I never saw any indication of homosexual tendencies in Hoover.… He did have a close association with [Clyde] Tolson. They conferred frequently during the day and they invariably ate lunch together…. On Wednesday they had dinner at Tolson's apartment, on Friday at Hoover's house.… I know from my talks with Hoover that he was genuinely fond of Tolson, as an older brother might be.
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W. Mark Felt in The FBI Pyramid from the Inside (1979)J. Edgar Hoover
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I can understand J. Edgar Hoover, because he wasn't inaccurate.… He said that we were the main threat. We were trying to be the main threat. We were trying to be the vanguard organization. J. Edgar Hoover was an adversary, but he had good information. We were plugged into all of the revolutionary groups in America, plus those abroad. We were working hand-in-hand with communist parties here and around the world, and he knew that.
Eldridge Cleaver
What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.
Babe Ruth
Remember, this country had a man named J. Edgar Hoover, whose job it was to destroy the credibility of any black man coming up.
Tupac Shakur
[Hoover was the greatest engineer in the world since] he had drained, ditched, and damned the United States in three years.
Herbert Hoover
[FBI Director J. Edgar] Hoover lied his eyes out to the [Warren] Commission – on Oswald, on Ruby, on their friends, the bullets, the gun, you name it.
Hale Boggs
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