its founding director was jay edgar hoover. for the first 37 years that the fbi existed, they never had another director. they only relinquished the fbi when they pried it from his cold, dead hands. in our system of government, judges get lifetime tenure but other than that, nobody else is supposed to serve for life. and jay edgar hoover appointed himself fbi director for life and one of the ways that he was able to hold on to that job for 37 years, one of the ways to hold on to that power for the length of his life is because politicians were terrified of him and for good reason. he kept files on all sorts of politicians and he was absolutely not above blackmailing politicians in order to keep him in line and keep himself in power. so that eliminated the threat that anybody was going to reach into the fbi from the outside and remove him as director. but he also had to manage the other direction and make sure he'd never be toppled from within the fbi. and, you know, it's not like there wasn't cause. it's not like the fbi or jay

edgar hoover himself was convinced she was not the nazi spy but e was continued the observation under surveillance it was remarkable. >> keyword author of two other books. what is the legacy of the administration? >> obviously the legacy will be looked at the debt coming years. that is the most important thing falling the great financial crisis most are not aware how close to does great depression the of their great accomplishment is a stepping stone to health care reform and then moving on. and maybe the legacy would be less but only time will tell. harry truman was the most unpopular politicians in america and is considered a great president so time will tell but obviously historic leave significant. >> and has held elected office before as the general and the army. like mr. president obama the first one to beat us major party but what did the campaign duplex -- do? people would say that was important to the campaign allowing the president to come to office. maybe the last democrat moving to the left but these could be told. some time to get some perspective as complete disasters 50

edgar hoover is on national television. the black panthers are a threat to the internal security of america, the black panthers are the only reason they have guns is to come into the white community and shoot and kill white people. and we are running up and down the streets and protesting with thousands of our white loving radical friends. i mean, this is the great counter intelligence program lie they propagated to stereotype us in the corner. when he did that in december, i called a retreat because my organization in the time martin luther king was killed, the day nixon was elected. before martin luther king was killed, there were 400 members up and down the coast. there were no chapters and branches. none. i'm telling you. he was killed and young black b brothers and sisters from all over this country flooded my organization. my organization jumped from 400 members to 5,000 members and 49 chapters and branches throughout the united states of america and i went to practically every last one of those chapters. i taught the

network in the us based on circumstantial evidence that turned out not to be correct but when j edgar hoover himself was convinced that inga was not a spy, president roosevelt directed him to continue with the observation of miss arvad. to have her phone, her apartment bond, or mail opened, it was a remarkable thing. >> you're the author of two other books, kennedy and reagan, why their legacies indoor and almost president: the man who lost the race but changed the nation. what do you think the legacy will be of president obama's administration and how do you think this past election cycle has affected the united states? >> his legacy will be turned over in the coming years. as our african-american president his legacy is secure in that regard. the most important thing he did is probably what we did following the great financial crisis of 2008, 2009. most americans are not aware how close we came to not having a great recession but a great depression and history will be kind to him on that. the other great accomplishment was probably obamacare and the question is is that a steppingstone to o

so unlike set eleanor roosevelt's fbi file, john edgar hoover heated eleanor roosevelt. and her and her fbi files which we got to the freedom of information act are unbelievable. he hates her personally and he calls her that old cow. he actually, the lines, the old cow is added again. and the old cow is meeting with the communists. now every integrationist, every civil rights leader like virginia jerk, all of the great, southern, white, integrationist were attacked by john edgar hoover and call communist, who else would be for integration except a communist and none of them were, virginia jerk, i mean police. >> host: so your hopeful. >> i'm hopeful that who the hell promoted this man to be fbi head, he was george bushes a pointman, what's he doing here and why is he doing it in why isn't he being removed instead of her, hillary clinton being hounded? it's really aggravating in my opinion. [applause] >> a question from upstairs about eleanor roosevelt as their microphone? were bringing your microphone. >> will blanche said to me 54 years ago what i hope hillary hillary w

edgar hoover. you know about that, been confirmed now. everybody was saying this is only, well, and he called him a black homosexual communist and he has to be followed. he was not a a communist. i think j. edgar hoover should have come out of the closet at that moment. [laughter] people like the rolling stones guitar it, bill wyman was a good friend of his and picture of him in the book. the book has 50 photos which trace his earliest days there carole, daniel and simone right up to the burial here in new york at st. john the divine, at the cathedral. i think, while taking distance from america, he retained a love-hate relationship. he always felt very american. he said i can't be an expatriate. that is only for white people because i have a lot of baggage with me with the family history and the heritage and don't forget, i was a grandson of a slave. so he always felt this, this double-sided relationship. and he finally became, as he called himself, he said i'm a small, ugly, gay black american as he liked to describe himself but he was

edgar hoover's fault . so it's easy to throw him under the bus these days. thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] >> on history bookshelf, here from the rest known american history writers of the past decade. and you can watch any of our programs at any time if you visit our website, www.c-span.org/history. american history tv, all weekend, it every weekend on c-span3. presidentrding became he appointed charles ford to a job he did extremely well as director of the bureau for insurance, which then became wrapped into the much bigger veterans bureau and he was raised up to become the director of the veterans bureau, which is now the the day will discusstevens ar book "a time of candle -- time of scandal." >> no one had look at the veterans bureau scandal and was a big scandal in the early 1920's. domeprefer to the teapot scandal in the early 1920's, the ofding administration, that the time, the v

edgar hoover's fault. so it's easy to throw him under the bus these days. thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] eastern, night at 8:00 this historic film, "the time recently restored by the national archives, and document the progress by proof -- by profiling -- >> as a judge, i feel i am making an impact, including my community. >> the registration, the voting, the participation of blacks in the voting process has brought about a new sense of hope and a new sense of optimism but it is also bring about a sense of economic parity. >> american history tv on c-span3. for the complete schedule, go to c-span.org. c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's television companies and is brought to you today by your cable and satellite providers. author mark riebling talked about pope pius the twelfth and the catholic church's secret actions against

. >> we do not want to go back to the days of j edgar hoover.ant an independent agency that is working on behalf of the interest of the american people. not their self interest or on behalf of solely the president of the united states. >> so january 27, whenever they come out with some kind of reconciliation language to repeal the affordable care act. what does that tell you about. [inaudible] >> i would just say you know i have a meeting with hospital administrators, clinic administrators, constituents who are very worried about losing coverage. if the affordable care act is repealed. insurance industry, it just creates a great degree of uncertainty and again it is irresponsible for the president or the republican in the house and senate to talk about repeal without having a viable replacement ready and waiting in the wings. what that does is, almost ensures that americans will be subject to illness, injury, potentially lack of coverage. that is not put in the best interest of the american people first. it is a grave issue. if you talk to those

edgar hoover. we want an independent agency working on behalf of the interests of the american people, not their self-interest or on behalf of solely the president of the united states. >> so the budget resolution said january 20 the temporary date when they would come out with some sort of reconciliation language to repeal the affordable care act. looks like they're going to blow right past that. what does that tell you about their ability to do this without causing chaos to the insurance market? ms. sanchez: i've been meeting with hospital administrators, clinic administrators, constituents who are worried about losing coverage if the affordable care act is repealed. insurance industry. it just creates a great degree of uncertainty and again i think it's irresponsible for the president or the republicans in the house and senate to talk about repeal without having a viable replacement ready and waiting in the wings. what that does is almost ensure that americans will be subject to illness, injury,

has, under j edgar hoover, declined.they may have had reasons at the time not good reasons, but , some good reasons, for not getting involved in the 1950's. all of a sudden in part because alvin points to an opinion written as the assistant attorney general by antonin scalia, interestingly enough, the federal government does have a legitimate interest in some of it these cases. so all of a sudden, leading to the federal government to go after the justice department, to go after these cold cases. and it leads to the body the , buried body of emmett till becomes a subject a day -- again. the exhumation becomes a subject again and a controversial one, , not just for the people of mississippi want to raise the issue again, but for the civil rights community whether you should exhume the body. >> even the till family was divided. there are others who said it needs to happen. verysse jackson's son publicly went with the site that did not want it. but ultimately it was. his body was exhumed, and the identity question was put to

every civil rights leader, all the great integrationists were attacked by john edgar hoover and called communists. who else would be forked by j integration, and of course nonen of them were. so i am hopeful but who promoted this man. he was the appointment. what's he doing here and why isn't he being removed it's really aggravating in my opinion. [applause] roo >> is there a microphone? we are bringing you a microphone.said >> 54 years ago she did what i hope larry will do to trump. blanche has nobody's running against her. even you have to run against h her. do you have to run a bad campaign on purpose? >> he ran for the president and i ran against blanche after my brother. i was not a happy camper. i was so glad you won. you couldn't know how loved and how active she was. she said it's very dangerous and that's the way you raised this.. you're right, you have to go. they thought that it was the right thing to do. it is the citizens for democratic society where we would have all of the colleges and the new york city colleg college.com as a group and support the candidates that we tho

edgar hoover, the agency began tapping king's telephone. "after much pressure by hoover the f-b-i was freed up to tap doctor king's home phone and car phone and office phone. he was determined to personally bring doctor king down." the f-b-i hoped to gather evidence that communists were infiltrating the civil rights movement to discredit king. but when no such evidence was found, it attempted to blackmail him, threatening to release potentially embarassing information. "they went so far as to, when he would stay in a place they would pay hotel maids money to check the sheets to see if there were any semen on the sheets. they would drop the stuff in the press." but doctor king refused to be intimidated and the following year, the movement reached a crowning achievement when federal lawmakers passed the civil rights act ending legal segregation. "we must not approach the observance and enforcement of this law in a vengeful spirit. its purpose is not to divide but to end divisions." in the winter of 1964, king became the youngest ever recipien

j edgar hoover said the civil rights statutes is not that strong and that they did not go across state lines. they had reasons to not pursue it and that is where you see the fork in the road, where alvan pursued the federal part. the rest is history. so, they paralleled each other. in the end, the tragedy is that somebody was truly an senselessly killed. that tragedy lasts. you see the difference between emmett till and the steve harvey case. justice change things -- changes things. it helps. >> there are a number of people and a federalization, if you will, of these cold cases. and theyad declined had good reasons. not good reasons, but reasons. in, whobecause a valve pointed to the opinion written as the assistant attorney theral by antonin scalia, federal government has a legitimate interest in some of these cases, leading to the ability of the federal government to go after the cold cases. to the buried body of emmett till becoming a subject one,, and a controversial not just for the people of mississippi, but for the civil rights community. emmett till family was divided. there ar

edgar hoover and the fbi, they settled on the smith act. now, truman could not have found a less sympathetic group of defendants at the time. i mean, you hear so much from that era where people who were erroneously believed to have, you know, communist sympathies or what not were unfairly targeted. these 11, they were just out and out communists, very proud and public leaders of the communist party, you know, they pretty much fit the stereotype that the average american had of a communist to a tee. one of the defendants was eugene dennis who was the lead defendant and the leader of the communist party usa, and, you know, he'd been charged with sedition multiple times, he'd gone into hiding, he had changed his name, he'd actually lived in the soviet union twice and traveled the world at the soviets' behest spreading communism in foreign countries. he and his wife actually had to leave their son in the country because the russian government says he only speaks russian, and he's going to seem too suspicious if you take him back to america. so

its founding director was jay edgar hoover.for the first 37 years that the fbi existed, they never had another director. they only relinquished the fbi when they pried it from his cold, dead hands. in our system of government, judges get lifetime tenure but he

edgar hoover intervened this much in an election. before we get the letter, we have chafe, et cetera, who is in oversight inside the house of representatives, previewing on his twitter feed there is explosive information. you have rudy giuliani going on tv previewing they have explosive information on hillary clinton. that series of events 11 days out of the election, nate silver has looked at the data -- it's hard for anyone including myself to imagine it wasn't absolutely decisive. hillary clinton loses by 77,000 votes. three days out comey comes out again and announces by the way there is really nothing on that laptop. why send the letter in the first place? comey's actions were unpreced t unprecedented. unusual what he did. >> we heard from jim comey from the fbi. we heard from him a knew days ago. this is part of his exchange with maine's senator angus king. let's take a listen. >> you didn't say one way or the other whether each there is an investigation underway. >> correct. i don't -- especially in a public forum we never con

edgar hoover. >> do you believe that james comey should resign, senator reid? >> of course, yes. he won't. he has a term there, and i'm sure he's going to keep the new administration -- they should like him. he helped them get elected. >> wow, welcome to "am joy." in a moment we're going to update you on donald trump's latest attack, this time on a civil rights icon, representative john lewis. but first, harry reid calling fbi director james comey to resign last month on this show. at the time senator reid alleged that the footbabi deliberately withheld information to help donald trump win. prohibiting partisan politicking when the fbi disclosed the anthony weiner related development in the hillary clinton e-mail probe 11 days before the election. now months later the justice department inspector general says that he will review the fbi's e-mail investigation, especially during those vital days leading up to november 8th. one of the allegations he'll focus on is the possibility that the d.o.j. and the fibi might have improperly disclosed information. on friday democratic members

everybody may not remember jay edgar hoover's reign. >> the very definition of politicization. >> inolitical system, you're going to have people trying to skew findings their way or to interpret them one way or another. let's be fair. let's not limit that to politics. that's human nature. all of us receive information that is consistent with our prior beliefs very well. we retain it. we use it often. but information that's inconsistent with our prior beliefs, we don't receive it well, we don't retain it, and we rarely use it. let's not be too tough on politicians and bureaucrats. that's true of human nature everywhere. always has been. >> looking back, a lot of the agen agencies, the impression i used to have of the irs is not what it was. the impression i used to have of the justice department in recent years isn't what -- i'm getting a lot of comments come in. this is the same cia that lied about benghazi. that a lot of the agencies have been corrupted or at least compromised in recent years. depending on which side you're on. then i've got another -- other people talking about rus

i remind you of sja edgar hoover, head of the intelligence agency. and fdr.itain. there was a lot of tension, famously. —— written. it is not what you want to start out on. but as donald trump was saying in his press conference, he was wondering where the leaks we re he was wondering where the leaks were coming from. he started scheduling some of them and telling them in his office to see if he could discover if they would be lea ked could discover if they would be leaked and then details of the meeting would be leaked. he said publicly he thinks it would be the intelligence agencies. do you think it will be a good president?” intelligence agencies. do you think it will be a good president? i think so. it will be a good president? i think so. he has many people rooting for him, including the democratic leadership. barack 0bama and even hillary clinton have said they are hoping he becomes a very strong leader and he does what is that of the nation. that is what we are rooting for and will work towards making that happen. coming up this morning on breakfast: wo

edgar hoover would have done something like that? and we worried about that, andoning outright rejected the bulk collection of america's records when it passed the u.s.a. freedom act of 2015. republicans and democrats across the political spectrum joined together, and we did this with a overwhelming bipartisan basis. we rejected the very program overwhelmingly that congressman poomple says he wants to bring back. during his testimony last week, congressman pompeo refused to answer questions about his more alarming positions by revealing the participation of the supremacy of law. well, madam president, i have been here long enough to hear a lot of tried and true confirmation conversions. this cowndz like one. i appreciate he testifying that he understands the responsibility of a director to uphold the constitution and laws passed by congress. what else is he going to say? but i remain deeply concerned that he's advocated for such dangerous measures in the first place, measures that we have overwhelmingly, republicans and democrats hav

edgar hoover's prime suspect." who was inge? >> guest: she was miss denmark in 1931 but she was much, much more than that. she was an actress, alabama, a concert pianist, concert pianist, an anthropologist, explore. and washington columnist, a screenwriter for mgm and editor at "harper's bazaar" but mostly she was a great love of john f. kennedy his life and they desperately wanted to marry. it was not a fling. i was a romance but there were two problems. she was a suspected nazi spy and still married to her husband. >> host: deeply that is accurate of her being a suspected nazi spy? >> guest: there's a 1200 page fbi file and i would say ultimately it was concluded she was not a spy. interestingly for several much is considered the prime suspect, like the key to the entire nazi spy espionage and use all based on circumstantial evidence. interestingly when j. edgar hoover himself was convinced she was not a spy, president roosevelt personally intervene and directed him to continue the observation and continue to be however unders

edgar hoover himself was convinced inga was not a spy, president roosevelt personally intervened and directed him to continue the observation and continue to be, have her phone tapped, her apartment bug, her mail open. it was a remarkable thing. >> you are the author of two other books, kennedy and reagan, and almost president. what do you think the legacy will be of president obama administration and how do you think this past election cycle has affected the united states? >> president obama is legacy will be determined over the coming years. as a first african-american present his legacy is pretty secure in that regard as the historical figure. probably the most important thing he did was what he did following the great financial crisis of 2008-2009. most americans are probably not aware how close we came to not having a great recession but a great depression. history will be kind to him on that. the other great accomplishment was probably obamacare and the question is is that a stepping stone to other health care reform that will view as a pivotal moment building upon medicare and