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...view of the Mississippi arrests, criticism directed against FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by civil rights groups could be expected to subside. Although Hoover had drawn such fire by an intemperate attack upon the Rev. Martin Luther King, he last week agreed to King's suggestion that the two talk over their differences. The 70-minute meeting in Hoover's Washington office seemed to cool the controversy and, reported King, led to "a much clearer understanding on both sides...
Neither man really retreated. King told Hoover that he still thought that, while "the FBI can arrest on the spot in other cases, it seems slower to act in civil rights cases." After the meeting King told newsmen that he still feels that "justice delayed is justice denied- but I'm not going to criticize the past...
JAMES I. MORTON Madrid Sir: Since Mr. Hoover's outburst, the American people have a right to know whether he is suffering from extreme stress or has personal animosity toward Dr. King-and if he is still competent in his powerful position...
...there not enough honest nonCommunist, non-coward citizens in our country to stand behind J. Edgar Hoover? He is one man in our country who is neither a Communist nor a coward...
...submitted budget requests totaling more than $108 billion for next year, that there will be "a good many reductions," but that he "rather doubts" that he can hold the budget below $100 billion. Asked about the criticism of Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Johnson took a conciliatory tack, said that he hoped "that this would not degenerate into a battle of personalities." He smiled widely as he spoke on the healthy state of the economy, while aides bustled on and off the porch bearing charts like Wagnerian spear carriers. The President predicted...