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...Edgar Hoover made his name in dogged pursuit of men like John Dillinger and "Pretty Boy" Floyd, but he never went after anybody with the diligence that he devoted to Martin Luther King Jr. Fragmented stories of FBI wiretaps on King have circulated for years, and last week the details of the almost paranoid pursuit were laid before the select Senate Intelligence Committee. Among its findings...
...After TIME selected King as its Man of the Year (Jan. 3, 1964), Assistant FBI Director William Sullivan sent a plan to Hoover for dealing with King by "taking him off his pedestal and reducing his influence." With King discredited, Sullivan wrote, the FBI could promote another black man as the leader of the civil rights movement. That man, a relatively unknown New York attorney and a Republican, only recently learned of the plan; he was stunned and asked the committee not to reveal his name...
...anonymously sent to King's wife Coretta a tape of some bedroom conversations that had been secretly recorded while King was traveling. Such a tape was a prized possession of Hoover's, and he once had it played for Lyndon Johnson, who in turn entertained reporters with his version of King's extramarital conquests...
Finally, one must conclude that Air Force One and the marvelous technology that sends it round the globe have become a kind of a presidential hobby, replacing the medicine ball (Hoover) and the stamp collection (F.D.R.). Crew members lather that beautiful plane with Glass Wax before a trip, polish it to a mirror finish with compressed-air buffers and add tire black to the ten wheels. They fill the hold with the tenderest chicken and juiciest steak, packing it all away in dry ice with flawless precision so that each day's meals come...
Robert Kennedy often said that he was satisfied with the Warren Commission's conclusions. During the investigation, he was Attorney General and the boss of J. Edgar Hoover, and he was often consulted by Chief Justice Warren. If dissatisfied, he could readily have shaken up both the FBI and the commission with demands to find out more. Now Senator Edward Kennedy has spoken publicly about the painful topic for the first time in years. Interviewed by TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey, he said: "My brother is gone. He cannot be brought back. With us that has always been the thought...