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...arrogant and downright vulgar can our Government and its agencies get? Snooping into the private life of great political figures like Dr. Martin Luther King [Aug. 17] is the limit. And as if this were not enough, J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI seems to have attempted blackmail. It is time, indeed, that someone seeks relief in court from Mr. Hoover's disdain for other people's privacy...
Angelo and Los Angeles' Eleanor Hoover, who was moved to write...
...past 44 years. His sledgehammer style is better suited to knocking than building, but he and the News have had their heroes. There was, for instance, Joe McCarthy, who (Maury once told an interviewer) "fought Communists the way we thought they should be fought." There was Herbert Hoover, who "came close to sainthood." And J. Edgar Hoover...
Both high power and achievement ratings, say Winter and Donley, characterize the President who is able to exert the necessary political influence (power) to accomplish his goals (achievement). By contrast, Herbert Hoover-who, according to the investigators, "seemed to lack a 'political sense' "-scores higher in need for achievement (a rating of 4) than in need for power (a rating of 3). This is read to mean that Hoover sought in vain to bring about substantive accomplishments; he lacked the necessary political skill...
Williams has the correct outline of the FBI tape story. What he does not have is precisely what happened at the celebrated meeting between FBI Director Hoover and King in 1964. Hoover, TIME learned, explained to King just what damaging private detail he had on the tapes and lectured him that his morals should be those befitting a Nobel prizewinner. He also suggested that King should tone down his criticism of the FBI. King took the advice. His decline in black esteem followed, a decline scathingly narrated by Williams...