He battled the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, encouraged McCarthy and single-handedly changed the course of history. Hired by F.D.R. to be the director of the FBI, Hoover erected the most sophisticated investigatory agency in the world.
J. Edgar Hoover
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Annie M. Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Joseph McCarthy
John F. Kennedy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Gaston Means
Harry S. Truman
A. Mitchell Palmer
Clyde Tolson
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