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  • mentioning various commissions reminds me of a couple of incidents that occurred when I was on the Hoover Commission. I knew President Ken- nedy's father very well in connection with that, and you may remember that his brother, Bobby, the one
  • the Nuremberg trial; Storey’s work on the Atlantic-Pacific Interoceanic Canal Route; Storey’s work on a President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice; his acquaintance with the Kennedys and Herbert Hoover.
  • to President Hoover's funeral. funeral, I'm sorry. No, it wasn't. It was Governor [Herbert] Lehman's But he visited Herbert Hoover, who was still alive LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
  • Corporation. You take, for instance, I was on the floor of the House when Herbert Hoover sent up a message mimeographed, saying, "We must have a Reconstruction Finance Corporation for the banks, railroads, and insurance companies." LaGuardia of New York
  • impatience; MLK and Resurrection City; Ramsey Clark and his relationship with LBJ; wire-tapping; J. Edgar Hoover; Robert Kennedy’s assassination; getting Secret Service protection for Presidential candidates; the Commission on Violence; Lloyd Cutler
  • pretty common knowledge that Mr. Hoover and the FBI can on occasions be jealous of their independence and their prerogatives. Has the FBI worked well in cooperation with the other agencies? V: They work very well now. That was not always the case
  • : By misuse, sir, specifically, do you mean by previous Secretaries? H: Oh, I mean that nobody had taken the department seriously, almost since Hoover's time, certainly during the Roosevelt time. B: When Hoover was Secretary of Commerce, or when he
  • the matter of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. As is now beginning to appear in the newspapers, presumably there were wiretaps or other kind of surveillance on Dr. King during this whole period. R: I think
  • it in the Secret Service. another organization would be expensive. To be assigned to We know that Mr. Hoover has told the Warren Commission and the Dillon Committee, which was to analyze the recommendations of the Warren Committee, that there was nothing wrong
  • this idea of program budget come from? Did you bring this with you? F: Well, no, the whole concept of program budgeting goes back many years. the Hoover Commission started it back in the late '40s. agencies picked it up. Actually A number of the federal
  • themselves. I forget how many transi- tions in administrations he has seen, but it dated back several administrations. F: He goes back at least to Hoover. S: I believe that's correct. F: About '28 or '29. S: He said, "This is the way we can do
  • suppose this is subjective rather than factual--that J. Edgar Hoover did poison the well there? A: Yes, absolutely, there's no question about it. And it was sinful that he did. F: On purpose? A: I don't know. For whatever reason, he
  • , I give you pernlission to fill his nanle in. And I called up the FBI and got hold of J. Edgar Hoover, I think it was, or the man next to him. So I talked them out of protection. Of course, they told nle they had to protect me under the law. Well, I