Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While it has been normal for the White House to ask for FBI files on individuals-a request former FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover routinely granted Lyndon Johnson, for instance-there is no public record of the bureau's having been asked to initiate political studies for a President.* Ehrlichman later told TIME that the request for information had gone from his office to the Justice Department and should not have gone to the FBI. If it did, he said, it would violate Administration policy and "would not be condoned by the White House...
...Cubans to Washington first class, showed them a picture of Ellsberg, and told them: "Our mission is to hit him-to call him a traitor and punch him in the nose. Hit him and run." The site chosen was outside the Capitol rotunda, where the body of J. Edgar Hoover was lying in state. The idea was to denounce Ellsberg, who was holding a rally on the steps, and start a riot. As it turned out, the "riot" ended after a brief flurry of punches, most of which landed on Ellsberg's bodyguard...
...business partner, Doris, 69; by self-inflicted carbon monoxide poisoning; in South Pasadena, Calif. Dreyfuss was a young stage designer at the start of the Depression when he turned his talents to industry. During the next four decades he fashioned such everyday items as Big Ben alarm clocks, Hoover vacuum cleaners, Royal typewriters and the Trimline telephone...
Died. Sanford Bates, 88, reform-minded penologist who presided over the massive expansion of the federal prison system during the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations; in Trenton, N.J. A lawyer, Bates was named head of Massachusetts' correctional institutions in 1919, and introduced such innovations as a merit pay system and partial self-government for inmates. When Congress set up the U.S. Bureau of Prisons in 1930, Bates was appointed its first director. He later created model, much-imitated parole systems for New York and New Jersey...
...California voters. Starting far ahead, he let Hubert Humphrey nearly overtake him in 1968, and suffered a setback in the 1970 congressional elections because of an unduly strident campaign. Not much more than a year ago it looked as if he might become the first incumbent President since Herbert Hoover to be turned out of office. But now, for the first time in his scar-studded career, he bestrides the American political arena like a colossus. By every sign, omen and pollster's tally sheet, Nixon and his running mate Spiro Agnew have it made. The President...