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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJ Edgar Hoover
Never been a fan of his and never will but...
Could you imagine what would happen if the orange shithead accused Hoover's FBI of treason for investigating him?
dchill
(42,660 posts)Itchinjim
(3,185 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)2naSalit
(103,806 posts)into the WH.
SharonAnn
(14,178 posts)J Edgar loved having intel on everyone, especially presidents, so that he could manipulate them.
watoos
(7,142 posts)J. Edgar was in Dallas at a meeting the night before JFK was assassinated. A limo driver who drove him to the meeting from the airport was a witness.
2naSalit
(103,806 posts)I think that, even as messed up as he was, he would have considered -45 too disgustingly filthy for the seat. Though I do agree that he would have loved to have had a puppet in the Oval Office.
He, at least, had some sense of humanity, not much but some... at least.
Norbert
(7,853 posts)MyOwnPeace
(17,609 posts)a few others - perhaps some "special" pageant pics!
rmac3075
(38 posts)Everyone believes two things; one that Republican dirty tricks started with Nixon and second that Hoover was blackmailing everyone in Washington. There is a book called The SS, alibi of a nation Hoover and McCarthy were the alibi of the Republican Red Scare dirty tricks department and nothing has changed since then.
2naSalit
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