Word: hooverness
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...military-industrial complex that tries to fatten defense spending by inducing U.S. paranoia about the Soviet Union. He told Reagan that the President was in the thrall of a cabal of archconservatives. He claimed that American think tanks, citing the Heritage Foundation in Washington and the Hoover Institution in California, were feeding Reagan plans "designed to break down the Soviet economy." Reagan replied with astonishment to Gorbachev's conspiracy theories. Indeed, he said, he had always operated on the belief that government fouls up anytime it tries to manipulate the economy. Gorbachev, the chief of a state-planned economy...
After J. Edgar Hoover's death, Mark Felt becomes the No. 2 at the FBI but is disappointed he isn't named director...
...Felt's reasons for unmasking himself are a mix of high and low, so too were his apparent motives for talking to Woodward in the first place. After all, Felt was a by-the-book G-man, a ramrod-straight protege of J. Edgar Hoover's who made the FBI his life. In their book, Woodstein, as the Post duo came to be called, portrayed their source as a contradictory character who liked gossip and drink and had grown fiercely disillusioned by the "switchblade mentality" of the Nixon White House. But in a long Washington Post piece last week, presumably...
...official was the one who had leaked to Woodward as a way to protect his beloved FBI from Nixon's efforts to use the agency for political purposes. Deep Throat, wrote Mann, probably resented the appointment of outsider and Nixon loyalist L. Patrick Gray to replace FBI Director Hoover, who had died six weeks before the Watergate break-in, and wanted to blunt White House efforts to suppress the FBI investigation of the burglary. Of course, the FBI under Hoover had its problems with autocratic control and operations outside the normal bounds of law enforcement. In 1980 Felt was convicted...
...typical spy novel fashion, this tale ends on an upbeat note. Oppenheimer finishes far ahead of petty men like Strauss and Hoover. The biography is long, but it is infinitely more satisfying than a Tom Clancy thriller, thanks to Bird and Sherwin’s meticulous character construction. And, even better, the reader doesn’t have to worry about the authors churning out another equally long sequel—at least not for another quarter-century...