Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explanation, the President told Moore that the investigation of Ellsberg could not have been left to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, since FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover "could not be counted on doing it because Mr. Hoover was a close friend of Mr. Ellsberg's father-in-law," Toy Manufacturer Louis Marx. Added Moore: "The point was that the White House had set up a security operation to investigate Mr. Ellsberg's activities in leaking top-secret documents and possibly giving them to a foreign embassy of the other great superpower, and that the President said in view...
...long week before the Ervin committee, John Dean made frequent reference to a TIME story last spring that provoked White House consternation. The background: On Feb. 22 Correspondent Sandy Smith filed an exclusive report stating that three years earlier Attorney General John Mitchell had authorized FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to place taps on the phones of a number of Washington newsmen. Two days later, Smith discovered that phones of a number of White House staffers had also been bugged, apparently in an Administration effort to trace leaks to reporters...
Smith learned that when L. Patrick Gray became acting director of the FBI after Hoover's death, he agreed to a White House order that the taps be continued; the bugging stopped only after the Supreme Court ruling in June 1972 that domestic wiretaps were illegal unless authorized by a court. When TIME asked for White House reaction to the story, Dean was in "a real quandary" and went to John Ehrlichman for advice. According to Dean, both he and Ehrlichman knew that the story was true, but Ehrlichman said, "Just flat out deny it." "Now," Dean added, "that...
...judge, of all people, was once pressed to head the Administration's Intelligence Evaluation Committee. That was the shadowy group that some investigators believe carried out parts of the 1970 White House intelligence-gathering plan, which President Nixon insists was scrapped because of J. Edgar Hoover's objections. John Ehrlichman made the pitch to an old friend, Morell E. Sharp, then a Washington Supreme Court justice and now a federal judge appointed by Nixon. According to Sharp, Ehrlichman told him that Nixon wanted the committee. So he took two "redeye" flights from Seattle to the capital to discuss...
Then it was Koslov's turn. After a slow flight over the runway, the TU-144 started an even more awesome zoom climb, afterburners streaking yellow flame and turbofans thundering. "My God," said U.S. Test Pilot Bob Hoover, "I don't see how he can do it!" At 3,000 ft., Koslov began flattening his climb. The plane's needle nose pointed downward, then the craft went into an arrowhead plunge as the pilot struggled to regain control. The stress was too great. At 2,000 ft., the left wing ripped off first, followed by the tail...