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...file of worn metaphors and similes appears. Usually the phrases smack of the military or sports-two arenas notable for their threadbare lexicons. Porter thought of himself as "a team player," Dean as a soldier who had "earned my stripes." Ehrlichman considered himself proficient at "downfield blocking." J. Edgar Hoover was "a loyal trooper." Mitchell football-coached, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going"; and everybody worried about the chief "lowering the boom...
There is the fact that the President approved a plan for domestic surveillance which included blatantly illegal activities and which so offended J. Edgar Hoover that Hoover refused to proceed with the plan unless the President gave written permission for FBI agents to break the law in order to carry out the plan...
TIME has also learned that Senator Ervin had a point in asking Ehrlichman whether the White House had turned to the plumbers because Hoover would not approve a burglary-although Ervin misjudged Hoover's motives. In his earlier years as FBI director, Hoover allowed his agents to conduct such "bag jobs." But in his later years, the savvy bureaucrat was increasingly defensive about his image and considered such illegal acts too risky. If discovered, they would ruin his reputation...
...Herbert Hoover...
...miners of Kalgoorlie's Golden Mile knew Herbert Hoover before the turn of the century as a young gold-mining engineer and balladeer in love with a local barmaid. Today Kalgoorlie is a nickel-mining center of 26,000, with 37 saloons, tolerated brothels and streets still wide enough to turn a horse team around. It is a part of a vast interior that few Australians ever see, since four-fifths of the country's 13 million people live in coastal cities. Together with such other way stations as Cookamidgera, Ivanhoe, Broken Hill, Bookaloo, Tarcoola, Koolyanobbing and Doodlakine...