Word: hooverism
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...militant revolutionary group" might try to kill Kennedy on November 22. The Miami police department sent them information, obtained by wiretap, that white racists were planning to kill Kennedy with a rifle. More bitter critics say that the reason Oswald was not taken into custody was that J. Edgar Hoover was upset with Robert Kennedy, who was in Hoover's territory with his organized-crime crusade...
...that the Government had made false statements in support of the evacuation. His new case rested in part on materials obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by Peter Irons, a political scientist at the University of California at San Diego. In one such document, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover stated that he could find no evidence to support the War Department's contention that West Coast Japanese were signaling Japanese warships off the coast...
...foreign policy, Kennedy's performance was somehow deflected, inconsistent. While pronouncing civil rights to be a moral issue, he acquiesced in an FBI investigation of King. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, for decades the lord of his own almost independent principality within the American Government, said that King was associating with Communists. Kennedy and his brother Bobby, then Attorney General, allowed the wiretaps of King 1) to clear King's name and thus disarm Hoover, 2) to see for themselves whether Hoover's suspicions were correct, or 3) both. They did not, however, authorize the bugging that...
...moral and practical necessity to develop a strong defense because the Soviets are already doing it," said Teller, a researcher at Stanford University's Hoover Institute...
Last May, Reagan made yet another move: to replace Berry, Ramirez and Saltzman with three other Democrats, putatively closer to the President's way of thinking. They are Morris Abram, former president of Brandeis University; John Bunzel, senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution; and Robert Destro, law professor at Catholic University. Critics who had held still for the 1981 firings howled that Reagan was trying to pack the commission with a majority that would uncritically approve his civil rights record, and lately have questioned whether he has legal power to dismiss commissioners (the law is unclear). The Senate...