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...wasn't old enough to vote in the 1928 Presidential election, but I got steamed up about it. At home I had won a prize for an essay supporting Hoover and at College on election night we all went to the Union where Albert Bushnell Hart gave the returns and told us what they meant. It was a sad day for Al Smith. A year later, the Great Depression was on. On the day of the Stock Market Crash there were no Transcripts or Travelers left in the Business School dining hall. Those businessmen, including President Hoover's youngest...
...seen me through senior year and generals), tossed all my college notes into Whitman Hall's second-floor trash barrel, and looked forward to the rest of my life." But the outside world was anything but promising then. The stock market had crashed the previous fall, and Herbert Hoover--still in the Oval Office--was formulating the radical Depression plan suggested by his assessment that "nobody in this country is starving to death." But people were starving to death. And jobs and money were scarce...
...following September, J.J. Gleason, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's New Haven office, wrote to Hoover. Subject: discussions between himself and FBI Assistant Director L.B. Nichols about the Fairfield story "which was derogatory to the Bureau." Gleason warned Hoover that he had received a call from a Yale Daily News reporter, tipping him off that the News planned to run a follow-up story, featuring an interview with Cohen. The post-doctoral student's "identity was known to the Bureau" (FBI-speak for a person who is on file with the FBI), Gleason made sure to note...
...ACCEPTED Buckley's offer, and in October, Nichols--the main FBI speaker--reported the meetings details to Hoover. One full page of that five-page memo was later inked out "to protect the name of an individual interviewed by the FBI." Nichols elaborated, rather proudly, on his ability to dodge questions at the forum. One professor barraged him with questions, Nichols boasted in the memo, and "in answering him I would pick out the part that lent itself to the easiest discussion and then launch into a discussion of the Bureau. There were some questions he asked that I never...
Buckley then wrote to Hoover after the event, stressing, "I don't think you can possibly realize the good that was done here last night...You have contributed more than a dozen classes and a score of periodicals to the enlightening of the student mind on all-important question [sic]." Attached was a blind copy from Buckley of a letter he wrote to Simon suggesting that the Crimson president "exercise a little control over the flamboyance of some of your men." Buckley continued to send blind copies of his correspondence with Simon to FBI officials...