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...drunkenness, Freeh issued a blistering Alcohol Policy memo warning agents that even off-duty misconduct caused by drinking will have "harsh consequences," up to dismissal. Even when drinking moderately at a social function, G-men and -women must arrange for a designated driver. Freeh, says one, is "J. Edgar Hoover with kids...
...much to the story -- flivvers and floozies, irate wives and an occasional perforated lawman, plus a misty death scene for each of the heroes. The novel's true subject, to the lighthearted extent that it has one, is mythology itself. With the headline-hungry FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover promoting Floyd to No. 2 and then No. 1 on his new invention, the Most Wanted List, Charley's life becomes a legend before he is finished living...
After amassing considerable wealth during the 1920s by building pipelines for privately held oil and gas companies, Bechtel was hired by the government to build the Hoover Dam, in Boulder, Col. From the beginning, the company's business practices were suspect...
...press (though he himself was a dedicated leaker to favored reporters). And so when he first ordered an unannounced air raid against communist bases in Cambodia in April 1969, he was furious to read about it in a Washington dispatch in the New York Times. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover told the President that the only way to find the leaker was to start tapping phones. When Nixon entered the White House and dismantled the elaborate taping system that Johnson had installed, Hoover told him that the FBI, on Johnson's orders, had bugged Nixon's campaign plane. Now Nixon...
...should come as no surprise that men who served as President of the U.S. have appeared more than 200 times on our cover -- some more often than others. Herbert Hoover was the only occupant of the Oval Office since TIME began in 1923 who was not on our cover, although he was portrayed there before and after his presidency. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won an unprecedented four presidential elections, was our cover subject a mere nine times. By contrast, two-termer Ronald Reagan was pictured on 44 of our domestic covers...