Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Director John Edgar Hoover has been a Washington institution nearly as long as the Lincoln Memorial (41 years v. 43) and, particularly over the past year, has weathered plenty of criticism. But the old crime fighter and Communist hunter sticks by his tommy guns, as he displayed in testimony released last week, before a House appropriations subcommittee...
...Oblique Rap. Hoover placed much of the blame for rising crime rates on the courts: "I have often said there is too much concern on the part of our federal, state and local courts for the rights of the individual charged with a crime. I think he is entitled to his civil rights, but I think the citizens of this country ought to be able to walk all of the streets of our cities without being mugged, raped or robbed. The rights of the law-abiding citizens are not being given sufficient consideration. In my opinion the courts in some...
...gripes against police, including police complaint departments, local and federal courts and the FBI. The International Association of Chiefs of Police, which represents the nation's local law-enforcement officers, is dead set against review boards. So is the nation's top cop, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover. Reporting on last summer's violent riots in Rochester and Philadelphia, the only two U.S. cities with review boards, Hoover declared: "The police were so careful to avoid accusations of improper conduct that they were virtually paralyzed. The rioters were thereby emboldened to resist and completely defy the efforts...
...International Communism and expel all the pinkos and homosexuals from the State Department. Goldwater thrived on the Republican platform platitudes of the early 1950's--the declamations against big spending, big government, unbalanced budgets and inflation--all the defiant orthodoxy of the 1930's, originally designed to prove that Hoover had been right in 1932. To this Goldwater, William Miller, among many others added outraged attacks on Communism, Corruption, and Korea...
From the Pulpit. Lyndon Johnson himself seemed to sense the moment as he studied the faces that gazed at him. In the visitors' gallery were Lady Bird, Lynda (Luci stayed home to study), and their guest J. Edgar Hoover; on the House floor were scores of former colleagues, the Cabinet, Chief Justice Warren and four Associate Justices of the Supreme Court. Other faces were conspicuous for their absence. The entire congressional delegations of Mississippi and Virginia and a host of fellow Southerners had deliberately stayed away...