Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...According to J. Edgar Hoover, who was "the most notorious liar in the country," a "moral degenerate," and probably also a "secret Communist...
...speech was the opening event in a "Festival on the American Presidency" which is a joint effort of the Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson libraries...
Beginning with the noblest of motives-examination of the roots and consequences of the Viet Nam War-this vigorous, chaotic documentary manipulates time for its own ends. The bombing of Haiphong harbor, John Foster Dulles' domino theory, J. Edgar Hoover's fears of "common-ists," a brutal football game, '40s war movies-all flow back and forth like sand in an hourglass. The confusion is deliberate. Hearts and Minds, says Producer-Director Peter Davis, "is not a chronology of war so much as a study of people's feelings...
...undertaking. On top of that, Nixon's personal papers were in many cases not worth the paper they were printed on. Crucial material that might have proved useful to historians was missing. Gone, for example, were files of correspondence with Presidents John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Herbert Hoover, Chief Justice Earl Warren, House Speaker Sam Ray burn and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Some boxes were filled with nothing but newspaper clippings. Newman proved to be an accurate prophet when he once wrote about his profession: "I assure you that there isn't any dodge that some...
...conclusions are drawn, the questions must be answered. But when Mark Lane participates in a panel discussion with someone like Boston radio personality Mae Brussel, giving the weight of his presence to her completely unsupported allegation that the SLA kidnapping of Patty Hearst, the death of J. Edgar Hoover--which she terms murder--and the events of November 22, 1963, are all linked, he minimizes the credibility of his own work...