Word: hoovers
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Emerging from a White House conference with Nixon, Mitchell and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, Republican Congressional leaders predicted that Congress will give Nixon what he wants by attaching the necessary language to a Senate-passed anti-crime bill now being considered by the House Judiciary Committee...
...think it will have a beneficial effect," said Gerald Ford, House Republican leader, adding that Hoover had told him SDS was directly involved in 247 arson cases and 462 personal injury incidents during the past year. There were also about 300 other miscellaneous episodes of destruction to other facilities or property, Ford said. Ford added that "the tragic bombing at the University of Wisconsin" and other incidents of campus terrorism which "have increased in number, tempo, and seriousness" have contributed to a deep concern in the Justice Department...
...arrogant and downright vulgar can our Government and its agencies get? Snooping into the private life of great political figures like Dr. Martin Luther King [Aug. 17] is the limit. And as if this were not enough, J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI seems to have attempted blackmail. It is time, indeed, that someone seeks relief in court from Mr. Hoover's disdain for other people's privacy...
MICHAEL B. HOOVER Atlanta...
Both high power and achievement ratings, say Winter and Donley, characterize the President who is able to exert the necessary political influence (power) to accomplish his goals (achievement). By contrast, Herbert Hoover-who, according to the investigators, "seemed to lack a 'political sense' "-scores higher in need for achievement (a rating of 4) than in need for power (a rating of 3). This is read to mean that Hoover sought in vain to bring about substantive accomplishments; he lacked the necessary political skill...