Word: hooverizing
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...paunchy gays holding the "Piss on the Pentagon" banner, the toothless fellow dressed up as Uncle Sam advising men to sign up for "Husband's Lib." The rest, a melange, college students for the most part, mixed with a few veterans of other older movements. Past the J. Edgar Hoover Building, home of the FBI, past the Treasury Department, past a few bemused Washingtonians, the march winds on for 45 minutes, spilling out onto the lap of the Capitol, under a shaky wooden stage. A few voices emerge from the sixties to start things off: Rev. William Sloan Coffin...
...would be a fight, right down to the wire. But my guess is they'd pick Hoover. We beat him once, and we can beat him twice...
INTERRUPTING President Carter's televised talk on the economy last Friday night, a home appliance commercial alerted Americans to "National Hoover Week." Carter's words underscored the sponsor's message. Unlike Hoover, however, this president is perhaps overly reconciled to his historic role. "Depression," Carter assures us. "is just around the corner...
Viorst never says much about the FBI's attempts to "destroy and neutralize the New Left" through its counterintelligence programs. He doesn't mention its plan to divide and dissolve the New Left through a campaign of misinformation, instigation, and harassment. Nor does he mention that J. Edgar Hoover, then director of the FBI and the de facto trigger of American justice, instructed his agents to "prevent the rise of the messiah who could unify and electrify the militant Black nationalist group. Martin Luther King...aspires to this position. King could be a very real pretender for this position should...
...Take him off his pedestal," Hoover said, "and reduce him completely in influence," and replace King with another, more impotent Black leader...