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then john kennedy really did not like hoover and hoover really did not like on. but he especially did not like robert kennedy, the attorney general, his ostensible boss. in that case hoover knew an awful lot about the kennedys and they were concerned it would cost them the support of a southern democrats in their party. finally, richard nixon, by far his close this friend among the presidents. but as hoover started to get old and it defies some of what nixon wanted him to do, there are some funny moments where hoover says, that is illegal. j edgar hoover is the civil libertarian there. there is a moment where nixon sits down with hoover and says, edgar, you are in your mid-70's wouldn't it be fun to go? and it nixon says, ok and kind of gives in to hoover. who is more powerful the fbi director or the president? >> the fbi headquarters is the j edgar hoover building still today. what was his reputation among agents? >> i think the agents really respected hoover. he built the institution in his own image. really in the early years especially, hand selected agents t
then john kennedy really did not like hoover and hoover really did not like on. but he especially did not like robert kennedy, the attorney general, his ostensible boss. in that case hoover knew an awful lot about the kennedys and they were concerned it would cost them the support of a southern democrats in their party. finally, richard nixon, by far his close this friend among the presidents. but as hoover started to get old and it defies some of what nixon wanted him to do, there are some...
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even hoover was a little uncomfortable with this. they sent back these political reports to lyndon johnson to help him manage, disrupt, and discredit civil rights activists. >> one actor said he was going to report that johnson was going to fire j edgar hoover but when johnson found out bradley was going to print the story he appointed him for life. i'm wondering if that was totally true. >> i don't see any evidence that lyndon johnson ever wanted to fire j edgar hoover. they liked each other, they got along well. i don't think that johnson had that plan. >> we have time for navy be one or two quick questions. >> you didn't expand on how jim thorpe's metals were taken away. >> they were taken away because it turned out after he won 1912 in stockholm, there was a story that broke the said he played bush league baseball in the eastern carolina league two summers. they were immediately taken away and there were four reasons why it was incredible he just. the first is that literally scores of college players were playing minor league bas
even hoover was a little uncomfortable with this. they sent back these political reports to lyndon johnson to help him manage, disrupt, and discredit civil rights activists. >> one actor said he was going to report that johnson was going to fire j edgar hoover but when johnson found out bradley was going to print the story he appointed him for life. i'm wondering if that was totally true. >> i don't see any evidence that lyndon johnson ever wanted to fire j edgar hoover. they liked...
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then john kennedy really did not like hoover and hoover really did not like on. but he especially did not like robert kennedy, the attorney general, his ostensible boss. in that case hoover knew an awful lot about the kennedys and they were concerned it would cost them the support of a southern democrats in their party. finally, richard nixon, by far his close this friend among the presidents. but as hoover started to get old and it defies some of what nixon wanted him to do, there are some funny moments where hoover says, that is illegal. j edgar hoover is the civil libertarian there. there is a moment where nixon sits down with hoover and says, edgar, you are in your mid-70's wouldn't it be fun to go? and it nixon says, ok and kind of gives in to hoover. who is more powerful the fbi director or the president? >> the fbi headquarters is the j edgar hoover building still today. what was his reputation among agents? >> i think the agents really respected hoover. he built the institution in his own image. really in the early years especially, hand selected agents t
then john kennedy really did not like hoover and hoover really did not like on. but he especially did not like robert kennedy, the attorney general, his ostensible boss. in that case hoover knew an awful lot about the kennedys and they were concerned it would cost them the support of a southern democrats in their party. finally, richard nixon, by far his close this friend among the presidents. but as hoover started to get old and it defies some of what nixon wanted him to do, there are some...
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you will see authors talking about their biographies on jagger hoover, jim thorpe -- on j edgar hoover, jim thorpe, valentine, and picasso. we are pleased to be joined by mark whitaker, former managing editor at cnn, former bureau chief for nbc news, former editor of newsweek, and an author as well. his newest book is called saying it loud: 1966the year black power challenged the civil rights movement. mr. whitaker, what is important about the year 1966? >> it is a year when, after a decade of a civil rights movement that people have associated with martin luther king and had been focused on the fight against discrimination, jim crow, voting rights and so forth that we all remember, there was this young generation of blacks who rose up to question a lot of the goals and also the tactics. it was a year that stokely carmichael took over the student nonviolent coordinating committee from john lewis, the great civil rights icon. it was the year the black panthers were formed in oakland, california. it was also the year when a lot of young black folks said we don't want to be called negros
you will see authors talking about their biographies on jagger hoover, jim thorpe -- on j edgar hoover, jim thorpe, valentine, and picasso. we are pleased to be joined by mark whitaker, former managing editor at cnn, former bureau chief for nbc news, former editor of newsweek, and an author as well. his newest book is called saying it loud: 1966the year black power challenged the civil rights movement. mr. whitaker, what is important about the year 1966? >> it is a year when, after a...
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and he said, this is worse than hoover. roosevelt. yeah, it seems. now, the good part is that the biden team actually was the most effectively organized, the largest team and anticipated virtually everything about what happened. except for january six, the fellow that ran the transition, ted kaufman, who was biden's long aide, probably his best friend, put together to streams of work, one he called conventional issues and one he called unconventional conventional were all the things that a transition normally does. personnel agency, etc. the unconventional was all the threats that could occur if. trump did not cooperate and the biden presciently predicted every single issue that happened. delays lack of agencies not opening except for one thing they never predicted. january 6th. nobody could have predicted that. yeah, i think that's a good note to open it up for questions that people have some. we have a microphone there. people want it just go up and ask their question question. hi, thank you. what the date of your article about the transition. the
and he said, this is worse than hoover. roosevelt. yeah, it seems. now, the good part is that the biden team actually was the most effectively organized, the largest team and anticipated virtually everything about what happened. except for january six, the fellow that ran the transition, ted kaufman, who was biden's long aide, probably his best friend, put together to streams of work, one he called conventional issues and one he called unconventional conventional were all the things that a...
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the hoover archives. and he gave me permission to start looking at those and sure enough, i found this incredible journal that was kept kept by his executive assistant, raymond seitz. so when i finished the partnership the book on nuclear weapons, i went to george and i said i'm i'm ready to do the book. i'd be delighted to do the book. but you and i have to have a clear understanding about how this book is going to get done. it's very simple. i said it's your life, but it's my book and he said, perfect i completely understand. and so he operated on that basis. and i he gave me full access to his archives. he met with me dozens of times, basically any time i wanted to interview him, he was available. he opened doors for me to go see his counterparts from the time he was secretary of state. that led to my meeting. you know with helmut schmidt. it led to meetings with the former british foreign secretary. you know, george was incredibly helpful but i had to maintain a distance him just as any journalist has
the hoover archives. and he gave me permission to start looking at those and sure enough, i found this incredible journal that was kept kept by his executive assistant, raymond seitz. so when i finished the partnership the book on nuclear weapons, i went to george and i said i'm i'm ready to do the book. i'd be delighted to do the book. but you and i have to have a clear understanding about how this book is going to get done. it's very simple. i said it's your life, but it's my book and he...
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i mean, the biggest is colleen hoover, who has been writing for years. she began as a self-published novelist and sort of started and kind of took off on her own, and then she really explode. did during the pandemic when which was when book talk was really taking off. she has sold 20 million books now and it's not all tech talk, but that's a lot of that's been a lot of it. and i mean, it's amazing. you look at the fiction bestseller list on any week and it's like half the colleen hoover list. it's really incredible. but there have also been one example i really like is madeline miller, who wrote the song of achilles, which is a love story about achilles and petroglyphs. it's very tragic. and, you know, it's a gay love story about, you know, there's war and people die. and like, this is not an obvious, you know, this is not like an upbeat romantic comedy romance novel sort of thing. like it's not necessarily an easy book, but it has sold. i don't actually know where it is now, but over a million copies and i think it's original print run was something lik
i mean, the biggest is colleen hoover, who has been writing for years. she began as a self-published novelist and sort of started and kind of took off on her own, and then she really explode. did during the pandemic when which was when book talk was really taking off. she has sold 20 million books now and it's not all tech talk, but that's a lot of that's been a lot of it. and i mean, it's amazing. you look at the fiction bestseller list on any week and it's like half the colleen hoover list....
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herbert hoover. a friend of j howard q, the president of sun oil and one of the key figures in our story. she's known to libertarians -- people who admire her call her one of the three furies along with sign rand and isabel patterson, three of the key libertarian thinkers in the mid century. but what is not as well-known about her is she was also the ghostwriter for her mother, laura ingalls wilder. the little house on the prairie series, the books, the television show many of us watched growing up were marketed as the true life stories of laura ingalls wilder as a young girl growing up on the american frontier whose families succeeded by dint of hard work, the strength of the nuclear family and, most importantly, with no help from the government . but the reality was, laura ingalls wilder did not write this books. her libertarian daughter did. and they were not true stories. laura made rough notes for the story but her daughter re-crafted them into libertarian parables. and they were misleading on m
herbert hoover. a friend of j howard q, the president of sun oil and one of the key figures in our story. she's known to libertarians -- people who admire her call her one of the three furies along with sign rand and isabel patterson, three of the key libertarian thinkers in the mid century. but what is not as well-known about her is she was also the ghostwriter for her mother, laura ingalls wilder. the little house on the prairie series, the books, the television show many of us watched...
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as a distinguish fellow at the hoover institution, what is it that you do? well, i, i work on the problem of nuclear weapons and how to get better control of them, eventually eliminate them. i work on economic as a great economic screw up here. i work on energy subjects. i've been working a great deal on that and i've also been trying to reflect a little bit on all my experiences and see if there's anything that can be learned from them. and i actually a book to try to do that and that book is called issue two's on my mind. secretary shultz, what's, what's the main issue on your mind today? the main issue is is that the world that the united states had a great deal to do with constructing after world war two, in effect, we constructed a security and economic commons that served us and served everybody well. that commons is being torn apart right. and we have understand what's happening and we have to be ready to interact in a constructive way to build a more coherent world and one that's developing. we don't want a chaotic so. i reflect on my experi in the b
as a distinguish fellow at the hoover institution, what is it that you do? well, i, i work on the problem of nuclear weapons and how to get better control of them, eventually eliminate them. i work on economic as a great economic screw up here. i work on energy subjects. i've been working a great deal on that and i've also been trying to reflect a little bit on all my experiences and see if there's anything that can be learned from them. and i actually a book to try to do that and that book is...
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categories and tick tock book talk drove sales for numerous fictional authors, especially for colin hoover, the prolific novelist had the top three bestseller books of 2022 and five of the top ten bestsellers. more publishing news from the new york times. new york mayor eric adams has proposed funding cuts to the city's public libraries. the proposed cuts of $13 million this fiscal year and more than $20 million next year have sparked concern among families elected officials and library leaders. libraries could respond to the trimmed budgets by scaling back hours. workers or programing, and that's from the new york times and from publisher's lunch. quote, after 23 years at the helm, the president and publisher of the random house publishing group, gina, said trello has decided to retire. in the industry for 40 years, midcentral published salman rushdie, president and mrs. obama and prince harry among many other authors and it was reported rently that prince harry's book spare sold more books in one day. we, over a millio the most ever sold in one day by a random house title. well, some of
categories and tick tock book talk drove sales for numerous fictional authors, especially for colin hoover, the prolific novelist had the top three bestseller books of 2022 and five of the top ten bestsellers. more publishing news from the new york times. new york mayor eric adams has proposed funding cuts to the city's public libraries. the proposed cuts of $13 million this fiscal year and more than $20 million next year have sparked concern among families elected officials and library...
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well, the first radio broadcast was done by the hoovers, but it wasn't the neither the president nor the first lady actually spoke. the marine band played their music. so that would have been 28. 29. yes. and what would a radio broadcast of an easter egg roll really be like? well, it again, it was mostly the marine bands, music and probably a lot of laughing kids in the background. one of thomas edison's early videos, actually, is of the easter egg roll and it's available from the library of congress. in a timeline. so i would encourage everybody to go see that too. you must have had a lot of fun looking at pictures, videos over the years. oh, absolutely. where you do most of your research. well, the of congress, the national archives and the good folks at the national park service and the white house, historical association, for the most part. also, online newspapers are absolutely wonderful source of information, especially for something like easter egg roll, where you you know, what day is in any given year. and it's very easy to find the news coverage and they're always was plent
well, the first radio broadcast was done by the hoovers, but it wasn't the neither the president nor the first lady actually spoke. the marine band played their music. so that would have been 28. 29. yes. and what would a radio broadcast of an easter egg roll really be like? well, it again, it was mostly the marine bands, music and probably a lot of laughing kids in the background. one of thomas edison's early videos, actually, is of the easter egg roll and it's available from the library of...
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you know, colleen hoover is is selling very briskly, very popular, has several books on the bestseller list at the same time in the the areas where i have a special team in politics and history. erik larsen continues to sell very well, particularly his book splendor in the veil, which came out in softcover, which covers the first year of winston churchill's leadership in britain, coinciding with the bombing of britain by germany. that sold very well. and i will tell you, classics so very well during the holiday season. there's something about buying a classic book as a gift for somebody during the holiday season. what are you currently reading? i just finished reading a really terrific book with a greatest benefit of being a the owner of a bookseller. as i get something called arc's advanced readers copies. so we get ship lots of books that are not available yet, but that we can read to determine whether we want to order them so i just read an arc for an amazing book called the hopkins manuscript. it was first published in 1939 science fiction. and it's about a guy in britain who's an
you know, colleen hoover is is selling very briskly, very popular, has several books on the bestseller list at the same time in the the areas where i have a special team in politics and history. erik larsen continues to sell very well, particularly his book splendor in the veil, which came out in softcover, which covers the first year of winston churchill's leadership in britain, coinciding with the bombing of britain by germany. that sold very well. and i will tell you, classics so very well...
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edgar hoover. the full schedule of events will be on your program guide or at booktv.org. so join us on saturday and sunday, april 22nd and 23rd, for the los angeles times festival of books right here on booktv. finish. >> the publisher of climate depot.com argued that the science of on climate change is not settled and legislation like the green new deal will do more harm than good. his book is "green fraud." here's a portion of his interview at freedom fest. >> author mark moran know, in your book green fraud, you write that the green new deal is an all-income a passing -- income a passing transformation of society. what do you mean by that? >> guest: well, in the book i lay out hat vision of the between new deal is not chiefly about climate or energy policy. what heir trying to do is remake society, quite literally every aspect of society. and that would include everything from health care, housing, racial justice, identity politics on down to our energy structures, our climate, our transportation, your home heating, your ability to travel. the entire spectrum of human
edgar hoover. the full schedule of events will be on your program guide or at booktv.org. so join us on saturday and sunday, april 22nd and 23rd, for the los angeles times festival of books right here on booktv. finish. >> the publisher of climate depot.com argued that the science of on climate change is not settled and legislation like the green new deal will do more harm than good. his book is "green fraud." here's a portion of his interview at freedom fest. >> author...
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thank you all foredgar hoover, , valentine, and picasso. we are pleased to be joined by mark whitaker, former managing editor at cnn, former bureau chief for nbc news, former editor of newsweek, and an author as well. his newest book is called saying it loud: 1966the year black power challenged the civil rights movement. mr. whitaker, what is important about the year 1966? >> it is a year when, after a decade of a civil rights movement that people have associated with martin luther king and had been focused on the fight against discrimination, jim crow, voting rights and so forth that we all remember, there was this young generation of blacks who rose up to question a lot of the goals and also the tactics. it was a year that stokely carmichael took over the student nonviolent coordinating committee from john lewis, the great civil rights icon. it was the year the black panthers were formed in oakland, california. it was also the year when a lot of young black folks said we don't want to be called negros anymore, started wearing afros, the -
thank you all foredgar hoover, , valentine, and picasso. we are pleased to be joined by mark whitaker, former managing editor at cnn, former bureau chief for nbc news, former editor of newsweek, and an author as well. his newest book is called saying it loud: 1966the year black power challenged the civil rights movement. mr. whitaker, what is important about the year 1966? >> it is a year when, after a decade of a civil rights movement that people have associated with martin luther king...
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. >> hoover has stepped up. traveling back to ukraine, you told me it is next week. third trip to ukraine in the span of a year. talk a little bit about how uber has expanded services across ukraine since the start of the war. >> when the invasion happened, since they expanded to 18 cities but doubled off of that. the central transportation, despite the destruction of the war and importantly, 25,000 drivers have been able to maintain a source of funding income for their families through simultaneous economic challenges. think of that as a foundation of what we are doing in ukraine, on top of several discrete relief initiatives so we do free rides for families, moving them to safety, doctors visit hospitals, teachers in school, we built customized logistics software for these agencies, delivered one in 500 truckloads of emergency supplies. initially this was a lot of emergency food relief and winter shelter, things like tarps for blown out windows, blankets, stoves, and department reconstruction material and as we push supplies out of communities we evacuated from thi
. >> hoover has stepped up. traveling back to ukraine, you told me it is next week. third trip to ukraine in the span of a year. talk a little bit about how uber has expanded services across ukraine since the start of the war. >> when the invasion happened, since they expanded to 18 cities but doubled off of that. the central transportation, despite the destruction of the war and importantly, 25,000 drivers have been able to maintain a source of funding income for their families...
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edgar hoover, who had this mantra, the fbi that agents be able to do any job anywhere, and that worked okay. you know, back you know, in the days and even today for, say, you know, in an agent who has a background in accounting they want to put on on on a gang squad or a gang squad investigator or who they want to put on, you know, on white collar crime, it's a lot harder to turn a gang squad agent into a top. a top right top rate cyber investigator, because the skills needed to investigate cybercrime are so specific, technical and are honed many years studying computer science or or learning on your own. like members of the hunting time, like like members of the ransomware hunting team, people michael gillespie have been interested in computers, you know, all of their lives. and, you know, since they were kids and honing their craft over the years and the fbi has over the years tried to force people with no background, interest or aptitude into computer and computer. they've tried to force people to become investigators, but it hasn't worked out. there's just no way to get that up to
edgar hoover, who had this mantra, the fbi that agents be able to do any job anywhere, and that worked okay. you know, back you know, in the days and even today for, say, you know, in an agent who has a background in accounting they want to put on on on a gang squad or a gang squad investigator or who they want to put on, you know, on white collar crime, it's a lot harder to turn a gang squad agent into a top. a top right top rate cyber investigator, because the skills needed to investigate...
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process and so he thank you max for listening to me rant after i'd been reading for 7 hours about herbert hoover i i really owe him a lot so thanks max. but yeah, i think that's that's the story i was definitely relying on a lot of recently digitized archival stuff. palo alto, really good at digitizing stuff, not so good at reading stuff. and so there's a lot of great material that digitized and then like left alone and not used for these histories, even though they end up repeating the same historical material from the same five interviews in book after book after book, or they'll go interview the guy and ask him to repeat the story from that other books he can put in this book. and so finding of that history, oral histories that been recorded that like cal has a really great stock of oral from the tech industry. um, so i really got to like play around with sources and this is the product. i hope you all like it. great. let's have him around the books, stuff. and a second round for the conversation. the object
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and so he's super the big expansions of the tax system under fdr fdr actually the line on hoover's tax system in 3334 and then as of january 1st, 19 7036, he had this huge at the top from 63% to 79% and then tried to have withheld profits tax and morgenthau testified to congress the next year that we're not even coming close to the revenue projections here, the top. and it's because tax sheltering and really what our book is about in very great part is the extraordinary lengths that the top earners will go to to shelter legally their income from taxation when is sharp profit incentive to do so? when you when you lose $0.79 on your marginal dollar, the incentive and he just said i mean the ways they can up with to avoid legally are better than anything we could come up with. and he specifically said the tax bar which didn't exist before 1913 has grown to 45,000 lawyers in virtually all of them have had their training as young tax attorneys with the revenue bureau and he said, if we hire more agents, think of that, we're only going to exacerbate problem because the private sector hires o
and so he's super the big expansions of the tax system under fdr fdr actually the line on hoover's tax system in 3334 and then as of january 1st, 19 7036, he had this huge at the top from 63% to 79% and then tried to have withheld profits tax and morgenthau testified to congress the next year that we're not even coming close to the revenue projections here, the top. and it's because tax sheltering and really what our book is about in very great part is the extraordinary lengths that the top...
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edgar hoover has personally directed the fbi to try to find something on her. fiorello laguardia, the mayor of new york, has sworn that he's going to drive her out of the city, but even then, even once she rebuilt her savings and had enough money to retire. she hesitated to as she had seen enough of human autocracy to know that in the square world she'd be just another nobody. or worse, as she puts it, as miss pearl adler, the reformed procurer is an honest citizen. i a social outcast as polly. the proprieties of new york's most opulent bordello. society came to me. so she continues on through the fat cat years of the world war to build up and then the wars. but by 1945 she's now really casting about. for an exit plan. back in 18 excuse me, 1938, last vogel famous as the boy genius of the legendary william morris agency, had urged her to write her memoir. but at this time, nothing could have been less appetizing. she would been paid a pretty penny for it. but that would have just about covered the cost of her funeral. but as the years went on this idea of becom
edgar hoover has personally directed the fbi to try to find something on her. fiorello laguardia, the mayor of new york, has sworn that he's going to drive her out of the city, but even then, even once she rebuilt her savings and had enough money to retire. she hesitated to as she had seen enough of human autocracy to know that in the square world she'd be just another nobody. or worse, as she puts it, as miss pearl adler, the reformed procurer is an honest citizen. i a social outcast as polly....