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Hoover and wrote
" J. Edgar Hoover wrote extensively of " Red Fascism ".
In July 1922, Soviet author Maxim Gorky wrote to Hoover:
He appointed a commission that set aside 3, 000, 000 acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of national parks and 2, 300, 000 acres of national forests ; advocated tax reduction for low-income Americans ( not enacted ); closed certain tax loopholes for the wealthy ; doubled the number of veterans ' hospital facilities ; negotiated a treaty on St. Lawrence Seaway ( which failed in the U. S. Senate ); wrote a Children's Charter that advocated protection of every child regardless of race or gender ; created an antitrust division in the Justice Department ; required air mail carriers to adopt stricter safety measures and improve service ; proposed federal loans for urban slum clearances ( not enacted ); organized the Federal Bureau of Prisons ; reorganized the Bureau of Indian Affairs ; instituted prison reform ; proposed a federal Department of Education ( not enacted ); advocated $ 50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 ( not enacted ); chaired White House conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership ; began construction of the Boulder Dam ( later renamed Hoover Dam ); and signed the Norris – La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labor disputes.
Hoover, perhaps at the behest of Richard Nixon, investigated ex-Beatle John Lennon by putting the singer under surveillance, and Hoover wrote this letter to the Attorney General in 1972.
of Commerce Herbert Hoover wrote the Seattle speech and Harding claimed he would protect the territory from looters and profit seekers ; a rebuff to former Sec.
Upon his return to the United States, Kempner wrote to J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI, that Irving expressed many " anti-American and anti-Jewish statements ".
Warner wrote: " J. Edgar Hoover told me that Youngstown in those days was one of the toughest cities in America, and a gathering place for Sicilian thugs active in the Mafia.
Inspired by the death of Latimer's father, he and Hoover then wrote Harbour of Tears ( nickname for Cobh ( pronounced ' cove ') harbour in Ireland from which many sailed off to the USA during the Potato Famine ) under the Camel name, which was released in 1996.
In a letter to J. Edgar Hoover, Chambers wrote that he had numerous homosexual liaisons during the 1930s, starting in 1933.
He wrote several times to J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, requesting a meeting.
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ), who took a very suspicious view of the civil rights movement, wrote in an internal memo in 1940 that he did not believe the case fell under the FBI's jurisdiction.
While they were in prison, Hoover wrote: " Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman are, beyond doubt, two of the most dangerous anarchists in this country and if permitted to return to the community will result in undue harm.
During and after the war Irwin wrote 17 more books, including a biography of Herbert Hoover, a history of Paramount Pictures and its founder Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built ( 1928 ), and his autobiography, The Making of a Reporter ( 1942 ).
At 3: 01 p. m. Dallas time, only an hour after Oswald was taken into the Dallas jail, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover wrote a memo to his assistant directors in which he stated, " I called the attorney general at his home and told him I thought we had the man who killed the President down in Dallas, at the present time.
On November 24, 1963, in a memo J. Edgar Hoover wrote for the record, Hoover stated, " The thing I am most concerned about, and so is Mr. Katzenbach, is having something issued so that we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin.
Former U. S. President Herbert Hoover wrote in her epitaph: " Beloved composer of ' I Love You Truly '.
* Kay Hoover and Barbara Wilson-Clay, LLL Leaders and IBCLCs, wrote The Breastfeeding Atlas, a comprehensive visual guide for lactation specialists.
During his time at the Hoover Institution, he wrote the major study Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development ( in three volumes ), arguing that the West played a major role in developing the Soviet Union from its very beginnings up until the present time ( 1970 ).
" The Breakfast for Children Program ," wrote Hoover in an internal FBI memo in May 1969, " represents the best and most influential activity going for the BPP and, as such, is potentially the greatest threat to efforts by authorities to neutralize the BPP and destroy what it stands for.
Subsequent testimony on Hoover's behalf from an FBI official confirmed that Hoover never wrote or ordered the letter, and that no such copy existed in FBI files, rendering McCarthy's claims meritless, and the letter spurious.
On May 29, 1946, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover wrote a letter intended for President Truman that named several senior government officials as part of a Soviet network.
He wrote the following recommendation in a letter to Hoover:

Hoover and open
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover came to Mississippi on July 10 to open the first FBI branch office there.
The chain also proposed to open its first store in Alabama which would be the second store in the Southeast at the Riverchase Galleria in the Birmingham suburb of Hoover.
The office remained open at the site for a few more years until it too was eventually closed and Hoover left the site.

Hoover and letter
The same Hoover letter, with fewer redactions.
Although three agents shot Dillinger, Winstead was believed to be the man who fired the fatal shot, and he received a personal letter of commendation from Director Hoover.
J. Edgar Hoover sent Seldes a 15-page letter denying such FBI activities.
The only other official record relating to the case released by the FBI was a 1970 letter from Hoover to an unidentified member of the public, thanking them for their interest in the case but reiterating his position from 30 years earlier that he did not believe the FBI had any jurisdiction to investigate.
Freedom of Information Act requests have led to the release of information such as this letter by J. Edgar Hoover about surveillance of ex-Beatle John Lennon.
The next day, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover sent a hand-delivered letter to Truman's Military Aide, Gen. Harry Vaughan, at the White House, reporting information that " a number of persons employed by the government of the United States have been furnishing data and information to persons outside the Federal Government, who are in turn transmitting this information to espionage agents of the Soviet government.
Despite never getting to meet FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, Presley did receive a letter from him on January 4, 1971, acknowledging his offer of assistance.
After the discrediting of the photograph, McCarthy produced a copy of a confidential letter he claimed was a January 1951 memo written and signed by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover addressed to Army Intelligence warning of subversives in the Army Signal Corps.
The mysterious " Mr Guver " letter, sent to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1943 from an anonymous source now widely believed to be KGB Officer Vassili Mironov, named Morros as an agent working with Soviet intelligence and identified Elizabeth Zarubina as Morros ' contact.
The last scene is Janice writing a letter to Hoover thanking him for transporting Ivy / Audrey's ashes to India, and indicating this is with her husband's permission, who she says has started to accept what she and Hoover believe to be true.

Hoover and press
Hoover received much favorable press coverage in the months leading up to the convention.
Hoover held a press conference on his first day in office, promising a " new phase of press relations ".
Hoover himself in January 1923 told the press there was an " urgent need for radio regulation.
During the Red Scare of 1918 – 19, in response to the 1919 anarchist bombings aimed at prominent government officials and businessman, U. S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, supported by J. Edgar Hoover, then head of the Justice Department's Enemy Aliens Registration Section, used the Sedition Act, a 1918 amendment to the Espionage Act, to deport several hundred foreign citizens, including Emma Goldman, to the Soviet Union on a ship the press called the " Soviet Ark ".
Akerson did not have the formal title of " press secretary ," but was the designated person to speak on behalf of President Hoover.
As poor coverage made President Hoover appear detached and out of touch amidst a worsening depression, Richey and Akerson disagreed about the most effective press strategy, with Akerson promoting the idea that Hoover should leverage the increasingly influential platform of radio, and Richey arguing that the radio strategy was not worthy of the Presidency.
Relations between the Hoover Administration and the press continued to decline.
Despite the unpopularity of the press conferences by the end of the Hoover administration, Roosevelt continued the tradition.
Soon this information was leaked to the press, which sought verification that the police were closing in on the kidnapper or kidnappers .< ref > Hoover, J. Edgar Director FBI < u > Memorandum For Mr. Smith </ u > September 13, 1934.
Stone made a point of suggesting to the Soviet press attache Oleg Kalugin that they lunch together at Harvey's, a favorite Hoover haunt, in order to " tweak his F. B. I.
After only 60 episodes aired over 12 weeks, Doug Hoover, Global's senior vice-president of programming, announced in a press release on March 12, 2004, that the network had cancelled the show due to poor ratings.
His biography of Trotsky was positively reviewed in the British and American press on its publication, but two years later was strongly criticized by Service's Hoover Institution colleague Bertrand Patenaude in a review for the American Historical Review.
Kissinger immediately called Hoover to find out who might have leaked this information to the press.
U. S. President Herbert Hoover briefly suspended relations to press Monrovia into compliance.
In 1951, J. Edgar Hoover and the state department, in collusion with the NAACP and Wilkins ( then editor of The Crisis, the official magazine of the NAACP ), arranged for a ghost-written leaflet to be printed and distributed in Africa. The purpose of the leaflet was to spread negative press and views about the Black political radical and entertainer Paul Robeson throughout Africa.
On May 20, 1942, with a full report from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in hand, Senator Barkley addressed the Senate at length on the irresponsibility of the New York Post, the laudable restraint of the rest of the press, the details of the FBI's report, and the Senate's affirmation of Walsh's " unsullied " reputation.
Anderson's investigations were a tipping point in the attitude of the public and the press towards Hoover.
And everyone feeds JJ scandal, from J. Edgar Hoover and Senator Joe McCarthy down to a battalion of hungry press agents who attach their news to a client that JJ might plug.

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