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...believes that Truman was forced to choose the last of three possible alternatives. Since Hoover insisted that under no circumstances could the charges against White be made public, Truman would appear in the position of "destroying the life and career of an apparently able and respected official. White was a skilled infighter and would have raised hell about this. There is no question in my mind that White was leaking information, but I doubt if it could have been proven...
Cherington nurses grave doubts about Hoover's role in the White case. "The use of the head of secret police as a witness for political purposes is a portent of things to come. Mr. Hoover possesses files which in times of excitement, passion and departure from due process of law could be used as the justification for imprisoning half a million Americans in concentration campus. I think the FBI now in a position to become the police arm of a McCarthy dictatorship. I think Mr. Hoover is quite capable of operating in this fashion. Despite his denials, Mr. Hoover...
...Elizabeth Bentley never saw White," Schlesinger continues, "Her evidence was all hearsay. But Bentley did work directly with Silvermaster, and Ullmann. Since J. Edgar Hoover says everything she says is true, why not indict these...
Schlesinger admits that Truman resorted to "a careless, slothful kind of action to get White out of his hair," but criticizes Brownell and Hoover who "seven years later; on the basis of much better evidence, are failing to take as drastic action as they expected Truman to take...
...when you find an opponent with a wooden leg you force him from side to side, forward and back. You want to tire him. In politics you do much the same thing. The Democrats for twenty years thought they had a man with a wooden leg in Herbert Hoover. Now the Republicans have found their man with a wooden leg: Harry Truman...