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   1 day ago · John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law-enforcement administrator who served as the final Director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). President Calvin Coolidge first appointed Hoover as director of the BOI, the predecessor to the FBI, in 1924.

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   May 8, 2024 · Why Did My Father Have an FBI File? J. Edgar Hoover’s abuse of the bureau hit home for me decades later. Wonder Land: In 1986, Sen. Joe Biden mocked as ‘reckless’ Ronald Reagan's 'Strategic ...

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4. hoover.blogs.archives.gov › 2024/05/07 › greed-is“Greed is Good”: Or is it? – Hoover Heads

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   May 7, 2024 · This is the scene where Louis Winthorpe III, played by Dan Ackroyd, is framed for stealing, resulting in losing his job, money, and status. J.P. Morgan is often portrayed at the epitome of late nineteenth early twentieth-century greed. Yet he personally used his wealth and influence to stop a stock market collapse and bank failures in 1907 and ...

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   May 6, 2024 · Ackerman lays it all out: the thousands of secret files assembled by the young J. Edgar Hoover on Americans, the political dynamics that led to the Palmer raid’s rise and fall, the brave ...

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   Did J Edgar Hoover join a political party?

   • The Guardian. Retrieved April 21, 2018. Hoover never joined a political party and claimed he was 'not political'. In fact, he admitted privately, he was a staunch, lifelong supporter of the Republican Party. ^ a b c Cox, John Stuart; Theoharis, Athan G. (1988). The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition. Temple University Press.

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   Why is the FBI headquarters renamed J Edgar Hoover Building?

   • The FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. is named the J. Edgar Hoover Building, after Hoover. Because of the controversial nature of Hoover's legacy, both Republicans and Democrats have periodically introduced legislation in the House and Senate to rename it. The first such proposal came just two months after the building's inauguration.

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   Does Hoover have a Gestapo?

   • "No Gestapo: J. Edgar Hoover's world-wide intelligence service and the limits of bureaucratic autonomy in the national security state". Studies in American Political Development. 35 (2): 214–222. doi: 10.1017/S0898588X21000031. ISSN 0898-588X. S2CID 235522738. ^ Weiner, Tim (December 23, 2007). "Hoover Planned Mass Jailing in 1950".

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   Did Gilbert Gude change the name of Hoover's edifice?

   • On December 12, 1979, Gilbert Gude – a Republican congressman from Maryland – introduced H.R. 11137, which would have changed the name of the edifice from the "J. Edgar Hoover F.B.I. Building" to simply the "F.B.I. Building". However, that bill never made it out of committee, nor did two subsequent attempts by Gude.

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7. reason.com › 2024/05/10 › an-american-gangster-atFormer FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s Authoritarian Legacy

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   May 10, 2024 · On May 10, 1924, one of the worst events in history for American civil liberties happened: 29-year-old J. Edgar Hoover assumed the role of director of the then-Bureau of Investigation. Ambitious ...

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   May 13, 2024 · Call Number: E173 .M623 2009. ISBN: 9780979775857. ... the lives of notable Americans are illuminated through an in-depth study of the primary source texts they produced during their lifetimes. Description from Salem Press.

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   May 4, 2024 · J. Edgar Hoover may be among the most misunderstood of figures in American history. A far cry from the one-dimensional, indefensible caricature passed down by editorialists, Beverly Gage presents him in her Pulitzer Prize-winning biography as an anxious, yet complicated man.