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...Washington, FBI Boss J. Edgar Hoover asked a House Appropriations subcommittee for an increase of $6.700,000 this year, giving his department a total budget of $77 million. Among his reasons for the increase: the need for more agents because "enemy espionage rings are more intensively operated today than they have been at any previous time in the history of the country...
...took a fourth-floor walkup overlooking Trafalgar Square to "have a front seat on the revolution." But he felt cheated: "The revolution came but nobody noticed." He lives there now with his wife, Helen, who says she has to run the Hoover over him every morning" to clean off his cigarette ashes. Married for 49 years, the Swaffers are childless...
...President's proposal got a warm bipartisan reception in both Houses of Congress, even though it was essentially the same as a plan sent up by Harry Truman in 1950. (Like Truman's, Ike's plan was based on recommendations of the Hoover Commission.) Truman was turned down because Republicans, many Democrats and the powerful American Medical Association mistrusted his Fair Dealing Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing, the man who would have got the Cabinet job in 1950. Congress suspected that Truman and Ewing would use the proposed Cabinet job for further expansion of the bureaucracy...
...Opposition. They soon discovered the error of their judgment. Young Bob measured up to the La Follette tradition, but in his own way. He baited Cal Coolidge for not doing enough to aid the farmers. He attacked Herbert Hoover's Treasury Secretary Andy Mellon for cutting taxes. In 1931, alarmed by mounting unemployment, he warned: "Congress should devote its energies ... to the enactment of a relief program . . . The time has come for Congress to assert its leadership." Young Bob soon took his place in the G.O.P. opposition with such towering progressives as Hiram Johnson and George Norris...
Beria, he said, is a combination of J. Edgar Hoover and Joe McCarthy. He has great power as a "guardian of ideological purity and as a public accuser," but only so long as there is someone to listen to him. Up to now, this person has been Stalin, but without Stalin, Meyer said, Beria's position looks "shaky...