Word: hooverness
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...simple enough. I am invited to the Midland City Festival of the Arts through the efforts of Eliot Rosewater, an eccentric millionaire with the handwriting of a fourteen-year-old, and incidentally, my only fan. After a rather roundabout trip I arrive, only to drive a Pontiac dealer, Dwayne Hoover, insane with the ideas from one of my books. You can imagine my horror; I had never even driven a Pontiac before, and besides, my books had always influenced people to do only one thing: cut out the dirty pictures my publishers put in them and then burn the rest...
Occasionally, Dwayne Hoover is funny. Vonegut created him with bad chemicals in his head and faulty wiring in his nervous system. Dwayne represents the belief that we're all machines with no guarantee, programmed to do whether we happen to be doing, until we go haywire. It's quite amazing he lasted as long as he did. Even before I appear in Midland City, Dwayne Hoover is surrounded by quite a cast of characters. Harry LeSabre, his salesman, is a sometime transvestite who expresses his women's clothes fetish during Hawaiian Week at Dwayne Hoover's Exit Eleven Pontiac Village...
...missing records of FBI wiretaps, including the interception of a Daniel Ellsberg conversation in 1971 that contributed to the dismissal of the Pentagon papers case. On the orders of Robert C. Mardian, then an Assistant Attorney General, the records were taken from the files of FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover by one of his deputies, William Sullivan, and turned over to Mardian. They went from Mardian to the White House office of John Ehrlichman, chief domestic affairs adviser. Whether they were destroyed, which would be a criminal offense, or are still in the White House is not known. TIME also...
...secret files to a shadowy unknown from the White House, of the CIA plunging into an illegal assault on this country's own citizens, of young officials being ordered to tell lies, of the operating head of the FBI burning evidence. "Can you imagine what J. Edgar Hoover would have done with those files if Ehrlichman and Dean had even hinted that he burn them?", chortled a White House survivor...
Mitchell was reluctant to ask Hoover to do this type of snooping again. That led White House aides to set up their own spying operation. They recruited G. Gordon Liddy, a former FBI agent, and E. Howard Hunt Jr., who had worked for the CIA and had written dozens of mystery novels. The hiring of Liddy had been suggested by Egil Krogh, Deputy Assistant for Domestic Affairs, that of Hunt by Presidential Special Counsel Charles W. Colson. Liddy and Hunt became known in the White House as "the plumbers," because they were hired to plug leaks. They later became...