Word: hooverisms
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...past, "Herbert Hoover and most of the Presidents since, George Schultz, and the heads of major corporations" have been members of the Bohemian Club, according to an aide at the Stanford News Service...
...said that Hunter S. Thompson held a celebration the night J. Edgar Hoover died in the early '70's. Others joined Thompson in their condemnation of Hoover's unwarranted investigations, which included the harassment of Viet Nam protesters, civil rights activists--including Martin Luther King, whose phones were tapped for years--and anyone else with the wrong politics...
Webster's successor at the FBI, former Federal Judge William S. Sessions, simply inherited these investigations from Webster and cannot be held responsible. Nonetheless, he must be careful not to engage in such intrusive, unconscionable activities. For their part, the American people must be careful not to allow another Hoover to gain the power to restrict their freedoms. The FBI is a public organization designed to protect the American people, not a secretive KGB designed to protect the government...
...lost its bearings under J. Edgar Hoover, hounding Martin Luther , King Jr. and running wholesale spy operations against groups that opposed the Viet Nam War. A new and improved agency emerged during William Webster's nine years as director. But there was a palpable sense of deja vu in the air last week. First came news that a black agent had been racially harassed by his white colleagues. Then followed charges that the FBI had conducted wide- ranging surveillance of critics of the Reagan Administration's Central American policy...
George Nash, the Hoover biographer who has trudged a lonely path through the scorned archives of that President, makes a couple of tentative observations in these strange days. Some forces in this world, he notes, cannot be stopped by politicians. And would it not be the ultimate irony if out of our worry now comes more study of and more respect for Herbert Hoover...