Word: hooverness
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Indeed, he considered it more a clumsy attempt at flattery by the President, who privately bragged to top aides that he had Petersen "on a short leash," than an actual job offer. Later Nixon appoint ed Clarence Kelley as permanent successor to the late J. Edgar Hoover...
Perhaps even more unsettling is the idea that even the"heavies" don't stay put. Thus it was not all that easy rapidly to assimilate the image of J. Edgar Hoover as the tenacious civil rights champion during the era of the short-lived Huston Plan. But as this college class has come to know, with the right kinds of effort almost anything can be accomplished...
...resentment when he learned that his office had been bugged during his losing campaign to be elected Governor of California in 1962. During his campaign for the presidency in 1968, said Nixon, "there was not only surveillance by the FBI but bugging by the FBI, and [J. Edgar] Hoover told me that my plane in the last two weeks was bugged." (The President offered no reasons for the buggings...
...ALICE L. HOOVER...
...inveighs his way along the road of life-chumming up with every hobo or sheepherder he encounters and detesting most churchmen, policemen and lawyers-a sad conclusion grows. It is all very well to be down on the sanctimonious likes of John Foster Dulles, J. Edgar Hoover and Francis Cardinal Spellman (his top three detestees). But Douglas, the longest-sitting Justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court (1939 through the present), has grown disconcertingly righteous about his lifelong anti-Establishment views...