Word: hooverness
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...treasured Treasury Secretary, John Connally. For the President even to consider such an odyssey is firm reinforcement of Connally's towering stature in Washington. Indeed, it was Connally who carried the President's wreath of carnations and cornflowers to the Abraham Lincoln catafalque on which J. Edgar Hoover lay in state last week. That and the splashy Texas party left no doubt as to where nominal Democrat Connally stands in Nixon's affections...
JOHN EDGAR HOOVER'S death at 77 refreshed memories of an extraordinary fund of Americana-a long, single-minded and complicated life that became a unique national presence. Hoover and the FBI were one-creator and creation. He served eight Presidents as the world's most powerful policeman. With a genius for administration and popular myth, he fashioned his career as an improbable bureaucratic morality play peopled by bad guys and G-men. The drama worked well enough when everyone agreed on the villains-"Pretty Boy" Floyd, John Dillinger, Nazi agents-but finally curdled somewhat in more ambiguous...
...time to face facts: Hoover's vaunted success in combatting crime was largely phony. The reputation of his Bureau is built on juggled statistics and skillful public relations. For only in the area of winning public favor did this extraordinary bureaucrat show any talent or originality. For nearly forty years, he bombarded the voters with FBI books, movies, radio shows, comic strips, and television series--all produced by independent companies but carefully censored by the Bureau. The propaganda took; most Americans accepted Hoover as a crusading savior. Few looked beyond to see him as he was: a clever, reactionary bureaucrat...
...agent force is more than 9000, and it is about to move into palatial new headquarters in Washington. The agency will remain strong and active, and the new director appointed by the present Administration--whoever he may be--will surely be more than willing to continue and expand Hoover's game of political spying and intimidation...
...Hoover shaped our history as few individuals have, and his Bureau will continue that shaping. As long as the government seeks to suppress dissent and destroy movements for social change, J. Edgar Hoover's spirit will be with...