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...Year: Public Enemy No. 1. J. Edgar Hoover...
...friendship with Kennedy apparently came when FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, whose sleuths learned of the affair during their investigation of Giancana and Roselli, had lunch with Kennedy at the White House on March 22, 1962. No one knows what the two discussed during the time that they were alone. But Hoover had made a point of being briefed beforehand about Judith Campbell's disconcerting friendships with both gangsters and a President. And according to White House logs, the last known telephone call between J.F.K. and Judy came only a few hours after the luncheon...
When J. Edgar Hoover stared at public-enemy posters, each mug shot was really a mirror...
...freewheeling days of J. Edgar Hoover are over. Now Congress and the Executive branch must find ways to limit the FBI's activities and prevent future abuses of its vast powers. Last week several experts gave their recommendations to Democrat Frank Church's Senate Intelligence Committee. The proposals fell into four categories...
LIMITED TENURE. The committee probably will adopt the recommendation of several witnesses that Congress set a limit to an FBI director's term. Recalling Hoover's 48-year tenure, Ruckelshaus urged that a director be restricted to eight or nine years. Clark recommended four years, starting at the mid-point of a presidential term to ease the danger of Presidents and directors becoming too cozy. In fact, the Senate voted last spring to limit the director's term to ten years. A bill setting a 15-year limit is now before the House Judiciary Committee, which will...