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...EDGAR HOOVER is dead, and his death is cause for neither sadness nor rejoicing. At 77, after 48 years in his post as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he seemed indestructible, a fixture of the American psyche which could never die. We saw him as a piece of our history...
...Hoover was a vital part of anti-communist hysteria from the beginning. For nearly half a century he warned Congress and the public about communists hiding under their beds. They shuddered, and he combined their fear with adroit use of influence and blackmail and built his FBI into an empire, an uncontrollable superagency which is already far down the road to being a national political police force...
Surprise Plug. Anderson, by contrast, rarely pleads for any specific cause, and lambastes almost everybody: Republicans and Democrats, Congressmen and Administration officials, diplomats and business executives, Edward Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover. Some Republicans believe that Democrat Anderson hits harder at them, but that is probably because they currently are in office. Few people except Nader appear in Anderson's column in a favorable light, and some of those who do are surprising. His infrequent pieces on President Nixon have occasionally been sympathetic, and in a 1970 column he gave a plug to the anti-pornography campaign of, believe...
...fortune, Milbank set up the Institute for the Crippled and Disabled after World War I to help train permanently injured veterans and civilians. In 1928 he established the original pilot study of poliomyelitis, which led to formation of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. A longtime friend of Herbert Hoover, Milbank was a large contributor to the Republican Party and served as eastern treasurer for the G.O.P. National Committee during the 1928 and 1932 elections...
Died. Herbert Feis, 78, economist, historian and Government adviser in the Hoover, Roosevelt and Truman Administrations; in Winter Park, Fla. Feis entered the State Department in 1931 as an economist, but his masterwork was a ten-volume history of American foreign policy from 1933 to the 1950s. Though some younger historians questioned the objectivity of a man so close to his topic, Feis' books were widely praised for their richness of detail and incisive presentation. His account of the Potsdam Conference, Between War and Peace, won a Pulitzer Prize...