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...James Buchanan called the presidency "a crown of thorns," and Herbert Hoover pronounced it "a hair shirt." Lyndon Johnson spoke in sepulchral tones of "the awesome burden." There is an article of faith, enshrined in the national mythology, that the leader of the most powerful country on earth must hold the world's most onerous and agonizing job. Knowing how hard the President is working not only reassures Americans, it inspires some in a small way to carry on their own more or less demanding tasks...
...beginning of the decade, even J. Edgar Hoover denied its existence. Its structure was a mystery, and if it had a name, no one on the outside was sure of what it was. Yet, almost unnoticed, it exerted a profound impact on American life. It still does. Small wonder that Valachi, the thug-turned-informer, doubted that anybody would believe or care when he talked about an organization called La Cosa Nostra...
They also have knocked federal officials, including FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (for issuing statements "almost totally devoid of the truth" about planting concealed microphones only with the approval of attorneys general). Another target: Interior Secretary Walter Hickel, whom they prematurely called "the right man for the wrong job." They questioned the appointment of Herbert Klein as President Nixon's Communications Director, claiming that when he was editor of the San Diego Union, that paper managed news to promote Republican candidates...
...student drive brought an alarmed response from business associations and Chambers of Commerce. They held briefings and sent out thousands of letters informing executives about the program and recommending screening procedures to keep activists off payrolls. J. Edgar Hoover warned that union members would face "fanatic, anarchist revolutionaries" who have left behind them "a bitter wake of arson, vandalism, bombings and destruction across the nation" and who believe that "unions should be destroyed, along with the Government, the military, private industry and law enforcement." New York's Commerce and Industry Association held a meeting, closed to outsiders, at which...
Died. Herbert Hoover Jr., 65, son of the 31st President, former Under Secretary of State (1954-57), and successful geologist and engineer; of cancer; in Pasadena, Calif. When his father entered the White House, Hoover was 25 and had already set about carving out a career; he made his professional mark in the scientific and administrative sides of mining. Avoiding politics, he sought the ingredients of what he considered a happy life: "The outdoors, far away places, and mining engineering." It was his mining experience that prompted John Foster Dulles to send him to Iran in 1953 as a trouble...