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...Watergate maze since he covered the arraignment of the original five burglars. Further, in a rare use of the 1967 Freedom of Information Act, Stern successfully sued the FBI to secure records-the latest of which were released to him last week-showing how the FBI, under J. Edgar Hoover, had mounted a nationwide harassment campaign against militant black and leftist radical groups...
...Herbert Hoover, for instance, in 1932 journeyed to Springfield, Ill. As if it were the dark days of 1864, Hoover borrowed Lincoln's words for the war and declared that victory over the Depression was just a matter of fighting it out on "this line" -if it took all summer. Franklin Roosevelt suggested that Lincoln was a father of the New Deal. Lyndon Johnson ran into Lincoln's sympathetic ghost stalking the White House every time L.B.J.'s popularity dropped in the Gallup poll...
...POWER. Here the case against Nixon takes on specificity. Among the charges: 1) establishing within the White House an irregular personal secret police (the plumbers) that engaged in such criminal acts as burglary, illegal wiretaps, espionage and perjury; 2) personal approval of a plan (later vetoed by J. Edgar Hoover) authorizing illegal domestic political surveillance, military spying on civilians, mail covers and espionage against dissenters, political opponents, journalists and federal employees; 3) the dangling of a high federal post to the judge in the Ellsberg-Pentagon papers trial; and 4) the attempted use of FBI investigations, income tax audits...
...Sirica finally landed a job as a prosecutor on the staff of a Herbert Hoover-appointed U.S. Attorney in Washington. He developed a reputation as a fair but somewhat excitable courtroom lawyer. Aroused by the tactics of opposing counsel in one trial, Sirica impulsively shouted: "It ain't fair; it ain't fair!" In another case, he jumped up to protest to a judge: "Not a single objection of mine so far has been upheld by the court." When one defendant made a threatening move toward him, Boxer Sirica, ready for a fight, told a restraining lawyer...
...Edgar Hoover to L. Patrick Gray (acting) to William Ruckelshaus (acting) to Clarence Kelley...