J. EdgarHoover, Director of FBI in his office, April 1940. Courtesy: Library of Congress J. EdgarHoover lived in Washington, D.C. all his life. In 1895 he was born in a white, ...
In the wake of its success, Hoover sought to double the FBI's budget, but he ran into opposition from a hostile senator and was forced to admit that he'd never made an arrest. The JEdgar ...
J. EdgarHoover is mostly remembered as the dominant force of the FBI. But he really got his start in 1919. He was 24 when he got a job at the Justice Department and was handed the position of ...
The president-elect's choice to be the FBI director is a dangerous pick, one whose willingness to persecute left-wing Americans goes beyond even Hoover's.
What does it means to have someone who appears to be handpicked for loyalty to head an institution as important, and as potentially dangerous, as the F.B.I.?
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