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Authors: Curt Gentry
Tags: #General, #Biography & Autobiography, #United States, #Political Science, #Law Enforcement, #History, #Fiction, #Historical, #20th Century, #American Government
Hillard, David, 620
Hillenkoetter, Adm. Roscoe H., 392
Hillings, Patrick J., 396
Hillman, Sidney, 221
Hiss, Alger,
257,
344-45, 346, 350
n,
357, 358, 402
espionage charge against, 360-64, 365-66, 438-39
Hoover’s campaign against (1946), 347-49
Hiss, Donald, 344-45, 346
Hiss, Priscilla, 361, 363, 366
n
Hitler, Adolf, 468
Hitz, John, 63
Hoffa, Jimmy, 493, 495-96, 586, 587, 597, 600
Hogan, Frank, 221
Holley, Lillian,
252
Hollis, Herman, 174, 175
Hollywood Reporter,
648
Holmes, Edna, 691
Holmes, Julius, 316
Holt, Henry, 387
Holzoff, Alexander, 364
homosexuals:
FBI agents, 755
Hoover’s blackmail of, 412-13
Welles case, 307-10
Hood, Richard, 353
Hoover, Annie Marie Scheitlin (mother), 63-64, 67, 117, 216-17, 247, 248
Hoover, Dickerson N. (father), 63, 68, 117,
247
Hoover, Dickerson N., Jr. (brother), 63-64, 68
Hoover, Herbert C., 125, 146, 147-48, 151, 152-53, 155, 228-29
Hoover, J. Edgar,
247, 248, 249, 250, 253, 254, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 512, 513, 520, 521, 522, 523, 524
amphetamine use, 692
n
antiradical activities (1917), 73
appearance, 65, 159
arrests, failure to make, 186-87
attorneys general, relations with, 155-56, 583
n,
712-13
bachelorhood, 66
Baldwin and, 138-40, 141-42
Baughman’s funeral, 698-99
Biddle and, 242-44
birth, 62
Burns and, 115-16
Castro assassination plot, 489
n
celebrities and, 384-85
charitable activities, 332, 448
childhood, 63-64
civil rights law of 1956 and, 441-42
Clark, Ramsey, and, 598-601
Clark, Tom, and, 323-24
college career, 67-68
communism, view of, 81
congressional criticism of, 665-66, 677-79
death, 19-21, 35-36
cover-up regarding, 32, 53, 725-26
reactions to, 21-35, 39-40
death, fear of, 462, 705-6
debating skills, 64-65
Dewey campaign of 1948, assistance for, 356-59
Dodd and, 591-92
dogs owned by, 117n, 730
n
Donovan and, 135-36
Dulles, Allen, and, 417-19
Eisenhower and, 403-5
enemies:
rapprochement with, 711-12
treatment of, 386-88, 390-91
epitaph, 58
estate of, 730-31
FBI personnel, criticisms from, 600, 604
“FBI” TV program, 580, 581, 582
files of,
see
files of J. Edgar Hoover
final days, 717-20
firing of, Nixon’s plans for, 691, 699-703
food preferences, 117
funeral, 37-38, 41-42, 46-47, 48-50,
525, 526,
721-23
germs, fear of, 280, 462, 618
on ghetto riots of 1967, 601, 603
GID, appointment to, 78, 79
Goldman-Berkman deportations, 85-88
good name, concern for, 57, 117, 706
hats worn by, 22
health problems, 461-62, 705-6, 727
height of, 65
high school student, 62, 64-65
Hiss, campaign against, 347-49
history, alteration of, 389-90
hobbies, 190
homosexuality rumor, 159, 179-80, 192, 240, 531
HUAC appearances, 354
Hughes “contribution” to Nixon, 648-50
Huston Plan, 652-58
informants for, 412-13
interviews given by, 660-64, 712-13
Johnson and, 557-60, 614
Justice Department, hired by, 68-69
Justice Department scandals (1950-52), 394-97
Katzenbach and, 583-84
Kennedy, John, and, 480-81, 536
Kennedy, John, assassination, 537
Kennedy, Robert, and, 472-73, 474, 475-80, 494, 536, 662-63
King:
denunciations of, 573
summit meeting with, 574-75
leaks to press, 553
n
library work, 67
McCarthy and, 378-80, 430-32, 435-36
memos, affinity for, 136
Mexico visit, 215
military commissions, 279
misappropriation of government time, money, equipment, and services, 725-26, 743-44, 746
mother’s death, 216-17
murder rumor, 32, 36, 726-28
New York visits, 217, 221-22
Nichols’s resignation, 450-51
nicknames, 65-66
Nixon administration “homosexualists,” 624-26
Nixon and, 613, 616-18, 640-41, 683, 710
Nixon’s inauguration, 615-16
nose of, 65, 66
office of, 617-18
organized crime, attitude toward, 327-30, 453-55, 529-30
OSS super-agency plan, 312, 313, 314
paranoia, 239-40, 462
phobias, 462
policy-making role, 243
Popov and, 270-71, 272
prejudices, 265
n,
500
n
presidential aspirations, 437, 438
press relations,
see
press coverage of Hoover
public opinion on, 681
n,
717
Red raids of 1919-20, 79, 82, 84, 90, 91-92, 94-102
religious life, 64
retirement issue, 472
n,
536, 560-61, 601, 623-24, 673, 677-79, 681, 684, 688, 713
Roosevelt, Eleanor, and, 299-306, 390-91
Roosevelt, Franklin:
death of, 317-18
relationship with, 223-24, 263-64
salary, 194, 380
n
self-perception, 64, 65
seventieth birthday, 576
sleeping habits, 21
socializing, 683-84
special favors for supporters, 383-84
sports, love for, 65-66
statistics, use of, 115-16
steel price-fixing incident, 491
Stone, affection for, 143
stuttering, 64-65
Supreme Court and, 410-12, 627-30
symbolic status for, 179
taping of conversations, 618
tax evasion, 448, 726, 730
n
temper tantrums, 659
thirty-eighth anniversary as director, 492-93
Tolson, relationship with, 190-92
Truman and, 321-22, 429-30
twenty-fifth anniversary as director, 364
vacations, 217-18, 658-59
Victorian sensibility, 62-63
on Vietnam antiwar movement, 604-5
Warren Commission and, 546-47, 548, 552, 555-56
Washington, D.C., feelings for, 63
Wheeler prosecution, 121
White case, 349-52
will of, 39, 691-92, 730
work ethic, 149
World War I service, avoidance of, 68
writings, 176, 388, 447-48, 666
see also
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hoover, Lillian (sister), 63, 68, 216-17
Hoover home (Seward Sq.), 63,
247
Hoover home (Thirtieth Place), 21, 39, 217,
514, 515,
640
Hoover’s FBI: The Man and the Myth
(Turner), 387-88
Hopkins, Harry, 181, 294, 301, 305, 307, 308, 311, 313
Hopkins, Louise Macy, 311, 315
Hopper, Hedda, 384
Hosty, James P., Jr., 543-47, 549-50, 556
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 303, 352-53, 357-58
Ernst and, 235
Fascist threat and, 204
FBI, relationship with, 240-42, 353-55
film industry, investigation of, 353-54, 383
Hiss investigations, 344-45, 360, 361-63
Lowenthal and, 386
Houston, Lawrence R., 460, 491-92
Howard, Bill, 659
Howard, Edward Lee, 755
Howe, Kenneth, 545
Howe, Louis, 157, 158, 181
Howell, Glenn, 153
Howland, Weston, 267
Hruska, Roman, 407
Hudson, Rock, 719
Hughes, Charles Evans, 100, 242
Hughes, Harold, 679
Hughes, Howard, 625, 648-49
Hughes, Maury, 457
Hughes, Vincent, 132, 148, 149
Hull, Cordell, 207, 307, 309-10
Hume, Brit, 717
Hummer, Ed, 361, 362
Humphrey, Hubert H., 571, 586, 608
Humphreys, Murray, 456, 457
Hundley, William, 531, 536
Hunt, E. Howard, 36, 47, 686
Hunt, H. L., 432
Hunter, Fred, 188, 192, 194
Hunter, Capt. Samuel A. D., 469
Hurt, Clarence, 169, 174, 194,
254
Huston, Tom Charles, 653-54, 655, 656, 657, 658
Ichord, Richard, 666
Ickes, Harold, 160, 227, 311
n
Ingram, Timothy, 390
Innis, Roy, 719
Internal Revenue Service, 412
International Association of Chiefs of Police, 416-17
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union, 245
International Workers of the World (IWW), 70, 71, 96
Irey, Elmer, 160, 161, 163, 180-81
Irvine
v.
California
(1954), 406