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Picking the Bones of Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jan. 12, 1976 | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...take a onetime national hero, J. Edgar Hoover [Dec. 22], and after he is dead, you dig him up and bury him in a different grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jan. 12, 1976 | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...astounded that you should stoop to pick the bones of J. Edgar Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jan. 12, 1976 | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...call me "Archie Bunker" and cram the Bill of Rights down my throat, and in theory, at least, I'd probably agree with you. But I'm one American who was glad to have had Hoover-instigated FBI surveillance and harassment of such groups as the Black Panthers and the S.D.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jan. 12, 1976 | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

Heterosexual, homosexual, asexual or whatever-when will we learn it is not really relevant? Unlike Hoover, can we keep our noses out of other people's bedrooms? The only result of such snooping, finger pointing and sexual labeling is character assassination, alienation and damage done to snooper and snoopee alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jan. 12, 1976 | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

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