J. Edgar Hoover
A view of the J. Edgar Hoover Building, the headquarters for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), on May 3, 2013 in Washington, DC. The FBI announcement that it will move its headquarters has sparked fierce competion in the Washington DC area with bordering states Maryland and Virginia competing to have the FBI find a new home in their jurisdictions.
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My All-American certificate. As far as I knew I had it. I had it framed. Bob Hope had given it to me from Kodak and ... [the] J. Edgar Hoover [picture].
Joseph McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover would have been proud of this legislation and what it is trying to achieve
And he called me after Earth Day — he was laughing as hard as I'd ever heard, and he said, 'Pete, I've got this report from [FBI Director] J. Edgar Hoover to deliver to the president tomorrow,' because the president was so paranoid that Earth Day was going to be a bunch of anti-war kids gathered that he had put them under surveillance by the FBIMore quotes »
Newsday's coverage
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FBI 'flying saucers' NM memo bureau's most viewed
-- An FBI report of "flying saucers" in New Mexico sent to then-Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1950 has become the most popular file in the bureau's electronic reading room.The Roswell Daily Record reports (http://bit.ly/1647qm6) the memo sent by FBI Washington, Read more »
Around the web
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John Kass: Proliferating scandals expose truth about Obama
records hoping to find administration leaks, is a chilling assault on the First Amendment that would have made Nixon or J. Edgar Hoover smile. What Obama requires is another relaxing vacation. This time, the man needs a visit to Happy Land. So please take from Mercedes Sun-Star Read more »
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O.J. chokes up during first time on witness stand, gets emotional recalling found items during 2007 robbery
certificate. As far as I knew I had it. I had it framed. Bob Hope had given it to me from Kodak and ... [the] J. Edgar Hoover [picture]." An emotional O.J. added: "These are things, you live with them in your house on the wall, you forget about them. You don't from New York Post Read more »
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The IRS Scandal, and Hoover's Brutalist Legacy
even effectively challenged, because as everyone knew, he "had a file on everybody ." It's easy, in hindsight, to condemn J. Edgar Hoover. I can write this article without the fear that an FBI agent is going to show up at my door tomorrow and start asking from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Paranoid Politics: J. Edgar vs LaPierre
a path to power, but last week’s NRA convention celebrated its chief clerk’s kind of national clout unseen since J. Edgar Hoover bullied the White House and Congress half a century ago. Hoover and Wayne La Pierre, two bombastic file-keepers who rose to control from The Moderate Voice Read more »
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Raid on Minnesota home thwarted terror attack, says FBI
main headquarters of the FBI, the J. Edgar Hoover Building, is seen in Washington in this file photo taken March 4, 2012. (REUTERS/Gary Cameron/Files) MINNEAPOLIS - Authorities disrupted a terror plot and possibly saved lives when they raided a home in western from Ottawa Sun Read more »
