualification of any kind, I categorically state that no such telephone conversation took place between me and Mr. Hoover. I further categorically state that I have no personal knowledge about such taps...
...startling shifts of viewpoint. Conservative Sage Barry Goldwater produced one of the first surprises when he turned against Richard Nixon and declared that the Watergate mess "smells." Goldwater was wryly saluted by Columnist William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter, as "the liberals' favorite conservative." Not so. J. Edgar Hoover now looks upright and independent by comparison to L. Patrick Gray III. Even Vice President Agnew inspired the Washington Post to contemplate the prospect of a Nixon retirement and observe that his successor might not be so bad: "Many Democrats [might support] him out of resignation or relief...
...simple enough. I am invited to the Midland City Festival of the Arts through the efforts of Eliot Rosewater, an eccentric millionaire with the handwriting of a fourteen-year-old, and incidentally, my only fan. After a rather roundabout trip I arrive, only to drive a Pontiac dealer, Dwayne Hoover, insane with the ideas from one of my books. You can imagine my horror; I had never even driven a Pontiac before, and besides, my books had always influenced people to do only one thing: cut out the dirty pictures my publishers put in them and then burn the rest...
Occasionally, Dwayne Hoover is funny. Vonegut created him with bad chemicals in his head and faulty wiring in his nervous system. Dwayne represents the belief that we're all machines with no guarantee, programmed to do whether we happen to be doing, until we go haywire. It's quite amazing he lasted as long as he did. Even before I appear in Midland City, Dwayne Hoover is surrounded by quite a cast of characters. Harry LeSabre, his salesman, is a sometime transvestite who expresses his women's clothes fetish during Hawaiian Week at Dwayne Hoover's Exit Eleven Pontiac Village...