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https://www.youtube.com/embed/YnFEIDvTvtc?modestbranding=1&loop=1&start=1958&end=1966
an introduction to the language and set of ideas that become the cause of his life, which
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He's initiated into that very early on as a young man.
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of the new communist parties forming in the United States.
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and being one of the great government experts on communism.
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/YnFEIDvTvtc?modestbranding=1&loop=1&start=1990&end=1995
And he's saying very similar things in the 1940s.
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/YnFEIDvTvtc?modestbranding=1&loop=1&start=1994&end=1998
He's saying very similar things in the 1970s
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to what he first starts to articulate in 19 and 1920
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that he first comes into contact and then conflict
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with new civil liberties organizations that are just
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going to kind of be in a dance with for the rest
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of his career, most notably the ACLU, which
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these struggles during the Red Scare.
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From there, despite the controversies of the Palmer Raids,
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/YnFEIDvTvtc?modestbranding=1&loop=1&start=2034&end=2040
Hoover does get another quick promotion in 1921.
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As the Democrats leave power, the Republicans come in.
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Hoover manages to stay on and gets a promotion
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to become assistant director of the Bureau of Investigation
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And then in 1924, three years later,
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at the ripe old age of 29, becomes
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which is the job that he holds for the rest of his life.
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/YnFEIDvTvtc?modestbranding=1&loop=1&start=2066&end=2070
So I've spent a long time on Hoover's early years,
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but I think you can see during these early years
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a lot of the themes developing that he is going to then
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learn to build upon, to operationalize
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over the course of his career at the head of the Bureau.
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And I think one of the puzzles and interesting aspects of a figure like Hoover is that on
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the one hand, he has a very fixed set of ideas about government, about race,
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about communism, about religion that are there
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from the moment he begins this work to the moment that he
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His words sound incredibly similar
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who is incredibly adaptable, able to learn,
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and in particular, able to respond to and build
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is a story of various crises that then produce
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big shifts in the government, growth of the security state,
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and delivering on what he thinks the people above him,
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as well as those below him, his popular constituency,
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on his early years from 1895 to 1924,
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Part two then moves into looking at the 1920s and 1930s as the
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periods when he really built the institution that we know as the FBI. It
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is very strange for us to think about, but when Hoover came in in 1924 as this
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young new director of the Bureau, he really is brought in as a reformer.
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He's brought in as a kind of energetic young reformer,
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trained in the law, trained in information technology,
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trained in a certain kind of professionalism,
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and his job is to professionalize and clean up the Bureau,
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which has been A, kind of tiny backwater,
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but B, a mess even at that, full of corruption,
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He is a young professional steeped
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in progressive ideas about science,
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about expertise, about education, and really his vision
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when he becomes head of the Bureau is to remake it
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as a kind of elite law enforcement agency
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that is going to be a model of these progressive era ideas
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about facts and science and expertise and education within the world
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of law enforcement. As you can see here, merit. Often he's contrasted with figures
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like Sherlock Holmes, the kind of rogue detective, right, and Hoover's men are
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going to be a different kind of professional agent. He promises not to do lots of things,
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says they are unsuited to the work of something like the FBI.
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They're never going to coerce anyone into doing anything.
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Of course, this changes a little bit over time, as you will see.
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And he sets about not only kind of,
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white-collar professional law enforcement symbols.
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Many of them come straight out of his beloved institutions,
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both George Washington University and Kappa Alpha.
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This is a newspaper feature on the many young GW men
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who are remaking the Bureau in the 20s and 30s.
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The most important of those men is this fellow here
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Clyde Tolson was a graduate of GW. He graduated a few years after Hoover,
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entered the Bureau in 1928, and went on very quickly to rise to the number two position
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at the Bureau and to occupy that position at Hoover's right hand for the rest of his life as well.
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is not just the associate director of the FBI,
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but is it also in many ways Hoover's life partner,
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his social partner, and the closest thing
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that Hoover ever had to a spouse.
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But I'll just say a few things right now.
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One is that Tolson is by far the most important relationship
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get married, he does not have children, but he and Tolson really relate to each
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other as a social couple in the way that you might expect that spouses would. They
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not only work together, they have all of their meals together, they vacation
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together, they socialize together. And they're pretty widely accepted
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in Washington, New York, Florida, California,
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So there are lots of nice scenes in the book of Hoover
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and Clyde double dating with, say, Dick and Pat Nixon.
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And so Hoover's life, his private life, his social life, his intimate life, is,
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I would say, a funny combination of on the one hand being very, very public and open,
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and then of course having lots of secrets as well. I'll show you a little bit about Hoover and
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Tolson. So this is one of my favorite pictures of them together.
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This is a celebration of Tolson's 20 years at the FBI.
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It might have been his 15th, but one of Tolson's anniversaries
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but it looks kind of like a wedding photo, right?
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I think the more interesting photos, and one of the places
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that I really tried to access, not only their public life
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I mean, their Broadway shows, and nightclubs, and vacations,
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The horse track, the baseball game, but a
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little bit more of their interiority. What did any of this mean to them? One of
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the best sources for that was Hoover's private photo album. I've reproduced some
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of those photos there, but that photo album is really filled with fairly
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intimate portraits, particularly in the 30s and
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40s, of their vacations together in places like Miami and California. So
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here's a shot, presumably taken by Tolson of Hoover at the beach, getting
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