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...personally they approved of Mr. Sawyer. At least he talked their language. He listened to their complaints. He had his feet on the ground. And after watching him in the Cabinet for 20 months, they were ready to say that he was the best Secretary of Commerce since Herbert Hoover. One Southern businessman commented: "Now if we only had a man like that for President, we'd be all right...
...Secretary's Mirror. The best Secretary of Commerce since Herbert Hoover had been looking in a shaving mirror, generally with satisfaction, for close to half a century. At 62 he was a millionaire, but he still had the reputation of being a frugal man; he considered lavish official entertaining "a waste of money." He lived in a large brick house (rented) on cobbled O Street in fashionable Georgetown, waited on by two servants; he himself was apt as not to answer the door. He had never visited his neighbor, Secretary of State Dean Acheson; until a few weeks...
...records had been destroyed as a matter of routine. The destruction of these records, itself a violation of law, makes it very difficult, of course, for the defense to prove that the Government's case rested on wire-tap information. Could it have been this performance that Mr. Hoover had in mind when he spoke of "an increased circulation of inaccurate information and half-truths on wire-tapping...
...Edgar Hoover's statement on wire tapping by the FBI deserves examination. "In recent weeks," he said on Sunday, "there has been an increased circulation of in-accurate information and half-truths on wire tapping. Statements have been made which are so untrue and legally unsound that I am forced to conclude that they were motivated for the purpose of confusing the public...
...what statements, we wonder, does Mr. Hoover have in mind that are "so untrue and legally unsound" that he is forced to conclude "they were motivated for the purpose of confusing the public?" Mr. Hoover's own statement asserts that "the FBI has less than 170 telephone taps in existence, confined to internal security cases throughout the entire United States and its possessions." The tapping of 170 telephones can involve the private conversations of a great many individuals who do not in the least imperil internal security. Moreover the Communications Act does not authorize the tapping of 170 telephones...