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...ubiquitous as the telephone and almost as old. Wiretapping by past Presidents of both political parties seems to have been more widespread, with fewer safeguards and looser standards, than under Nixon." He points out that the program to tap the 17 individuals was recommended by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, approved by Attorney General Mitchell and ordered by Nixon. "My office did not supply all the names nor was it aware of every wiretap," he writes. Nonetheless, Kissinger concludes, "while electronic surveillance is widely used in democracies, the wiretapping of one's associates presents an especially painful human problem...
...wrong with such shows (at least compared to what they compete with except that they have so little to do with the way the FBI actually works Garrow's book, on the other hand, although perhaps too well-written and well-documented, would make an excellent pilot episode for Hoover's FBI. The Real Story...
...score would then switch to J. Edgar Hoover describing the complex rationale behind his efforts to get King's nighttime activities on film. As Hoover wrote in a confidential FBI memo when King won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. "King could well qualify for the 'top alley cat' prize. "Of course, Hoover was not concerned only with the sexual practices of King to whom he referred consistently in internal FBI memos as "that moral degenerate." As was revealed shortly after Hoover's death, one of the chief's greatest pet projects was using FBI agents to closely monitor...
Livening up the show would be candid footage of the real FBI at work. Cut to Hoover reading the daily paper and writing in the margin of a news story, "I am amazed the Pope gave an audience to such a degenerate. "Cut to Sullivan expounding on the Bureau's standards of proof; "It may be unrealistic to limit ourselves as we have been doing to legalistic proofs or evidence that would stand up in court." Cut to a G-man calling up the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and under the pretext of being a potential contributor, pumping them about...
...Reagan ran into significant groups of protesters on the road. Shivering in the 10° cold, some 2,000 demonstrators, including students, auto workers, Indians and blacks, waved placards outside of Reagan's Bloomington, Minn., rally. Some signs tagged him as PRESIDENT HOOVER. In Iowa, Reagan critics held up antibudget slogans Like NANCY GETS RED DRESSES, WE GET PINK SLIPS. In Indiana, Democratic legislators wore buttons reading "12.4%"-the state's unadjusted December unemployment rate...