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  • . Edgar Hoover and Robert Kennedy was surfaced, the Department under Nick Katzenbach attempted to find a middle ground; one that would not embarrass, or unduly embarrass, Robert Kennedy, and one that was nonetheless candid and honest as to the prior
  • question that future scholars are going to note and would probably wonder at the omission. During Robert Kennedy's tenure as Attorney General, there was a rather well publicized dispute between him and J. Edgar Hoover over electronics surveillance. E
  • his assistant, more or less. He handled a lot of things for the Chief Justice while the Chief was directing it. This general counsel [J. Lee Rankin], who was a member of the commission, phoned me one Saturday afternoon saying that "our friend wants
  • 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.
  • 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