Word: hooverism
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...Patrick Gray III, 61, a career naval officer who served as acting FBI director from May 1972 to April 1973, when he returned to his law practice in Groton, Conn., after withdrawing his name from nomination as J. Edgar Hoover's successor because of growing opposition in the Senate. The chief reason: Gray had destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal...
...Mark Felt, 64, a 31-year FBI veteran and for more than a year the agency's No. 2 man. For a time, Felt was also a possible successor to Hoover. He retired...
...June 1976, one of the team members has disclosed to TIME, they swooped down on Washington's J. Edgar Hoover Building, "virtually with guns drawn," in hopes of seizing evidence before it could be hidden or destroyed. The raiding party took control of a number of rooms, and "we combed the place." Nonetheless, they came away emptyhanded. By granting immunity to 53 FBI agents in exchange for information, Pottinger eventually built a case against members of the FBI's Squad 47, based in the bureau's New York office, which spearheaded the Weatherman investigation...
...Portrait Gallery. In fact, the name C.J. Fox adorns the mediocre likenesses of hundreds of wealthy and famous Americans, both living and dead. They include Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Oilman H.L. Hunt, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, AFL-CIO President George Meany and Francis Cardinal Spellman...
...invitation to play in the Carter White House came soon after the Inauguration, but Pianist Vladimir Horowitz took a rain check. For his second stint at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (he first played there in 1931 for Herbert Hoover), the maestro wanted to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his U.S. debut. And so he did, last week, thundering out fortissimi to an audience packed with the likes of Isaac Stern, Andrés Segovia and Mstislav Rostropovich. Carter, recalling the cherished Horowitz recording he had as a midshipman, said of his guest artist: "A true national treasure...