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...stridently partisan approach in the 1970 campaign, the President was the very model of cool statesmanship. First, Bob Hope primed the well-heeled audiences: "I didn't make any phone calls [when I stayed at the White House]; it was just a thrill to hear J. Edgar Hoover breathing." Then the President sounded the theme that is going to be emphasized throughout the campaign: "Peace in Our Generation." But peace with honor. America, Nixon warned, must stay strong. He made a pitch for his domestic programs: revenue sharing, welfare reform, Government reorganization. "They are historic. They are revolutionary...
...issues he raised in the campaign, McCarthy says, were heretical then but are accepted now. Even House minority leader Gerald Ford, he notes, wants to see J. Edgar Hoover retire. "But when Gerry Ford is just three years behind you," McCarthy says, "you know you weren't really ahead of your time." The Candidate earns his first laugh on that...
...retains veto power over all casting, a Special Agent takes part in all the series's script conferences and is permanently assigned to supervise the shooting, and the final scripts are sent to Washington for approval. Hoover watches the show faithfully, and he told a Congressional subcommittee that he felt, the show was useful in maintaining the Buerau's image. When Sen. John Pastore (D-R.I.) began an inquiry into the effects of violence on television. Hoover called producer Quinn Martin, and the violence on "The FBI" dipped: "We have made an adjustment," Martin said later...
...social control and phone tapping image projection used against radical groups is the mission of the vast political intelligence apparatus of the FBI. Hoover began gathering political intelligence after an order in 1936 by Franklin D. Roosevelt charging him to prepare for war by amassing information on groups likely to commit sabotage in the event of war. John Elliff termed this order the "Magna Carta of domestic intelligence." Hoover has operated on its authority ever since...
...Bureau has for years published an FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, directed at local police officials and rural sheriffs (the Bulletin is not to be shown to laymen, and carries a warning to that effect in each issue; it is intended for policemen alone). The Bulletin includes articles by Hoover and his associates along with tips on scientific crime detection, political analyses with a law-and-order theme (one recent issue carried an article by Supreme Court nominee Lewis F. Powell), and plugs for the FBI's police aid and training programs such as the FBI National Crime Information Center...