Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Controversial Cop Sir: When J. Edgar Hoover, a public servant, publicly sympathizes with Walter Jenkins, insults a leading citizen, berates a Government agency and vilifies our highest court [Nov. 27], then, sir, his public usefulness has come...
JAMES I. MORTON Madrid Sir: Since Mr. Hoover's outburst, the American people have a right to know whether he is suffering from extreme stress or has personal animosity toward Dr. King-and if he is still competent in his powerful position...
...there not enough honest nonCommunist, non-coward citizens in our country to stand behind J. Edgar Hoover? He is one man in our country who is neither a Communist nor a coward...
Negroes not to report any violations to our Albany, Georgia, agents because they were all Southerners." A check of FBI records, said Hoover, had proved that of five agents in racially torn Albany one was from New York, one from Massachusetts, one from Indiana, one from Minnesota, and one from Georgia. Then Hoover delivered the line that rang round the world. Said he of King: "He is the most notorious liar in the country...
...what had happened to the tight-lipped old G-man. Some felt that, because he will reach the mandatory retirement age of 70 on Jan. 1, this was simply a parting shot before he turned in his badge. Yet Lyndon Johnson signed an executive order last May that allows Hoover to stay on no matter how old he is. Still, it was obvious that Hoover had been chafing for a long time in his unfamiliar role as a Justice Department underling, and his reverberating blast to the newshens was one way to ease that frustration. J. Edgar Hoover has many...