Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made the department into one of the most innovative in the U.S. Now President Nixon is calling Kelley, 61, to perform a similar service for the FBI, which has been badly compromised by the Watergate scandal and fractured by internal strife since the death of Director J. Edgar Hoover 13 months...
Kelley's three-decade record as a law enforcement officer has few blemishes, and his chances of confirmation as Hoover's successor by the Senate seem good. Some agents at FBI headquarters would have preferred that the new director come from within their present ranks and are skeptical about Kelley's ability to be independent of the White House. But his nomination pleases other senior FBI agents in the field offices. They still consider him one of their own-one, moreover, who was tainted by neither the in-house feuding during the late Hoover years...
...project was approved by everyone involved except J. Edgar Hoover, who, said a participant, "wanted to continue running the FBI any damned way he wanted." He insisted on appending his critical footnotes to the proposal. In another memo, Tom Charles Huston, then a 29-year-old White House assistant for domestic security affairs, complained: "The FBI in Hoover's younger years used to conduct such operations with great success and no exposure...
...Hoover is "getting old and he's worried about his legend." Huston advised the President to invite the director to a "stroking" session and overrule...
...When Hoover learned that Nixon had approved the plan despite his objections, he "went through the roof," said an observer. He marched over to Attorney General John Mitchell, and together they forced the President to back down only five days later. Shortly after, Huston was relieved of his security job and replaced by John Dean...