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The Secrets of J. Edgar Hoover
The LRB Podcast
The Importance of the FBI in the Second World War
Jeff Goover: I was surprised by how much of the power that Hoover came to have was given to him or he took when FDR, when Franklin Roosevelt was president. He says part of the idea behind the New Deal is that we're going to make the federal government more powerful. And in Roosevelt's mind, part of giving Americans a better deal is that federal law enforcement is going to do what state and local law enforcement haven't done. But nevertheless, it is bracing, reading about liberal presidents, Lyndon Johnson, would be the other who do the most to empower Hoover.
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