Here is
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006987
an article on Hoover's secret files, documenting how LBJ and Bill Moyers used the files for to look for dirt on Goldwater staff, and other examples.
It was in the comments at Keiran Healy's site, to a post about Sam Alito's library card records. (we are today in the middle of the alito hearings.)
It's fully consistent with what I've been reading about Hoover.
Another snippet gleaned from the article - I hadn't realized Diris Kearns Goodwin was the wife of the Goodwin who was Kennedy and LBJ speechwriter.
This week I've been reading Jack Valenti on LBJ, although yesterday I set it down somewhere and haven't found it again yet.
Apparently I havent been keeping up this blog. During 2005 I've read about 20 books on Kennedy, as an outgrowth of my interest in LBJ.
This came from wondering about the 1960 election - if LBJ was so powerful, driven, corrupt, rich, etc., and reealy wanted to be president, what stopped him?
The answer it turns out is Joe Kennedy - more powerful, more driven, more corrupt,, more rich etc.
posted by gt @ 8:14 PM
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