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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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hoover wearing a cotton gown. instead of instead of using the opportunity for she was trying to support american farmers. and particularly american cotton farmers excuse me. liu was the first first lady to actively campaign for her husband we take that a lot for granted now, but she was the groundbreaker on this. and after she left the white house, just quick thumbnail. her contributions to stanford university, which is she relocated to the home. she had built in palo alto. she began an organization called friends of music which eventually became the stanford university school of music. but it began as a concert series to bring music culture to the area. she also personally funded several musician artists including a harpist him. she liked mildred dilling. she had just gone to a performance of mildred dilling a couple of hours before she passed away in 1940 before lou passed away in 1944. who also was instrumental in working with her colleagues and friends that she had at stanford university in women's health cent
hoover wearing a cotton gown. instead of instead of using the opportunity for she was trying to support american farmers. and particularly american cotton farmers excuse me. liu was the first first lady to actively campaign for her husband we take that a lot for granted now, but she was the groundbreaker on this. and after she left the white house, just quick thumbnail. her contributions to stanford university, which is she relocated to the home. she had built in palo alto. she began an...
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as i mentioned earlier, he was blacklisted by j edgar hoover. he could not have any connection with stevenson through that channel. but then he did manage to get himself into the army. general smith the director of the cia in the war had the responsibility trying to deal with war criminals. he put them in charge of an office to track down and he did a great job. he applied computer technology to tracing down the suspects. that was a job he did in paris. so he had no connection with stevenson and that, he did good work in the war in spite of the efforts. >> that was true in paris? >> guest: yes. one of the questions was what did he do in paris? so after he was? sue to first of all there is the war, he looks -- networks for the army the united nations for agency which help track down not the war criminals. when he finished he became security guy, the billionaire who lived in france. he did a little bit of work a happy retirement. especially amongst american muslim veterans who lived in paris. the dismissal with prejudice in the 1960s, hoover final
as i mentioned earlier, he was blacklisted by j edgar hoover. he could not have any connection with stevenson through that channel. but then he did manage to get himself into the army. general smith the director of the cia in the war had the responsibility trying to deal with war criminals. he put them in charge of an office to track down and he did a great job. he applied computer technology to tracing down the suspects. that was a job he did in paris. so he had no connection with stevenson...
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edgar hoover. so pauling in becoming this outspoken anti anti-communist, someone who was saying anti communism has gone crazy. you are undermining american science and american education by attack on these educators. when he said this j. edgar hoover became convinced that that pauling must be a communist. he must be doing the soviets bidding if he was insisting that the red scare in education was wrong or going too far far. hoover was particularly upset when he learned that pauling at first refused to to say anything about whether he had ever in the communist party, because he said, well, that's just pauling said, that's playing into their hands. so i'm just not even going to answer that question. eventually, caltech forced him to answer the question and he said truthfully that he had never been a communist. right. but hoover is convinced that's lie. and so what started to do was, first of all, he launched a major investigation. the angeles fbi office started interviewing everyone from pauling's pa
edgar hoover. so pauling in becoming this outspoken anti anti-communist, someone who was saying anti communism has gone crazy. you are undermining american science and american education by attack on these educators. when he said this j. edgar hoover became convinced that that pauling must be a communist. he must be doing the soviets bidding if he was insisting that the red scare in education was wrong or going too far far. hoover was particularly upset when he learned that pauling at first...
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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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hoover book club where we bring hoover fellows and friends together to discuss their latest writings our guest today is amy ziegart. she's the morris arnold and notaging cox senior fellow here at the hoover institution and professor of political science by courtesy at stanford university. she's also a senior fellow at stanford stream of spoly institute for the national studies chair of stafford's artificial intelligence and international security steering committee and a contributing writer at the atlantic but wait, there's more abc a guards also a book author her latest title being spies lives and algorithms the history and future of american intelligence. amy great to see you and congratulations on the book great to see youtube bill. thanks. it's always nice to your book rather than just be writing a book and that leads to my first question. i just listed countless things you're doing in and around the stanford world. how do you find time to write a book? well because we couldn't get together and we couldn't travel so i am moved all my books to my home office and hold up and that's
hoover book club where we bring hoover fellows and friends together to discuss their latest writings our guest today is amy ziegart. she's the morris arnold and notaging cox senior fellow here at the hoover institution and professor of political science by courtesy at stanford university. she's also a senior fellow at stanford stream of spoly institute for the national studies chair of stafford's artificial intelligence and international security steering committee and a contributing writer at...
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thank you for all you do on behalf of the hoover institution. the title again abc guards book is spies lies and algorithms the history and future of american intelligence if you want to follow amy on twitter. yes. she is there her twitter handle. is that amy ziegard? i'll spell it out for you. that is m a m y z e g a r t at amy ziegart you could also sign up for the hoover daily report, which will deliver you the best work of m e z guard to your inbox every weekday very simple to do that. just go to hoover dot or click on the publications tab go to where it says daily report and subscribe and anytime maybe writes or says something. there you are. noah tells us
thank you for all you do on behalf of the hoover institution. the title again abc guards book is spies lies and algorithms the history and future of american intelligence if you want to follow amy on twitter. yes. she is there her twitter handle. is that amy ziegard? i'll spell it out for you. that is m a m y z e g a r t at amy ziegart you could also sign up for the hoover daily report, which will deliver you the best work of m e z guard to your inbox every weekday very simple to do that. just...
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edgar hoover. and as the war is coming towards everyone, there is a general assumption that the war, europe is going to end in 45. and there's a there's a fear that the war in the pacific go on, uh, until, uh, much longer. people don't know about the atomic bomb. uh, there was a saying out in the pacific, uh, the, we'll see the golden gate in 48. can you imagine. so anyway, but as the war in europe is coming to a close, there is this the people are jockeying. these three camps are jockeying for position and saying, you know, we need to continue our activities after the war. and donovan says you need a central intelligence agency. uh, the codebreakers say we army and navy and brits need to collaborate and then hoover says, don't worry, folks, i can do it all. so there's a there's a bit of a struggle in washington. and and there's a there's a sincere effort on the part of more the truman administration, the roosevelt administration, uh, to sort this out and to do is start america intelligence off on
edgar hoover. and as the war is coming towards everyone, there is a general assumption that the war, europe is going to end in 45. and there's a there's a fear that the war in the pacific go on, uh, until, uh, much longer. people don't know about the atomic bomb. uh, there was a saying out in the pacific, uh, the, we'll see the golden gate in 48. can you imagine. so anyway, but as the war in europe is coming to a close, there is this the people are jockeying. these three camps are jockeying for...
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edgar hoover. she's the former chair of the department of journalism at san francisco state university and the author of the burglary: the discovery of j. edgar hoover's secret fbi. betty medsger. [applause] betty medsger: i'm honored and humbled to be part of this panel that seeks justice for julian assange, sorely needed. i'm here with a case study, something that i think shows very clearly the great importance of protecting whistleblowers and the necessity of a free press. and it is the story of the people -- the impact of the people who burglarized an fbi office in 1971 and then stole every file in the office and made them public. i've worked with them twice -- when i didn't know them, and they sent files to me, back in 1971, and then when i worked on the book, when they revealed their identity, even though the fbi had at that time the largest search that they had ever had and didn't find the burglars. they came out in 2014. these eight people were outside whistleblowers. they were average citi
edgar hoover. she's the former chair of the department of journalism at san francisco state university and the author of the burglary: the discovery of j. edgar hoover's secret fbi. betty medsger. [applause] betty medsger: i'm honored and humbled to be part of this panel that seeks justice for julian assange, sorely needed. i'm here with a case study, something that i think shows very clearly the great importance of protecting whistleblowers and the necessity of a free press. and it is the...
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i'm sure there is someone from the j edgar hoover building, which is just a few blocks down the street, sitting in the audience somewhere. so why it write this down and take this to your bosses. we will free julian, we will freaked annual, we will bring edward home. and you can put in my fbi file that i said that. thank you very much. amy goodman: kevin gosztola is our next speaker, journalist, author, who's worked extensively on u.s. violations of civil liberties, in particular in the cases of john kiriakou, chelsea manning and julian assange. kevin gastonia is our next speaker, he's worked extensively on u.s. violates a shuns of some u.s. civil liberties. particularly of john kerry, iq chelsea manning and julian assange. she is managing editor of shadow, proof a press organization which exposes systemic abuses of power in government and business. >> thank you, it is an honor to be here and be part of this really esteemed group of delegates. and, also this is a far better event than the hayden center event that was held back in december with some very serious people, including a brief
i'm sure there is someone from the j edgar hoover building, which is just a few blocks down the street, sitting in the audience somewhere. so why it write this down and take this to your bosses. we will free julian, we will freaked annual, we will bring edward home. and you can put in my fbi file that i said that. thank you very much. amy goodman: kevin gosztola is our next speaker, journalist, author, who's worked extensively on u.s. violations of civil liberties, in particular in the cases of...
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fbi records especially in the hoover days were incredibly redundant. they duplicated information across a wide swath of things for you the organizations caption about what it was, who it was and so forth. so to the extent you can put a lot of information in there. so i had to be careful in the one sense i was not supposed to be using the details i might get for my day job and it turns out a friend of mine was processing so i could not speak to her about that. but you end up balancing the sayings and trying too as credible a job as you can. i was pleased with my dissertation i turned it into a book and movie rights are going and all that sort of thing. but who knows maybe in my post bureau career. brexit's essence like any of them are falsifying records and drink those kinds of things that you thought the spy museum either. thanks for your patience. >> good people there. >> this address to the representative from osd it applies to all three of you. you make your job from the point of your institution is to rapidly respond to requests and support the mis
fbi records especially in the hoover days were incredibly redundant. they duplicated information across a wide swath of things for you the organizations caption about what it was, who it was and so forth. so to the extent you can put a lot of information in there. so i had to be careful in the one sense i was not supposed to be using the details i might get for my day job and it turns out a friend of mine was processing so i could not speak to her about that. but you end up balancing the...
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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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you look at the pre hoover area, stuck over eventually. you've been able to access them for a good long time. overall, fbi estimated files to be considered close to the public. now, that set, a lot of what the fbi does come down to the public because when you are investigating crime, investigating a national security threat that touches on a national security law, it ends up in court. the court produces a public record. pieces up the fbi records and's up in public. it was not until the late 1960s, early 1970s when the combination of government leaks, things like the break-in of the fbi presidency it to see parts of india that led to the exposure, among other things, a program called counterintelligence program or cointelpro. everyone heard the word, very few know what it actually was. these things start to come out in public. of course, it was a mix of the watergate era, to, which, in this case, the use of the government right of power by the president, the presidents administration, the use and misuse of the intelligence community by pres
you look at the pre hoover area, stuck over eventually. you've been able to access them for a good long time. overall, fbi estimated files to be considered close to the public. now, that set, a lot of what the fbi does come down to the public because when you are investigating crime, investigating a national security threat that touches on a national security law, it ends up in court. the court produces a public record. pieces up the fbi records and's up in public. it was not until the late...
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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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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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my name is tom schwartz director of the herbert hoover presidential library museum. before i introduce today's author a few housekeeping matters. if you've not seen our new temporary exhibit. deliverance america and the famine
my name is tom schwartz director of the herbert hoover presidential library museum. before i introduce today's author a few housekeeping matters. if you've not seen our new temporary exhibit. deliverance america and the famine
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edgar hoover, jim thorpe, valentine, and picasso.
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herbert hoover as the 30 --. >> 31. >> at the 1931 world series. he throughout the first pitch. as he left the field, the fans booed him. they started to cheer the said we want to be here. >> i was going to say, wasn't about for more politics, but it is about neither. >> they were angry about not having beer. >> so it was about politics, little bit. >> it was. >> there was another booing in the early 50's. harry truman was at a ballgame and not in the first game, but he had just fired douglas macarthur. as he left the field, the fans -- macarthur was a great hero, locally. he had just made the old soldiers never die speech to congress. truman appeared at the next ballgame and he was roundly booed by the fans. a much bigger booing, if you will was at the 19 -- 2019 world series when president trump appeared on the big screen. he didn't throughout the first ball, and he didn't sit in the stands, either, the fans recognized trump and booed him vigorously. >> i was thinking, the national opening day, they have a home game in washington on thursday. is there any chance the president
herbert hoover as the 30 --. >> 31. >> at the 1931 world series. he throughout the first pitch. as he left the field, the fans booed him. they started to cheer the said we want to be here. >> i was going to say, wasn't about for more politics, but it is about neither. >> they were angry about not having beer. >> so it was about politics, little bit. >> it was. >> there was another booing in the early 50's. harry truman was at a ballgame and not in the...
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and herbert hoover had a role in helping the russians with that famine. yes. yes. that's a thank you for that. a lot of people think there was only one famine under communism or maybe two, if they know about china or, another country, then they might say three. but there are repeated famines that are state made, that are communist made, and lenin is responsible for for a very bad famine in the early 1920s. and this is the leading up to it. and that's part of what this headline is also capturing for our visitors. well, let's go into the next gallery and see what's in there. 1924, joseph stalin to power. how did he accomplish that? yes. so stalin, this gallery is a lot about the stalin years through the end of world war two. unfortunately, he is still the communist dictator in charge, even past that. but he works to consolidate his power. there are others who want to be the immediate successor to lenin and stalin behind the scenes and and already being what we would. stalin esque figures out how to consolidate power, and he does so by later, several years in but he's
and herbert hoover had a role in helping the russians with that famine. yes. yes. that's a thank you for that. a lot of people think there was only one famine under communism or maybe two, if they know about china or, another country, then they might say three. but there are repeated famines that are state made, that are communist made, and lenin is responsible for for a very bad famine in the early 1920s. and this is the leading up to it. and that's part of what this headline is also capturing...
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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...