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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

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