Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about leaks to reporters of National Security Council material. Justifying his involvement in the tapping, Kissinger sounded much like some of the Watergate characters. The "painful but necessary" process, he said, had been approved by the President, the then Attorney General (John Mitchell) and the FBI director (J. Edgar Hoover). "I had been in the Government only four months, and it didn't occur to me to question the judgment of these individuals." Still, some of the Senators remained concerned about the whole distasteful business, and the committee asked the Justice Department to send up its secret report...
...four conservative members are Edward Allen Tamm, 67, a Johnson appointee who once served as right-hand man to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover; George E. MacKinnon, 67, a longtime acquaintance of Richard Nixon; Roger Robb, 66, a Nixon appointee who used to represent Senator James Eastland of Mississippi; and Malcolm Richard Wilkey, 54, a former U.S. Attorney in Houston and onetime counsel for the Kennecott Copper Corp...
...obtain material to break the codes of foreign governments (inevitably, the agency imbued its own efforts with a code name: the Anagram Program) or to tap the telephones of organized-crime figures. Some of the burglaries directed against Mafia types were authorized by various Attorneys General, but J. Edgar Hoover apparently never revealed the full scope of FBI burglarizing to his many bosses. Hoover eventually decided in 1967 that surreptitious entries should be discontinued because they posed more of a risk to the FBI's reputation than he wished to take...
Sullivan had personal reasons for writing his memo. He had apparently been friendly with a number of Nixon officials, and this brought him into conflict with J. Edgar Hoover, who fired him two years ago. Sullivan offered to testify on behalf of the Nixon Administration and "draw a very clear contrast" between its relationship to the bureau and that of previous Administrations. His material, he assured Dean, would put the current Administration in "a very favorable light...
Once nominated, Franklin Roosevelt was as hard to defeat as his cousin Teddy had been. Between 1932 and 1944 FDR, with his 7 letters, over-whelmed Hoover, Landon (3), Willkie (5), and Dewey (3). In 1948 Dewey lost again, this time to Truman...