Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view of the Mississippi arrests, criticism directed against FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by civil rights groups could be expected to subside. Although Hoover had drawn such fire by an intemperate attack upon the Rev. Martin Luther King, he last week agreed to King's suggestion that the two talk over their differences. The 70-minute meeting in Hoover's Washington office seemed to cool the controversy and, reported King, led to "a much clearer understanding on both sides...
Neither man really retreated. King told Hoover that he still thought that, while "the FBI can arrest on the spot in other cases, it seems slower to act in civil rights cases." After the meeting King told newsmen that he still feels that "justice delayed is justice denied- but I'm not going to criticize the past...
...part, Hoover contended that the FBI is an investigative agency, which often cannot act without Justice Department instructions. He later expanded on that theme in an interview with former Associated Press Correspondent Don Whitehead, author of The FBI Story. "I don't enjoy a controversy, and I don't go looking for one," said Hoover. "But I cannot let attacks on the FBI go unchallenged when they are unjustified." He complained that civil rights groups "want us to be bodyguards and to give personal protection, but that is impossible. Our agents cannot be used as instruments for social...
...said Hoover, "is to gather facts when there is an indication that a federal law has been violated. These facts are presented to the Department of Justice and the department decides whether there will be or will not be a prosecution. An FBI agent is not authorized to pass judgment on the guilt or innocence of a person. He can only gather the facts and let the facts speak for themselves. If he were allowed to become an investigator, judge and jury all in one, then we would have no constitutional law enforcement. We would have a police state...
...submitted budget requests totaling more than $108 billion for next year, that there will be "a good many reductions," but that he "rather doubts" that he can hold the budget below $100 billion. Asked about the criticism of Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Johnson took a conciliatory tack, said that he hoped "that this would not degenerate into a battle of personalities." He smiled widely as he spoke on the healthy state of the economy, while aides bustled on and off the porch bearing charts like Wagnerian spear carriers. The President predicted...