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...Despite all the current hullabaloo over J. Edgar Hoover [Oct. 25], it is evident that the bureau goes right along with its job, impressively directed. There's a growing cancer of distrust in society, from corn flakes to cars, Pentagon papers to pressed beef, police to press, all are being subject to self-styled revelators. Much of this merely gives aid and comfort to the enemy-crime...
...Hoover alone, for it is the FBI alone that in many respects stands between us and trouble...
...Germany. Russia or Cuba had an FBI directed by J. Edgar Hoover, the chances are that such names as Hitler, Stalin and Castro would never have made headlines, and that this world would be a better place to live...
There's a theory of American politics that's been kicking around for a long time. It says essentially that a change in American political coalitions takes place every 36 years. Most historians agree that the last major change took place in 1932, the year FDR defeated Herbert Hoover...
...left. "The radical left, strongly led and with a growing base of support, is plotting violence and revolution," he wrote recently. "Its leaders visit and collaborate with foreign Communist enemies." To combat such activities the Government should be freely able to tap telephones. These views so pleased J. Edgar Hoover that he had Powell's statement reprinted in the FBI law-enforcement bulletin. Nixon, too, was presumably satisfied. Powell is not only a great Virginian, he said, but "a very great American...