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https://www.youtube.com/embed/YnFEIDvTvtc?modestbranding=1&loop=1&start=4325&end=4329
and kind of transferred that over to the new left
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wasn't very popular in the 1950s,
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real popular constituencies, a lot of people who supported them.
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And so his formula suddenly didn't work in the 1960s.
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He seemed much more out of touch with the new generations
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Some of it was that he couldn't get out
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of a Cold War mentality.
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And then I think there was also just a sort of changing
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where techniques that were once deemed tolerable
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or acceptable, you were really seeing a different set
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And so a lot of Hoover's techniques as well
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I was gonna ask, what sources gave you like it sounds like he's a very political
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person and I'm wondering where you felt like you got the most frank and honest access to
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his voice and his thinking and his mind in correspondence or anything else. I think there
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are a couple of different things that come to mind.
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So one is, are the FBI files themselves, which as I said, have all sorts of problems, right?
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They're police files, and so they have certain, you know, obvious biases, et cetera.
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They also are often redacted, so you can't find out everything that's in them.
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is the FBI's file on the CIA, which
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has page after page where they say, dear director,
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page after page of redaction.
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he believed that no one else would ever have access.
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aside from the courts, which occasionally forced
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Hoover believed he had total control over those files, and therefore, they're pretty candid in these files,
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both about when you read their files on Martin Luther King
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And so he's just scrawling all of these often kind
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of epithets and his true opinions of many people.
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And then the most direct and literal access to his voice
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Lots of their phone conversations are recorded
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And they are talking about a vast array of things.
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And they're often pretty frank with each other in those.
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I'm not sure if you're familiar with the organization that's called The Family.
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They claim that Supreme Court justices and senators.
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In your research, did you find any connection between Hoover and the family?
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And I'm generally familiar with the family
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without knowing all of the specifics.
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But Hoover's relationship with the right
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and with a certain kind of nascent religious right that's
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was really interesting to me.
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that starts in the 50s and into the 60s
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takes aim at federal bureaucrats as the worst people
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in the world, is anti-statist in lots of ways,
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a kind of Buckley-ite critique of the federal government.
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Hoover was always the one federal servant,
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lifetime career bureaucrat that they loved.
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And one of the places that this emerges pretty dramatically
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far-right, kind of grassroots, anti-communist organization
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And the John Birch Society loves Hoover.
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But Hoover himself was actually pretty skeptical
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because he thought they were extremist,
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of his relationship with an organization like the family.
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is that Hoover was himself, I think
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he considered himself a kind of deeply religious Christian.
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He didn't go to church all that often from what I can tell, but he
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spoke often, particularly in the 1950s, about the need for religiosity. He had,
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you know, send all your children to Sunday school. He had been a Sunday
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school teacher. And I think institutionally he then begins to bring
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a lot of that into the FBI. So he begins to hire Mormons in much greater numbers
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and Catholics in much greater numbers in the 50s and 60s.
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And he begins to bring a set of religious rituals, communion
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breakfasts, prayer breakfasts into the FBI itself.
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some of that similar kind of work within the Bureau itself.
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So it sounds like with the religious part of his life,
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there's that dichotomy again between what he is portraying
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Looking at his photo album and his writings,
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the marginalia that you surely poured over for years,
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for career advancement, or he was skillful enough
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to occupy both spheres and do it to his bureaucratic success?
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That's a great question, and I'm not sure I found the final
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There is one of my favorite discoveries that helped me get
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a little sense of that maybe is that in 1950 he was on vacation with Clyde
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Tolson in Los Angeles and a reporter started following them around. They
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didn't see the reporter but you know they went to the farmer's market together, they went and got ice cream cones together, and then they went to a bookstore,
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and this reporter was following them, and the reporter looked at the books that they were buying,
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and Tolson was buying a couple of westerns, you know, beach reading, but Hoover was buying two books by a psychoanalyst
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named Karen Horne, who was a famous psychoanalyst
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And one was called Our Inner Conflict,
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and the other was called Self Analysis.
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And so in particular, our inner conflict
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what it does when your public image
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is so radically different from the self that you know. And what
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that does to someone to have that kind of radical difference. You're one thing
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in public, you're another thing in private, and you have to you have to live
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with that. And the premise of that book was that it produced a certain kind of grandiosity, a certain sort of rigidity, and a kind of hyper-policing
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of your public image and of those around you, right?
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A heightened need for control, et cetera.
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So I don't know if we can take this and therefore apply it
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that it seemed that he himself was actually
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trying to sort out that question in ways that he couldn't speak
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I mean, some of it must have had to do with his sexuality. I mean, some of it must have had to do with his sexuality.
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So all I can say is that there are glimmers
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even if they weren't what God had in mind.
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I think it's fascinating that the concept of the deep state is living with us and become
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new and it seems like his role in creating what now people think of as the deep state
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was so, what do you think about his sort of ongoing legacy, both with the nation and with
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So one of the things that's been really fascinating to me
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over the last five years, really during the Trump era,
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is to see a kind of dramatic reversal in what we got,
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really from the end of Hoover's life up until fairly recently,
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which is a politics in which, in the wake of Hoover's life up until fairly recently, which is politics in which, in the wake of Hoover's death,
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