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Hoover, Communism, and the FBI

ChinaTalk

CHAPTER

Hoover's Relationship to the Bureaucracy

In many ways, it's kind of a tragedy for Hoover that he couldn't let go. He thought the FBI would collapse. It was his whole life. Even Richard Nixon, you know, his dearest friend in American politics in many ways sits down with him in 1971. And so says Edgar, don't you think it's time at Hoover said, "No, no, I don't" But then Hoover happens to die and Nixon's very happy about that. That's sad about it when it happens.

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