Word: hooverizings
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...bombed as a diversionary tactic to cover a raid to seize some politically damaging documents; leaking information to LIFE for a story in 1970 that helped defeat Maryland's Demoera tic Senator Joseph Tydings; proposing that demonstrators posing as antiwar activists disrupt the funeral services for J. Edgar Hoover in May 1972, which would have outraged Hoover's many supporters and hurt McGovern...
...pitching. He hit his record 60 in 1927, 54 more in 1928 and then, after the stock-market crash in 1929, held out for what seemed to be a stupendous salary: $80,000. He was counseled against the move by a sportswriter whose principal argument was that President Herbert Hoover was only making $75,000. With irrefutable logic, Ruth replied, "Yeah, but I had a better year than...
...about leaks to reporters of National Security Council material. Justifying his involvement in the tapping, Kissinger sounded much like some of the Watergate characters. The "painful but necessary" process, he said, had been approved by the President, the then Attorney General (John Mitchell) and the FBI director (J. Edgar Hoover). "I had been in the Government only four months, and it didn't occur to me to question the judgment of these individuals." Still, some of the Senators remained concerned about the whole distasteful business, and the committee asked the Justice Department to send up its secret report...
...four conservative members are Edward Allen Tamm, 67, a Johnson appointee who once served as right-hand man to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover; George E. MacKinnon, 67, a longtime acquaintance of Richard Nixon; Roger Robb, 66, a Nixon appointee who used to represent Senator James Eastland of Mississippi; and Malcolm Richard Wilkey, 54, a former U.S. Attorney in Houston and onetime counsel for the Kennecott Copper Corp...
...obtain material to break the codes of foreign governments (inevitably, the agency imbued its own efforts with a code name: the Anagram Program) or to tap the telephones of organized-crime figures. Some of the burglaries directed against Mafia types were authorized by various Attorneys General, but J. Edgar Hoover apparently never revealed the full scope of FBI burglarizing to his many bosses. Hoover eventually decided in 1967 that surreptitious entries should be discontinued because they posed more of a risk to the FBI's reputation than he wished to take...