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  • , in a sense, incendiary on a national basis? P: Yes. F: That we were teetering a bit? P: Yes, J. Edgar Hoover, one of the first witnesses, said that they were unable to find any area of conspiracy in the civil disorders of Detroit and Newark
  • 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
  • Tom Kelly Lem Johns 25-27 Recommends changes in the authority structure of the Secret Service 25-27 Mr. Hoover 27,28,29 Personal meetings with the President 29,30 Civil Works Program 30,36 Secretary Reser 31 Standby problems 32 Under
  • games and the Mayor of Selma; J. Edgar Hoover and the Yarmouth Castle case; Secret Service-FBI merger issue; anecdote of LBJ's political acumen; Jim Wright an issue of constitutionality; dealing with civil disturbances; the M-16 rifle investigation
  • was a front-·leading candidate. M: Did this affec this decis ion in any way? Well, his polls, you ·know ,.wentdowUyerY sharply from the end of '66·until Mayor June of '67, as a result of a series of events, I think. The Hoover controversy was not very
  • . Hoover testified before the Commission on Disorders to the effect that to date--at that time--we had no such evidence, and I think it's safe to say we still have no such evidence. I think you need to distinguish between conspiracies to foment disorders
  • 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