In the 1950s, evidence of Hoover's unwillingness to focus FBI resources on the Mafia became grist for the media and his many detractors.

In 1979, there was a large increase in conflict in the House Select Committee on Assassinations ( HSCA ) under Senator Richard Schweiker, which had re-opened the investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy, reported that Hoover's FBI " failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President ".

The HSCA further reported that Hoover's FBI " was deficient in its sharing of information with other agencies and departments ".

Because Hoover's actions came to be seen as an abuse of power, FBI directors are now limited to one 10-year term, subject to extension by the United States Senate.

" J. Edgar Hoover's name on the FBI building is a stain on the building ", Reid said.

The historians John Stuart Cox and Athan G. Theoharis speculated that Clyde Tolson, who became an associate director of the FBI and Hoover's primary heir, may have been his lover.

The former FBI official Mike Mason suggested that some of Hoover's colleagues denied that he had a sexual relationship with Tolson in an effort to protect his image.

Senator Leahy said that it was similar to J. Edgar Hoover's misuse of the FBI during the 1960s when Hoover hired citizens to spy on neighbors who were political protesters.

In Cartha DeLoach's account of the MIBURN case in his memoir, Hoover's FBI, he does not mention Scarpa.

Playing on a stereotype of his famous TV role, he wore the trademark fedora and black suit when he made an appearance as guest host of a 1977 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live that included a spoof of Highway Patrol, featuring Dan Aykroyd, a longtime fan of the original show, and one in which he portrayed FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, in a humorous send-up of Hoover's suspect sexuality.

The murder of Smith in 1969 remains unsolved, but it has been widely blamed on J. Edgar Hoover's FBI Counter Intelligence Program.

At Hoover's direction, Boyd leaves the FBI and begins working with Hoover's personal nemeses-Kennedy and his younger brother Robert — on the U. S. Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management's investigation of organized crime and union corruption.

Littell becomes increasingly disgruntled with the FBI and Hoover's anti-communism mandates and begins investigating the mob on his own.

" William Sullivan, chief of intelligence operations for the FBI in the 1950s, has also described Hoover's continued zeal in pursuing action against the CPUSA as " insincere ", as he was fully aware of the Party's moribund condition.

In 1973, Gray was nominated as Hoover's permanent successor as head of the FBI.

J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and Robert Kennedy's Justice Department had deep suspicions about organized crime's involvement in the gambling industry.

Also in the late 1950s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) had to finally admit that organized crime in America is real, because of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's embarrassment over the local law enforcement's uncovering of the 1957 Apalachin Meeting.

Hoover's objections are said to have been so vehement as to curtail severely counterintelligence cooperation between the FBI and CIA for the remainder of Hoover's service as the FBI's director.

On May 3, the day after Hoover's death, the United States Senate passed a resolution asking that the then-incomplete FBI building be named for Hoover.

Walter Washington, who reportedly refused FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's suggestion to shoot the rioters, went on to become the city's first elected mayor and its first black mayor.

" Anderson had his people go through Hoover's garbage, a tactic that the FBI used in the surveillance of political dissidents.

His seamstess sister Isabel made dresses for Republican President Herbert Hoover's wife and 1920's actresses in Hollywood.

Jack Anderson was a key and often controversial figure in reporting on J. Edgar Hoover's apparent ties to the Mafia, the Watergate scandal, and the John F. Kennedy assassination.

Hoover's humanitarian and Quaker reputation, along with Curtis as a vice-president, gave special meaning to his Indian policies.

He served as both J. Edgar Hoover's administrative assistant and as a special agent for the Bureau, and during his crime-fighting career, served in the New York City, Detroit and Chicago field offices.

Strauss volunteered to serve without pay as Hoover's assistant.

Huston worked closely with William C. Sullivan, Hoover's assistant, in drawing up the options listed in what eventually became the document known as the Huston Plan.

The delegates did consider nominating Vice President Charles Dawes to be Hoover's running mate.

Examples of so-called kniferisms include a British television newsreader once referring to the police at a crime scene removing a ' hypodeemic nerdle '; a television announcer once saying that " All the world was thrilled by the marriage of the Duck and Doochess of Windsor " and that word regarding an impending presidential veto had come from " a high White Horse souse " ( instead of " a high White House source "); and during a live broadcast in 1931, radio presenter Harry von Zell accidentally mispronouncing US President Herbert Hoover's name, " Hoobert Heever.

As the year 1932 began, the Republican Party believed Hoover's protectionism and aggressive fiscal policies would solve the depression ; in any case, President Herbert Hoover controlled the party.

As the Great Depression continued to ravage the United States, Dawes accepted President Herbert Hoover's appeal to leave diplomatic office and head the newly created Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

* President Hoover's Camp Rapidan: Use by Boy Scouts

On December 24, 1929, during President Herbert Hoover's administration, a fire damaged the West Wing, requiring substantial rebuilding.

Akerson was one of three secretaries to the President, and some speculated that Hoover's closeness to his other secretary, Lawrence Richey, a former detective and Secret Service agent, made it difficult for Akerson to obtain the kind of information he needed to effectively do his job.

He was at first an ardent supporter of President Herbert Hoover but he became discouraged by Hoover's intransigence and failures in dealing with the Great Depression.

Encouraged by his mother, Hatfield's first experience with politics came at the age of 10, when he campaigned in his neighborhood for President Herbert Hoover's 1932 re-election campaign.

From 1929 to 1933, under President Hoover's administration, real per capita federal expenditures increased by 88 percent.

Some surprising content, e. g., in the discussion of President Edgar Hoover's Secretary of State, Henry Stimson.

* Rapidan Camp, President Hoover's retreat in Virginia

On a radio broadcast on March 1, 1932, the day of Cardozo's confirmation, Clarence C. Dill, Democratic Senator for Washington, called Hoover's appointment of Cardozo " the finest act of his career as President ".

In 1932, unhappy with the misguided policies of President Herbert Hoover, such as a doubling of revenues with no positive results, in light of the Great Depression Borah refused to publicly endorse Hoover's reelection campaign.

Ritchie agreed to issue state bonds to aid Baltimore, but would not borrow from President Herbert Hoover's new Reconstruction Finance Corporation until mid-1933, and his luxury tax program met stiff opposition from county representatives opposed to new tobacco taxes.

Whiting's appointment by President Coolidge to succeed Herbert Hoover surprised the Washington establishment, which had expected the position to be filled by Hoover's preferred candidate, Dr. Julius Klein, the director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.

President Hoover's only highlight during this time is ending the war with Japan but many people continue to question why it was fought in the first place.

The library was officially opened to the public on August 10, 1962, Hoover's 88th birthday .. Former President Hoover and Former President Harry Truman were present at the dedication where Hoover recited the following:

The United States Senate elections of 1930 occurred in the middle of Republican President Herbert Hoover's first term.

The U. S. House election, 1930 was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1930 which occurred in the middle of President Herbert Hoover's term.

The bill was enacted over President Hoover's veto.