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title: "56 J edgar hoover Quotes by 41 authors"
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> [“FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had made the Black Panthers a top priority and, naturally, had publicly “declared war” on them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/radley-balko/fbi-director-j-edgar-hoover-had-made-the-black-panthers-a-top/)

[Radley Balko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/radley-balko/)

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> [J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/j-edgar-hoover-j-bracken-lee-j-parnell-thomas-j-paul-getty-you-can/)

[Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/)

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> [ \[ J. Edgar\]Hoover, I'm sure, felt that he was right in everything he did and even the things that we don't like… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-eastwood/j-edgar-hoover-i-m-sure-felt-that-he-was-right-in-everything-he-did/)

[Clint Eastwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clint-eastwood/)

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> [“So this is where the CIA began—with J. Edgar Hoover telling the British to go to hell, and the British not appreciating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-fagone/so-this-is-where-the-cia-began-with-j-edgar-hoover-telling-the/)

[Jason Fagone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-fagone/)

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> [“You right,” Hawk said. “Couldn’t happen. Be like J. Edgar Hoover running around in a dress.” “Exactly,” I said. “Impossible.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-b-parker/you-right-hawk-said-couldn-t-happen-be-like-j-edgar-hoover-running/)

[Robert B. Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-b-parker/)

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> [Do I think J. Edgar Hoover was gay? Yes. Do I think he cross-dressed? No.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dustin-lance-black/do-i-think-j-edgar-hoover-was-gay-yes-do-i-think-he-cross-dressed-no/)

[Dustin Lance Black](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dustin-lance-black/)

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> [I'm so happy, I think I'll dress up like J. Edgar Hoover and sing show tunes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-imus/i-m-so-happy-i-think-i-ll-dress-up-like-j-edgar-hoover-and-sing-show/)

[Don Imus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-imus/)

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> [ “\[Re: J. Edgar Hoover\] His knowledge was enormous, though his mind was narrow.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-weiner/re-j-edgar-hoover-his-knowledge-was-enormous-though-his-mind-was/)

[Tim Weiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-weiner/)

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> [Complex man that he was, J. Edgar Hoover left nothing to chance. The director shrewdly recognized that building what became known as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-kessler/complex-man-that-he-was-j-edgar-hoover-left-nothing-to-chance-the/)

[Ronald Kessler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-kessler/)

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> [“As the historian Richard Gid Powers has noted, J. Edgar Hoover found in Progressivism an approach that reflected his own obsession with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-grann/as-the-historian-richard-gid-powers-has-noted-j-edgar-hoover-found-in/)

[David Grann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-grann/)

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> [ “The fact he has some kind of bond with you is quite extraordinary", she \[Deep Throat's daughter\] said. "He doesn't remember Ed… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-woodward/the-fact-he-has-some-kind-of-bond-with-you-is-quite-extraordinary-she/)

[Bob Woodward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-woodward/)

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> [“If J. Edgar Hoover had something like Total Information Awareness, would his agents have used it, as they did all the other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-parenti/if-j-edgar-hoover-had-something-like-total-information-awareness/)

Christian Parenti

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> [ They \[FBI\] had a lot of clippings, a lot of articles I'd written. And to me the - the funniest one was… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nat-hentoff/they-fbi-had-a-lot-of-clippings-a-lot-of-articles-i-d-written-and-to/)

[Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nat-hentoff/)

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> [My father was the first black Secret Service agent. He wanted to get into the FBI but J. Edgar Hoover, who was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daryl-davis/my-father-was-the-first-black-secret-service-agent-he-wanted-to-get/)

[Daryl Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daryl-davis/)

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> [All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lenny-bruce/all-my-humor-is-based-upon-destruction-and-despair-if-the-whole-world/)

[Lenny Bruce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lenny-bruce/)

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> [The notion of law enforcement as professional, not political, began developing as an aspiration and an ethos even while, in practice, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-wittes/the-notion-of-law-enforcement-as-professional-not-political-began/)

[Benjamin Wittes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-wittes/)

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> [Angela Davis's legacy as a freedom fighter made her an enemy of the state under the increasingly neoliberal regimes of Nixon, Reagan…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-giroux/angela-davis-s-legacy-as-a-freedom-fighter-made-her-an-enemy-of-the/)

[Henry Giroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-giroux/)

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> [By every measure, John Kennedy's sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-greenfield/by-every-measure-john-kennedy-s-sex-life-was-compulsive-and-reckless/)

[Jeff Greenfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-greenfield/)

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> [“The goal was a U.S. Gestapo. Senator Ervin described the espionage squad inside the White House as a “gestapo mentality.” J. Edgar…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mae-brussell/the-goal-was-a-u-s-gestapo-senator-ervin-described-the-espionage/)

[Mae Brussell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mae-brussell/)

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> [If you're a history buff, you know about J. Edgar Hoover. He was likely the most powerful man in the US. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dustin-lance-black/if-you-re-a-history-buff-you-know-about-j-edgar-hoover-he-was-likely/)

[Dustin Lance Black](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dustin-lance-black/)

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> [“My anxiety level was rising pretty fast now. Visits with the FBI can do that to you, I guess. I'd had bad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-patterson/my-anxiety-level-was-rising-pretty-fast-now-visits-with-the-fbi-can/)

[James Patterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-patterson/)

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> [I just kind of had my own impressions growing up with Hoover as a heroic figure in the 40s - actually the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-eastwood/i-just-kind-of-had-my-own-impressions-growing-up-with-hoover-as-a/)

[Clint Eastwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clint-eastwood/)

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> [“Under Cheney’s direction, the United States moved to restore the powers of secret intelligence that had flourished for fifty-five years under J.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-weiner/under-cheney-s-direction-the-united-states-moved-to-restore-the/)

[Tim Weiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-weiner/)

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> [ We're interested in complex characters and he's a complex character, \[J. Edgar\] Hoover. I like these types of dramas. I've made a… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-grazer/we-re-interested-in-complex-characters-and-he-s-a-complex-character-j/)

[Brian Grazer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-grazer/)

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> [“Nobody has proved that the NSA or GCHQ committed grave and deliberate breaches of the law. In the big scandals of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-lucas/nobody-has-proved-that-the-nsa-or-gchq-committed-grave-and-deliberate/)

[Edward Lucas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-lucas/)

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> [“Violent anti-communist fears by the military and munition makers justified the transformation of a once democratic nation into the fascist state we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mae-brussell/violent-anti-communist-fears-by-the-military-and-munition-makers/)

[Mae Brussell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mae-brussell/)

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> [“J. Edgar Hoover, the pugnacious director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), put it country-simple for a lay audience when he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-a-lee/j-edgar-hoover-the-pugnacious-director-of-the-federal-bureau-of/)

Martin A. Lee

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> [“If through no fault of his own the hero is crushed by a bulldozer in Act II, we are not impressed. Even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-knox/if-through-no-fault-of-his-own-the-hero-is-crushed-by-a-bulldozer-in/)

Bernard Knox

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> [“FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover “mistrusted and disliked all three Kennedy brothers. President Johnson and Hoover had mutual fear and hatred for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mae-brussell/fbi-director-j-edgar-hoover-mistrusted-and-disliked-all-three-kennedy/)

[Mae Brussell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mae-brussell/)

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> [ “One of our primary aims in counterintelligence as it concerns the \[Black Panther Party\] is to keep this group isolated from the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/one-of-our-primary-aims-in-counterintelligence-as-it-concerns-the/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Sometime in the fifties I remember seeing On the Waterfront in the movies with Mary and thinking that I’m at least as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/sometime-in-the-fifties-i-remember-seeing-on-the-waterfront-in-the-2/)

[Charles Brandt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-brandt/)

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> [“On the labour front in 1919 there was an unprecedented number of strikes involving many millions of workers. One of the lager…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctorow-2/on-the-labour-front-in-1919-there-was-an-unprecedented-number-of/)

[E.L. Doctorow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctorow-2/)

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> [By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-cockburn/by-1967-j-edgar-hoover-had-concluded-that-the-black-panther-party-had/)

[Alexander Cockburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-cockburn/)

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> [If Congress is going to investigate baseball players about whether or not they told the truth, how can we justify giving the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-snowden/if-congress-is-going-to-investigate-baseball-players-about-whether-or/)

[Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-snowden/)

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> [ I would far rather over-estimate the threat \[imposed by the Patriot Act\] and be proven wrong than to underestimate the threat and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-lee/i-would-far-rather-over-estimate-the-threat-imposed-by-the-patriot/)

Tim Lee

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> [There was one moment when J. Edgar Hoover and us had the same distorted lens about who we were - "a real…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-ayers/there-was-one-moment-when-j-edgar-hoover-and-us-had-the-same/)

[Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-ayers/)

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> [“By the early 1920s, the America of Jefferson, Lincoln, Whitman, and the young William Jennings Bryan had ceased to exist. It had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-stone/by-the-early-1920s-the-america-of-jefferson-lincoln-whitman-and-the/)

[Oliver Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-stone/)

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> [To me, you couldn't write a character like J. Edgar Hoover and have it be believable. I mean, he was a crock…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dustin-lance-black/to-me-you-couldn-t-write-a-character-like-j-edgar-hoover-and-have-it/)

[Dustin Lance Black](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dustin-lance-black/)

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> [“I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/esther-perel/i-regret-to-say-that-we-of-the-fbi-are-powerless-to-act-in-cases-of/)

[Esther Perel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/esther-perel/)

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> [ We actually did a lot of takes on this movie \[J. Edgar Hoover\]. I never left the set wanting more. That's for… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonardo-dicaprio/we-actually-did-a-lot-of-takes-on-this-movie-j-edgar-hoover-i-never/)

[Leonardo DiCaprio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonardo-dicaprio/)

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                        "text": "If you're a history buff, you know about J. Edgar Hoover. He was likely the most powerful man in the US. If you start reading about him, the books contradict each other constantly. I was often left with very little sense of the man personally. I had a sense of what he did and didn't do and what people disagreed about whether he did this or didn't do this or that, but I was like, \"Why? Why was he doing all of this?\" That was my big question.",
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                        "text": "I just kind of had my own impressions growing up with Hoover as a heroic figure in the 40s - actually the 30s, 40s, and 50s and beyond - but this was all prior to the information age so we didn't know about Hoover except what was usually in the papers, and this was fun, because this was a chance to go into it [ during filming 'J. Edgar Hoover' ]",
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                        "text": "“Violent anti-communist fears by the military and munition makers justified the transformation of a once democratic nation into the fascist state we have today. Members of the Nazi Party now hold key positions in our universities, factories, aircraft and aerospace programs.14 When the Nazi empire collapsed in 1945, General Reinhard Gehlen joined forces with our OSS. Gehlen was placed in charge of wartime intelligence for Foreign Armies East. “It was not long before Gehlen was back in business, this time for the United States. Gehlen named his price and terms.”15 A series of meetings was arranged at the Pentagon with Nazi Gehlen, Allen Dulles, J. Edgar Hoover and others.16 The Gehlen organization combined forces and agents with the OSS, which was soon to become known as the CIA. Experts in clandestine and illegal control of Germany through political assassinations and reversal of judicial processes became the teachers of Allen Dulles and Richard Helms. They helped form the new CIA in 1947, based upon clandestine activities in Nazi Germany.17”",
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                        "text": "“J. Edgar Hoover, the pugnacious director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), put it country-simple for a lay audience when he declared in a widely quoted 1961 speech: \"The three biggest threats to America are the Communists, the Beatniks, and the Eggheads.\" America's secret police chief with the bulldog visage was exaggerating when he fingered the reds, for he knew that the Communist Party USA by this time was largely a front for government spies masquerading as authentic members. As for the eggheads—Hoover never bothered to explain who they were or why they were dangerous.”",
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                        "text": "“If through no fault of his own the hero is crushed by a bulldozer in Act II, we are not impressed. Even though life is often like this—the absconding cashier on his way to Nicaragua is killed in a collision at the airport, the prominent statesman dies of a stroke in the midst of the negotiations he has spent years to bring about, the young lovers are drowned in a boating accident the day before their marriage—such events, the warp and woof of everyday life, seem irrelevant, meaningless. They are crude, undigested, unpurged bits of reality—to draw a metaphor from the late J. Edgar Hoover, they are “raw files.” But it is the function of great art to purge and give meaning to human suffering, and so we expect that if the hero is indeed crushed by a bulldozer in Act II there will be some reason for it, and not just some reason but a good one, one which makes sense in terms of the hero’s personality and action. In fact, we expect to be shown that he is in some way responsible for what happens to him.”",
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                        "text": "“FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover “mistrusted and disliked all three Kennedy brothers. President Johnson and Hoover had mutual fear and hatred for the Kennedys,” wrote the late William Sullivan, for many years an assistant FBI director. Hoover hated Robert Kennedy, who as Attorney General was his boss, and feared John. In turn, the President distrusted Allen Dulles, and eased him out as CIA director after the 1961 Bay of Pigs debacle. When JFK moved to lower the oil depletion allowance, he incurred the displeasure of John McCloy, whose clients’ profits would be trimmed. Hoover, Dulles and McCloy did not belong to the Kennedy fan club. Hoover controlled the field investigation when the president was shot. Dulles and McCloy helped mold the final verdict of the Warren Commission.”",
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                        "text": "“One of our primary aims in counterintelligence as it concerns the [Black Panther Party] is to keep this group isolated from the moderate black and white community which may support it. This is most emphatically pointed out in their Breakfast for Children Program, where they are actively soliciting and receiving support from uninformed whites and moderate blacks. . . . You state that the Bureau under the [Counterintelligence Program] should not attack programs of community interest such as the [Black Panther Party] “Breakfast for Children.” You state that this is because many prominent “humanitarians,” both white and black, are interested in the program as well as churches which are actively supporting it. You have obviously missed the point. —J. Edgar Hoover to FBI Special Agent in Charge, San Francisco, May 27, 1969”",
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                        "text": "“Sometime in the fifties I remember seeing On the Waterfront in the movies with Mary and thinking that I’m at least as bad as that Marlon Brando character and that some day I’d like to get in union work. The Teamsters gave me good job security at Food Fair. They could only fire you if they caught you stealing. Let me put it another way, they could only fire you if they caught you stealing and they could prove it. • chapter eight • Russell Bufalino In 1957 the mob came out of the closet. It came out unwillingly, but out it came. Before 1957 reasonable men could differ over whether an organized network of gangsters existed in America. For years FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had assured America that no such organization existed, and he deployed the FBI’s greatest resources to investigate suspected Communists. But as a result of the publicity foisted on the mob in 1957, even Hoover came on board. The organization was dubbed “La Cosa Nostra,” meaning “this thing of ours,” a term heard on government wiretaps. Ironically,”",
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                        "text": "“On the labour front in 1919 there was an unprecedented number of strikes involving many millions of workers. One of the lager strikes was mounted by the AF of L against the United States Steel Corporation. At that time workers in the steel industry put in an average sixty-eight-hour week for bare subsistence wages. The strike spread to other plants, resulting in considerable violence -- the death of eighteen striking workers, the calling out of troops to disperse picket lines, and so forth. By branding the strikers Bolsheviks and thereby separating them from their public support, the Corporation broke the strike. In Boston, the Police Department went on strike and governor Calvin Coolidge replaced them. In Seattle there was a general strike which precipitated a nationwide 'red scare'. this was the first red scare. Sixteen bombs were found in the New York Post Office just before May Day. The bombs were addressed to men prominent in American life, including John D. Rockefeller and Attorney General Mitchell Palmer. It is not clear today who was responsible for those bombs -- Red terrorists, Black anarchists, or their enemies -- but the effect was the same. Other bombs pooped off all spring, damaging property, killing and maiming innocent people, and the nation responded with an alarm against Reds. It was feared that at in Russia, they were about to take over the country and shove large cocks into everyone's mother. Strike that. The Press exacerbated public feeling. May Day parades in the big cities were attacked by policemen, and soldiers and sailors. The American Legion, just founded, raided IWW headquarters in the State of Washington. Laws against seditious speech were passed in State Legislatures across the country and thousands of people were jailed, including a Socialist Congressman from Milwaukee who was sentenced to twenty years in prison. To say nothing of the Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917 which took care of thousands more. To say nothing of Eugene V. Debs. On the evening of 2 January 1920, Attorney General Palmer, who had his eye on the White House, organized a Federal raid on Communist Party offices throughout the nation. With his right-hand assistant, J. Edgar Hoover, at his right hand, Palmer effected the arrest of over six thousand people, some Communist aliens, some just aliens, some just Communists, and some neither Communists nor aliens but persons visiting those who had been arrested. Property was confiscated, people chained together, handcuffed, and paraded through the streets (in Boston), or kept in corridors of Federal buildings for eight days without food or proper sanitation (in Detroit). Many historians have noted this phenomenon. The raids made an undoubted contribution to the wave of vigilantism winch broke over the country. The Ku Klux Klan blossomed throughout the South and West. There were night raidings, floggings, public hangings, and burnings. Over seventy Negroes were lynched in 1919, not a few of them war veterans. There were speeches against 'foreign ideologies' and much talk about 'one hundred per cent Americanism'. The teaching of evolution in the schools of Tennessee was outlawed. Elsewhere textbooks were repudiated that were not sufficiently patriotic. New immigration laws made racial distinctions and set stringent quotas. Jews were charged with international conspiracy and Catholics with trying to bring the Pope to America. The country would soon go dry, thus creating large-scale, organized crime in the US. The White Sox threw the Series to the Cincinnati Reds. And the stage was set for the trial of two Italian-born anarchists, N. Sacco and B. Vanzetti, for the alleged murder of a paymaster in South Braintree, Mass. The story of the trial is well known and often noted by historians and need not be recounted here. To nothing of World War II--”",
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