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Hoover, Communism, and the FBI
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Herbert Hoover and Linden Baines Johnson
The only character in this book who ended up getting Herbert Hoover to do what he wanted was Linden Baines Johnson. LBJ, I think used Hoover more and more effectively than almost any other president. He gets Hoover to do a lot of things that Hoover doesn't necessarily want to do. And as the 60s go on, he's really pushing the FBI to go more aggressively against figures like Stokely Carmichael.
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