edgar hoover. but she was known very much the mother of the fbi. so that was often how we refused to her. this is a fascinating piece of lobbying. and playing up that affiliation and the close tie they had. >> by the time we get to the late 1930s, early 1940s we start to see a different group of that pioneering women come into congress. world war ii shapes the role of society. women hold jobs that men previously held as men go off to fight in the service. women who come into congress occurring during that era begin to advocate a role for women outside the home. mary norton was one of them. she was constantly urging women to be involved in politics, to be involved outside the home. even when the war ended she feared that might contract again. and women would kind of be forced back into a domesticated role. one of the prominent woman in the 1940s is helen gahagan douglas. she was well-known to constituents. she represented a district that encompassed part of los angeles. she was a star of the stage. she was married to melvin douglas, the actor. and s

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the fbi had been conducting its own very questionable activities under j edgar hoover. and those get very curtailed. the central intelligence agency has permanent oversight thatlished by the congress is not just a kind of blip on the radar, it is permanently under supervision, which is why we get now, for example, dianne feinstein, who has an investigation into the cia's enhanced interrogation tactics. that kind of coming from the foundations of oversight that get laid down by the church and pike committees. and they are also very important for ushering in a new era in the cia, in the sense that a lot of the more active, or more, you might say, reckless things the cia had done in the cold war -- for some time, at least -- get curtailed. how long or if they are just changing to different places rather than what they had been doing, that is a question for debate. pike think the church and committees really changed the environment in which the cia is working and. it knows that there is some people looking at it now when it had it known that before. mr. scully: this is a mi

edgar hoover and president johnson and a lot of people bleef believed that somehow these riots were organizediracy? >> there was conspiracy here, we absolutely determined that was not true. that hostility was so high, that any random spark could set them off and that is whad happened. so we said what happened, there was no conspiracy here. >> seven months of investigation led to the kerner commission report, a 426 page bold indictment of race relations if of 1960s america best remembered for a single line. >> our nation is moving towards two societies, one white, one black, separate and unequal. >> discrimination and segregation have long permeated american life, now threaten the live of every american. this deepening divide is not inevitable. the movement poord can be apart can be stopped. the response was surprising. while the kerner report became a best seller, the president that commissioned the commission chose to ignore them. >> he refused to even meet with us and he never responded to us at all about what we'd done or that he accepted it. >> 50 years after watts, around the start of th

edgar hoover fbi building. in one of the letters he said the fbi is a joke.be catching us any time soon. >> the fbi, of course, had no idea about the unabomber's identity or whereabouts. and ted kaczynski took great pains to make sure he didn't leave a single clue. >> he would take files and he would file everything down after he built something so that he could ensure that he was getting rid of fingerprints. he was obsessed about leaving fingerprint evidence. >> kaczynski also planted false clues to throw investigators off the trail. >> he went to a bathroom at the bus station in missoula, montana, and he actually took hairs off the floor of the restroom. and then in subsequent bombs, he would take those hairs and put them in between layers of tape. and the whole idea was when the subsequent bombs exploded at a crime scene, we would think that hair might have something to do with the unabomber. when he was out on a run to collect information or to collect components for his bombs, he would make sure he had a disguise. he put cotton up his nose so his nostril

there are fbi reports coming to johnson from j edgar hoover who despised king and the civil rights movement. johnson is wary, but you can see evidence that he is an ally. but allies are not necessarily people that go swimming naked in the white house pool, which a lot of people did. allies are people that often get along the least. so the both of things that they are going for an things that they want to read to that point is the trick in politics. it is the art of the possible. you have two men who were exquisite politicians. host: we will hear that and family will get joe califano's thoughts. dr. king, it's very interesting mr. president, to note that the only state you did not carry in the south was my home state. and less than 40% of the negroes registered to vote. [indiscernible] at the university of texas a recent article brought this out very clearly, to demonstrate the importance of negroes registered to vote in the south and it will be a coalition of the negro vote and the moderate white vote that will make the new south. president johnson: that is exactly right. i think it is impo

edgar hoover and richard nixon who grew up in poverty, not poverty but you know so i'm just saying that's an area that the young catholics were rebelling against their church and there were a lot of them marching on the left with father mohaqiq etc.. that was leaving out a group of americana so that's what i'm saying the wealthy buckley and kennedy family and catholic frustration also wanted somebody to look at as well. who became a punching bag is the jaeger hoover and the protestant people that came from poverty. >> i used the phrase waspy. i did mention he was catholic but i use it as a cultural marker is the refined life he lived. i have a part in the book where he talk about what it meant to him to be catholic. he was no fan of vatican ii and the changes. he didn't hate all of them but he was not a friend of them. he was a devout catholic and claim to have never wavered in his belief his whole life. i'd like you are suggesting seem to think that made him, we talked about the competence of ego that made him -- made them work called that because he was sure he was in possession of the

young used to say that our offices are recording studios of j edgar jover is the engineer -- and edgar hoover is the engineer. we weres assumed that exposed to government forces behind our backs. and in the days since then we have been able to access through freedom of information reports, access to government, old state and federal. it is clear that that is what was happening. we were spied upon and listened to and illegally wiretap and wiretappedillegally and treated as if we were in a studio. >> question to the left. >> you bring up dr. king and the civil rights movement. he was killed at a time when he was directing his message about socioeconomic inequality. i would like to find out what are your ideas about what is the biggest all-star goal and what should we be doing now? julian bond: i do not know if you have seen the "new york times" this sunday, the weekly feature with a statistical chart proving some point, had a page or most of a page dedicated to the proposition that republicans have experienced the greatest gains in membership among white, low income whites. the people most like

edgar hoover refuses. partly because hoover's shrewd politician it is can see that the wind is changing the assorted the lawsuits are illegal bugging and tapping. the warren court and the supreme court, the law starting to change. who has been invisible empire a black belt all these years. i think of going to get out of this business because we'll all get caught. what that meant was that nixon, since the fbi wouldn't do it anymore, nixon went in house and degraded the plumbers. that was an in hous house opera. lsaps all terribly sinister but i think about the plumbers is that they were clumsy. they were bad at it. they were glutes. they may have once been fbi, cia and all that but they were actually ham-handed. hunt had been dumped on the white house by the cia. they're kind of get rid of in the richard helms was just time to find a job for hunt to get rid of them. and the nixon staffers just didn't realize, and how do these guys who were bad at it, got caught, got caught breaking into the watergate and al

j edgar hoover did not wish this to be emphasized either.oryerred the lone nut of the assassination. if it were shown also was a subversive communist the fbi would be held liable for not having identified him and protected the president. the fbi is not responsible for identifying lone nuts. less -- it should be said the public did not know in 1963 of the kennedy administration efforts to eliminate castro. this was not made public until 1975 when the church commission investigated efforts by the cia when they disclosed efforts by the eisenhower and kennedy administration to assassinate leaders. the public did not have the information needed to put these pieces together that leaders did. i have a long chapter on oswald that i will not get into. also was a strange and bizarre character in the cold war, defecting to the soviet union in 1962.returning in being in contact with the communist arty and the socialist workers party. he purchased a rifle and a the first1963, and thing he did was try to assassinate the head of the john birch society in d

edgar hoover launch aid counterintelligence program that involved widespread surveillance of mostly law-abidingizens in aggressive efforts to disrupt political organizations including the communist party and the black panthers. the program may be most notorious for bugging martin luther king's hotel rooms in an attempt to catch him in uncompromising situations. there were outcries from congress as well as the american public. yet some say that era is reminiscent in light of the new reporting by the black lives matter movement by intercept. just a few weeks ago, intercept reported that security has been analyzing, and now intercept is supporting that undercover police have derailed black lives matter in new york. and in dallas, the author of those intercept articles, george joseph. hello to all of you. george, what did your investigation find, and is anything here actually outside of the rules? >> we did two investigations. one was a few weeks ago when we found the department of homeland security, our country's supposed terrorist group, was monitoring the country, looking at twitters, looking at