The Origins of Co-Intell Pro

LZ Granderson: Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon they were often asking Hoover to do what were pretty outrageous political favors and Hoover did it sometimes other times he didn't but for instance Nixon and Kissinger asked the FBI to wiretap members of the White House staff in an effort to at least in theory to find leaks. He says that's less Hoover being the arm twister than Hoover having his arm twisted on those kinds of stories. LZ: In some ways it was like Hoover standing up to Nixon that led Nixon to seek those powers elsewhere right? RightYeah so very early on in 1969 Hoover cooperates with Nixon and with Kissinger do these wiretaps even though he tells them that he thinks it