Resurrect J. Edgar Hoover
He wasn’t a perfect guy. He was gay in a time when gay meant nothing more than high-spirited merriment and he angered his share of presidents. All of them, actually. But he knew how to run the FBI and no one these days seems to have the knack of that.
He wasn’t a perfect guy. He was gay in a time when gay meant nothing more than high-spirited merriment and he angered his share of presidents. All of them, actually.
But he knew how to run the FBI and no one these days seems to have the knack of that.
Hoover took over in 1924 and ran the show until they patted him in the face with a spade, some 48 years later. He came into a scandalized bureau, asked by Calvin Coolidge to clean it up and he did, but he never went away and built an empire. Hoover had a dossier on almost everyone and was unafraid to use them, or at least threaten to do so.
It may well be impossible to operate any sort of clandestine operation without dictators, real or flawed. Hoover was real. All others since him, it seems, h…