Obama no longer cares whether the GOP is outraged

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75. Hoover

FDR worked WITH J.Edgar Hoover. In some ways he made Hoover.
Hoover deferred to FDR. FDR had nothing to fear. That all changed for presidents as Hoover gained power with his secret files.
All the while he himself was being blacked mailed by organized crime.

The assassination option I believe was a great part was part of Hoover's power.

That has changed. Obama is very intelligent. He knows when and how to push. I don't think it was fear. I think it was biding his time. He knew they would self destruct in time. You cannot keep the level of outrage the RW uses at a high pitch. Outrage is exhausting. It all reduces to blather and bullshit. People turn away.
Obama knew there was a time to move and time to let them self destruct.

Anthony Summers' book Official and Confidential the Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover is well researched. It gives a view of the presidency
and the assassinations from a very different perspective. It also has a well researched view of the history of the FBI and FDR's use of it.
We are not on the inside of politics. All our perceptions and opinions
are largely subjective and our own projections. We don't know everything.