Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...served in the late 1940s on the first Hoover Commission on U S Government Organization after working in the Office of Strategic Service during World...
Wills' point in rehashing all this is to claim that J.F.K.'s private behavior crippled him and his brother Robert in their public roles. Neither the President nor his Attorney General could cross or restrain FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, for fear of what he knew and might leak...
...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...
...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...