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America's Presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it. But only John Adams and Herbert Hoover lived past 90; Ronald Reagan was the third, and perhaps the only one to achieve the goal of dying young as late as possible. When he passed away last week at age 93, he had long been gone from the public stage; but that meant that people remembered him as he had always been, a man of easy grace and endless hope, whose hair would...
Also slipping under administrative radar and passing for education here are left-wing catechisms on such topics as social activism and multiculturalism. In his book Illiberal Education, Hoover Institution research fellow Dinesh D’Souza described a Nov. 1989 French class at Harvard, which “resembled a political rally” and consisted of feminist jokes about severed penises. The College’s great strides in 15 years have produced this semester a course on “Personal Choice and Global Transformation,” which weighs important commentary from “a socially...
...Traditional agents who weren't good on the street were put into intelligence," said Jack Lawn, a veteran FBI agent who later ran the Drug Enforcement Administration. "There was no measure of success on that side. Convictions, fines, savings and recoveries were the things that [J. Edgar] Hoover pounded into us as important...
Many years before 9/11 and its aftermath, the FBI was the focus of concern over its ability to balance the need for security with that of privacy. As this 1949 TIME cover on J. Edgar Hoover shows, that worry extends to the earliest decades of the law-enforcement agency...
...Years Ago in TIME Many years before 9/11 and its aftermath, the FBI was the focus of concern over its ability to balance the need for security with that of privacy. As this 1949 TIME cover on J. Edgar Hoover shows, that worry extends to the earliest decades of the law-enforcement agency...