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They got very mad, and the called J. Edgar Hoover and tried to get something on me that way.
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Yet the name J. Edgar Hoover represents a malignant streak of crime and corruption that is the very antithesis of impartial law enforcement, and if the Obama administration is going to clean house there’s no better time than the present to dump Hoover’s name where it belongs, on the garbage heap of history.
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It was masterminded by a young man called J. Edgar Hoover, who learned then the tactics of indiscriminate smearing he was to use throughout the Cold War.
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Truman Capote had once called J. Edgar Hoover and Roy Colin
When the Wind Blows Patterson, James, 1947- 1998
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Truman Capote had once called J. Edgar Hoover and Roy Colin
When The Wind Blows Patterson, James, 1947- 1998
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After all, J. Edgar Hoover had been trying to smear King for most of the decade.
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Longtime FBI director J. Edgar Hoover is a regular presence in the documents, which touch on some of the controversies involving Kennedy and his family -- and Hoover's own troubled legacy of spying on Americans.
FBI files show Edward Kennedy's life was constantly threatened 2010
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The New York Times published a portrait of Private Manning reminiscent of the type of character assassination J. Edgar Hoover planted in newspapers in the hey day of the communist witch hunts.
Vivien Lesnik Weisman: Pvt. Bradeley Manning and the New York Times: Manufacturing a Villain 2010
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Tell J. Edgar Hoover to look into this guy and get something on him. '
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Tell J. Edgar Hoover to look into this guy and get something on him. '
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