Most of what people think they know about J. Edgar Hoover is nonsense, typically associated with his wearing a dress, high heels, and a boa.
During his nearly half-century as FBI director, he was hailed as the chief defender of Americanism against subversion and criminality. After his death, he became an icon of government surveillance. Progressives portray him as a reactionary foe of civil rights. Some on the right now think him a harbinger of the “deep state.”
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