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J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

The Lawfare Podcast

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Do You Think FDR Was a New Deal Liberal?

FDR was not afraid to push over to use secret surveillance, including for his own political ends. Roosevelt first of all was not much of a civil libertarian. Hoover was surprisingly kind of a quintessential New Dealer, I should say. And he was just another, it was just the security element of good governance that Roosevelt was pushing.

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