Article: A star is born.(Tilting at Windmills)(J. Edgar Hoover, Lyndon Johnson)(Brief Article)

Article: Perhaps Brian Cowen might have been advised to follow the ...
Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland);  May 2, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... have been advised to follow the teachings of US President Lyndon Johnson before he sacked the now fractious TD John McGuinness. Johnson famously explained why he had retained J Edgar Hoover as boss of the FBI in the 1960s: "I'd rather have him ...

Article: International: How LBJ began the bugging game Lyndon ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  January 19, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... assassination of John Kennedy, President Lyndon Johnson ordered the US Army Signal Corps ... the tapes were deposited in the Lyndon Johnson Library in Austin, Texas. Its ... And, calling FBI Director Edgar Hoover, Johnson asks whether any of ...

Article: Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, ...
The American Enterprise;  November 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... fast? Flawed Giant--Robert Dallek's giant biography of Lyndon Johnson from his ascension to the Vice Presidency in 1961 until his ... directed by Soviet agents. At Johnson's direction, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI spied extensively on the anti-war movement and ...

Article: The file on J. Edgar Hoover
The Boston Globe;  February 8, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... the name J. Edgar Hoover was synonymous ... the name J. Edgar Hoover will become synonymous ... into selecting Lyndon Johnson as his running ... Kennedy choose Lyndon Johnson for vice president ... Johnson by J. Edgar Hoover about {Kennedy ...

Article: Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar ...
USA Today (Magazine);  July 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... Shakespeare's remark is apropos. J. Edgar Hoover, who gave the U.S. the best law ... as a moral or political subversive. Lyndon Johnson called Hoover "a queer bastard ... amateurish attempts at psychoanalyzing J. Edgar Hoover by the author and his interviewees ...

Article: J. Edgar Hoover's final years: 1960-72.
National Observer - Australia and World Affairs;  March 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... hower's proved to be notably agreeable portions of J. Edgar Hoover's forty-eight-year tenure (1924-72) as the Federal ... separated from them by superior force. One of Vice-President Lyndon Johnson's advisers, John P. Roche, observed of Bobby: "He ...

Article: A lesson in caution from Hoover's powerful FBI. (merger of other ...
Insight on the News;  November 8, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... here need only review the FBI's own record. Under J. Edgar Hoover's leadership, the FBI became not only the strongest of ... been grossly misused in the past by presidents, including Lyndon Johnson, who had agents working as political operatives at the Democratic ...