Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edgar Hoover made his name in dogged pursuit of men like John Dillinger and "Pretty Boy" Floyd, but he never went after anybody with the diligence that he devoted to Martin Luther King Jr. Fragmented stories of FBI wiretaps on King have circulated for years, and last week the details of the almost paranoid pursuit were laid before the select Senate Intelligence Committee. Among its findings...
Finally, one must conclude that Air Force One and the marvelous technology that sends it round the globe have become a kind of a presidential hobby, replacing the medicine ball (Hoover) and the stamp collection (F.D.R.). Crew members lather that beautiful plane with Glass Wax before a trip, polish it to a mirror finish with compressed-air buffers and add tire black to the ten wheels. They fill the hold with the tenderest chicken and juiciest steak, packing it all away in dry ice with flawless precision so that each day's meals come...
Robert Kennedy often said that he was satisfied with the Warren Commission's conclusions. During the investigation, he was Attorney General and the boss of J. Edgar Hoover, and he was often consulted by Chief Justice Warren. If dissatisfied, he could readily have shaken up both the FBI and the commission with demands to find out more. Now Senator Edward Kennedy has spoken publicly about the painful topic for the first time in years. Interviewed by TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey, he said: "My brother is gone. He cannot be brought back. With us that has always been the thought...
...Administrations begun by Richard Nixon and continued by Gerald Ford have had an astonishing record of high-level turnovers. The CIA has gone through three directors-Richard Helms, James Schlesinger and William Colby-and will soon have a fourth, George Bush. The FBI has had four chiefs: J. Edgar Hoover, L. Patrick Gray (acting), William Ruckelshaus (acting) and Clarence Kelley. The Office of Management and Budget (formerly the Budget Bureau) has had five directors: Robert Mayo, George Shultz, Caspar Weinberger, Roy Ash and James Lynn...
...folk and moral rectitude that he heard from his grandfather, a voluble old sea captain, Lord fashioned Seth Parker out of pure homespun, introduced him in 1927, soon had an audience of 10 million. For the later, long-running (nine years) Gang Busters, he got permission from J. Edgar Hoover to use stories based on FBI files...