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Peterson’s lecture was rife with self-deprecation—after being introduced as “the most powerful secretary of commerce since Herbert Hoover,” Peterson quipped, “there have been no powerful secretaries of commerce...
...spoke sarcastically of trying to locate the source of his ideas in his past. "It may have something to do with my childhood," he said mockingly. But it's worth noting that Rehnquist was raised in a solidly Republican home and never found reason to reject the Willkie-Hoover-Taft conservatism instilled at the dinner table...
...Brett Hoover of the Ivy League office said that the schedule has not yet been hammered out, but that the first games should be selected by next week...
...loyalist and acting director of the FBI during Watergate, who expressed "total shock" at the disclosure that his former deputy W. Mark Felt was the secret journalistic source Deep Throat; of pancreatic cancer; in Atlantic Beach, Fla. Tapped by Nixon in May 1972, after the death of J. Edgar Hoover, he testified during his 1973 Senate confirmation hearings that he had been turning over FBI files on the Watergate probe to the White House. That prompted Nixon adviser John Ehrlichman to suggest famously that Gray be left to "twist slowly, slowly in the wind." In April 1973, after conceding...
According to its charter, the FBI runs Counterintelligence in the U.S., monitoring the activities of some 1,600 Communist agents; the CIA's work is limited to operations abroad. In J. Edgar Hoover's day, counterespionage was hampered by a lack of cooperation between the FBI and the CIA. "Hoover was difficult and vain," says one former top CIA official. "He thought he could run things by himself...