Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the FBI made its first arrests in the Brink's heist in Boston, Edgar Hoover's announcement, carried by both national wire services prematurely declared that "intensive investigation by the FBI for the past six years has resulted in the solution of the million dollar Brink's robbery. Of the eleven members of the gang responsible for the robbery, the FBI this morning arrested six." When word leaked to the Chicago Daily News that two of the six cops arrested for burglary in 1960 were ready to talk in exchange for lighter sentences, the paper refused...
...There has been a lot of discussion as to whether J. Edgar Hoover should be asked to resign from the FBI after his recent remarks about Martin Luther King and the Warren Report," wrote Syndicated Columnist Art Buchwald last week. "I can now reveal for the first time why President Johnson can't ask J. Edgar Hoover to resign. The reason is J. Edgar Hoover doesn't exist. He is a mythical person first thought up by the Reader's Digest.'" Buchwald went on to develop his theme: that even the name was a phony, attached...
...usual, Buchwald was only kidding. But his column, syndicated in 207 newspapers, reaches millions of readers, not all of whom saw through his whimsical jape. Soon newspapers all over were fielding telephone calls from anxious subscribers seeking assurance that there really was a J. Edgar Hoover, or angrily offering to prove Buchwald wrong. "Hundreds took Buchwald seriously, and thought he was just misinformed," reported the Austin (Tex.) Statesman...
GOLDWATER: There's another important thing, Dick. I'm sure you realize that except for the President here, we Republicans haven't had a winning candidate since Hoover. Now I'm sure of why that is: it seems to me that because we have put up "me-too" candidates, the voters who are our real strength, the conservative backbone of the nation, stayed home and didn't vote. These people are a majority of the country. Now last time, unfortunately, a bit of bad weather here and there kept some of them away from the polls. And of course...
...Hoover said he had no plans for imminent retirement, chuckled at speculation that his fuss with King might force his leavetaking. Said he: "I intend to remain active because I just don't like the rocking-chair life...