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hoover ran the f.b.i.ll. >> reporter: it is fitting to begin here in the heart of washington d.c. where j. edgar hoover lies at rest. >> he was a local kid, grew up on capitol hill just a few blocks away. this is his family's plot. >> reporter: for rebecca roberts of congressional cemetery, she says it's the former f.b.i. agent who built the fence and the bench creating a memorial that draws new recruits. >> every now and then young men with dark suits and little wires coming out of their ears come through the front gate of the cemetery and they're coming to pay their respects to the director. >> reporter: the director. >> no peace ever ends for the federal bureau of investigation until it is solved and closed with the conviction of the guilty or the acquittal of the innocent. >> reporter: over an astonishing 48 years starting in 1924, j. edgar hoover became one of the most powerful men in american history. a man who collected secrets and knew how to use them. >> g-men must be lawyers or graduate accountan

edgar hoover.p reid goes kayaking with some wounded veterans. steve hartman has a tale of friends to the end. and more. but first the headlines for this sunday morning the 13th of november, 2011. eight republican presidential hopefuls took the stage in spartan burg south carolina last night for a foreign policy debate. sponsored by cbs news and the national journal. jan crawford has some highlights. >> reporter: the issues-- afghanistan, pakistan, iran-- were complex. the answers serious. on iran, former massachusetts governor mitt romney would consider military action. >> we will not allow iran to have a nuclear weapon snrment former house speaker newt gingrich agreed. >> you have to take whatever steps are necessary to break its capacity to have a nuclear weapon. >> reporter: there were sharp differences with president obama. minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann. >> if i were president, i would be willing to use water boarding. i think it was very effective. it gained information for our coun

she's margaret hoover. this is overheard. >> margaret hoover, welcome.ú >> thank you for having me. >> nice to see you. >> wonderful to be here. >> i want to ask you about the subtitle of your book. ferfirst of all, it assumes that the republican party needs this is not a view that a lot of republicans share, but you believe this is the case. >> the subtitle is now a new generation of conservatives can save the republican party. and of course republicans don'tt3 think we need to be saved from anything. and of course, right now we're coming out of of some pretty interesting victories in washington in terms of having 87 new members of the house of representatives have helped change and steer the course of the dialogue and the discourse of policy making in washington from just raising the debt limit over and over again to actually reigning in spending. so that is a significant win for republicans. but i'm not talking aboutt3 what's going on in washington right now. i'm talking about the next generation. this b

and i said, the hoover tradition -- and this is what hoover believed deeply and this is what i believeu owt not to join had one or two or three other careers because the idea of public service is not a profession. you offer your sefses to thee3 american people when you have a set of skills that you can offer. and i believe that you go out and get experience and build a nest negative and have a family and for me, i think maybe when i'm 50, 60 and done something else that's quite meaningful andd3 worthwhile in my life and i actually have wisdom and perspective, then i would be open to sort of, wow, is this something i want to do now. do i want to offer my services? and i do aspire -- iiwish more americans aspired to public service. it's become such a nasty business. >> we innthe world contribute to that by that go into public office and make it the most unpleasant experience in the world for them. >> that's true, but this is the first amendment, this is the free press, but of course it should be more civil. >> it should be. >> and it should be more respectful. and you know, so i can't sa

edgar hoover, what did you think of him? >> everybody thought of him as the top cop. >> reporter: did you admire him? >> i think so. >> reporter: but hoover had his ownn secrets. many historians believe hoover was a gay man in an era when that was unthinkable for a public figure. he never married and had a lifelong remarkably close relationship with fbi associate director clyde tolson. they ate lunch and dinners together and are buried within a few feet of each other. >> mr. tolson, i need someone who i can trust. i want you to be my number two man. you understand, i need you. >> reporter: i went in thinking this was a movie about power and it felt to me it was almost a movie about love. >> it's a love story between two men in a way, but it's -- i didn't want to make it -- i dance want to diminish by making it some sort of sexual attraction or something like that. it had to be more -- much more substance to it than that. >> i think the way clint handled it in this movie was very tastefully done because what it did reflect wa

edgar hoover. leonardo dicaprio plays hoover in the film which hits theatres today. >> they talk spies, sex and surveillance. >> from his twisted relationship with his overbearing mother played by judy dench. >> thank you,. more. >> to his awkward attempt at a romance -- >> i know we've only known each other a brief time. >> leonardo dicaprio plays everything he's got to play j. edgar hoover, the iron fist at the fbi for 50 years who may or may not have been gay. hoover's personal secrets and hunger for power led him to create secret files on everyone from the president to martin luther king. hard to believe but this intense biospey pic was shot in 40 days. >> i enjoyed the pace in which we work because it really keeps you on your toes and clint's philosophy is trust your own instincts. >> at 81, clint eastwood doesn't waste time. >> i've played golf enough to know i'm going to have my limitations on it. i would rather continue on. >> eastwood's name was enough to convince army hammer to take the r

edgar hoover and as we look behind the headlines today, we found that in hoover's case, truth is strangerhan fiction. j. edgar hoover was the first director of the fbi. the powerful job he held 48 years, until his death in 1972. this exhibit is on display at the museum on oloan from the fbi where it was part of the capital's most popular tour until the terror attacks of 9/11 closed the fbi headquarters to the public. the building is named after its first director, j. edgar hoover. >> the fbi office contacted us three years ago on the 100th anniversary of the fbi that they would like to share with us amazing, what they call evidence and we call artifacts of their history. we are doing this exhibit to show how the news media and the fbi sometimes work at odds and sometimes work together to get the job done. >> reporter: j. edgar hoover's war against gangsters and crime made national news headlines, but many may not realize that hoover lived his whole life here in washington, d.c. hoover was born near the u.s. capital. assen adult he lived here on 30th place in upper northwest. one of his ne

edgar hoover was gay.ng report that, but hoover became obsessed with nelson scrawling that nelson is a mental case, rat and jackal and necessary son is nelson is a lice-covered ferret. according to the

hoover, stand up. can you keep a secret?>> yes, of course. >> i'm not interested in getting married. my work comes first. >> jon: and i always wear this hat. please welcome back to the program, clint eastwood. ( cheers and applause ) >> thank you very much. >> thank you.Ñi >> jon: that's all the time we have. there you go. >> that was a regular npr wecome. >> jon: very enthusiastic. it's just interesting. i've been here 12 years. i've just never seen such a warm... it was nice to see them capable of such love and gratitude. >> they are very sensitive. i can tell that. >> jon: they really are. i'm going to tell you my favorite moment of this movie. not giving away tremendous... but it's a detail that i love. hoover is in bobby kennedy's office, and he's talking about how he got a tape of j.f.k. in a delicate situation with a woman. but he's really interested in robert kennedy's fireplace. do you remember the scene? >> yeah. >> jon: later on in the movie he's informing robert kennedy of the assassination standing in front of t

edgar hoover. why an >>> metro workers took a rather unusual step, shutting down an escalator at a busy station that wasn't broken. they did it to find one woman's lost treasure. shomari stone has more. >> i was devastated. >> reporter: she was disappointed when she glanced down. something missing from her hand. >> my finger is rubbing and waiting. >> reporter: the diamond and sapphire ring that looks like this, valued at $12,000 is under the escalator. she dropped it this past weekend. >> i took off my left glove, like this. i didn't hear anything, my mom turned around, said you dropped something. i heard ping, ping. we both got close like this, seeing what it was. we saw the last piece of white gold as it went down there. >> reporter: she's worn the ring for 15 years. it was passed down in her family since the early 1900s. >> i sat on the bench hysterically crying. i wanted them to do something about it. >> as you can see, crews are searching. they haven't found your ring. what are you going to d

edgar hoover was gay. he was going to report that, but hoover became obsessed with nelson, scrawling on memos about him, quote, nelson is a mental case, nelson is a rat, nelson is a jackal, and nelson, yes, is a lice covered ferret. a lice covered ferret. incidentally, while we are debunking this here, ferrets do not get lice. according to the american ferret association, ferrets can get external parasites like fleas, ticks and mites. ferrets do not get lice, j. edgar. thank you to the america

edgar hoover.r thought of himself as the fbi director for life, leading his g. men against a crime wave, capturing private enemy number one. hoover kept dillonjure's mask in his office. this exhibit is on display at the museum online from the fbi where it was part of the most popular tour until the terror attacks of 9/11 closed the j. edgar hoover fbi building to the public. now the museum features this larger than life law man, whose real height may surprise the public. >> i am 5'4". >> j. edgar hoover is -- >> looks like 5'6". a small man with a large legacy. you can't about the fbi without talking about j. edgar hoover. he took a small federal agency and made it what it is today. >> reporter: hoover was nationally known but what many may not realize is that he was a local boy, born and raised near the capital in the eastern market neighborhood. as an adult he lived here on 30th place in upper northwest. he was a creature of habit. he ate lunch at the mayflower hotel almost every day for 20 years

it's about j., edgar hoover. hoover actually grew up here in washington. here is chris gordon with a look at the man behind the headlines. >> reporter: he thought of himself as the fbi director for life, capturing public enemy number one, bank robber dillinger. he kept the death mask in the office. this exhibit is on display at the museum. it was part of the most popular tour until the terror attacks of 9/11. now the museum features a larger than life lawman whose real height may -- >> i'm 5'4". a small man with a large legacy. he was the person who took a small federal agency and made it what it is today. >> reporter: hoover was nationally known. what many may not realize is he was born and raised near the capital in the eastern market neighborhood. he lived here on 30th place in upper northwest. he was a creature of habit. he ate lunch at the hotel for 22 years. he was buried at the hoover family plot in southwest washington. an fbi special agent designed and built the iron fence around the grave sight. >> we'll see young men and woman with coils in thei

edgar hoover was gay.ing to report that, but hoover became obsessed with nelson, scrawling on memos about him, quote, nelson is a mental case, nelson is a rat, nelson is a jackal, and nelson, yes, is a lice covered ferret. a lice covered ferret. incidentally, while we are

he directed a new film about hoover with leonardo dicaprio in the title role.dra hughes sat down with the two stars. >> reporter: from his twisted relationship with his overbearing mother played by judi dench to his awkward attempt at romance with naomi watts' character, leonardo dicaprio uses everything he's got to play j. edgar hoover, the iron fist at the fbi for 50 years, who may or may not have been gay. >> you pulled away from me. >> reporter: hoover's personal secrets and hunger for power led him to create secret files on everyone from the president to martin luther king. hard to believe, but this intense biopic was shot in just 45 days. >> i actually enjoyed the pace in which we worked because it really keeps you on your toes. and, you know, clint's philosophy is trust your own instincts. >> reporter: at 81 clint eastwood doesn't waste time. >> i've played golf just enough to know that i'm going to have my limitations on it, so i'm just -- i would rather continue on. >> reporter: eastwood's name was enough to convince army hammer to take the role of cly

hoover. >> boy.ot at all. >> who didn't show him with the kennedys, with the roosevelt, with nixon? he really tried to use the secrets he collected to hold power over presidents. >> he had files on lot of people. and there was great curiosity about these files. in fact, even a after he passed away, the congressional committees were interrogating helen gandy to find out what happened. >> his long-time secretary. >> right. his long-time secretary. and why she had destroyed the files and nobody ever will know. he was a man of mystery. >> a man obsessed with secrecy. if you look at the film, it's almost a story of interlocking love stories. >> it's absolutely beautiful, mother. >> with his mother. with helen gandy, the secretary of 40 years. with hoover, with clyde tolson's assistant. and he had a few relationships that lasted his whole life. >> he probably didn't trust a lot of people. but those people, he did have a way of instilling loyalty in people. and tolson became his inseparable pal. >> i know y

edgar hoover. we're standing by waiting for the start, clint eastwood himself is here in just a short time. we're going to see him with our fox 5 movie reviewer who spoke with leo last week. that is all coming up. >>> and an open mic embarrassment for president obama. the reporters say they overheard them talking bad about israel's prime minister during a convery session with the president of france. nicolas sarkozy said i can't stand him, he's a liar and the president replied you're sick of him but i have to work with him every day. now they're keeping quiet. they have no comment. border patrol border patrol ap r >> okays -- looks like marion barry is trying to find an heir to the throne. barry may not finish his third term if re-elected and would endorse his son christopher for the open seat. chris barry has had his own troubles with the law, he served as his father's campaign treasurer since during the 2008 elect. >>> it's one of the -- election. >>> it's one of the most anticipated movies this

edgar hoover. >> you played some pretty intense characters through out your career. do characteristics of the people ever stay with you? do they ever pop up? >> if there ever was one, it would be howard hughes. i louised to do slight obsessive things when i was little, stepping on cracks on the way back home from school and i had to start bringing all that stuff out for the character and that lingered with me. most of the time, if i'm not able to go home and be myself and when the film is wrapped feel like a free man, i wouldn't be doing my job. i try to embody the character as best i can and leave it all on the table, so to speak. whatever you have to portray about that character should be burned into celluloid. >> a man's legacy is often what is not seen. i think it is an amazing thing to think about. do you feel that is the same for your business. in acting, do you think it is what is not seen on camera that makes you who you are.

edgar hoover, who ran the fbi. it explores his public and private life. eastwood said he's always been fascinated with the nation's first fbi director. >> he's still a mystery man. a lot of things have been written about him, but he's still -- i don't know if anybody really knew him. >> "j. edgar" opens in theaters nationwide on friday and limited release today, i think, in some places. so worth seeing. >>> it is now 4:56. coming up on "news 4 today," today is the day you can give to the max and help those in need. verizon 4g lte.

edgar focuses in part on hoover's incident mat relationship with his assistant. were they more than just friends. >> he started looking at how he grew up, the home he grew up in and the mother that raised him. you find that there was a bit of homophobia. >> his relationships were very important because those relationships sort of have a statement about loyalty. >> reporter: the d.c. premiere, a hot ticket. chief kathy lanier. >> i haven't been to the movies in so long, i just can't remember. >> reporter: senator christopher dodd, his father worked as and fbi agent under hoover in the 1930s. the senator and eastwood met on the red carpet. >> i think washington is always interested in historical figures and certainly j. edgar hoover qualifies on that basis. >> reporter: will thomas, fox 5 news. >> the star of the movie leonardo dicaprio, sat down with kevin mccarthy to talk about the challenges of playing the famed fbi director. we'll have that coming up in our next hour, about 55 minutes from now. fox 5 morning news at 4:30 starts now. >>> it is 4:30 on this wedne

but at the same time, he -- with hoover, hoover where he was brought out was in the palmer raids which happened in november. but actually palmer went before congress in june of 1919 and asked for powers to begin to throw out all these radicals. >> well, that's an important point regarding hoover and regarding palmer. so alexander -- a. mitchell palmer was the attorney general at the time. and one important point is he assigns hoover this special mission, and they draft a report that's releelsed to congress in the -- released to congress in the fall of that year. and it has this huge, long rabbit -- rant about the anarchists. we've got to get rid of these people, look at the crazy stuff they're writing. and that's, base chi, the majority of the document. and then there's this huge part at the end, sudden ply they start talking about look at these radical black basketballly cases and their writings. if you look at the quotes they listed, by every stretch of the imagination today they would be considered benign, you know? thing it is like you should shoot back if you're being shot at. tha

edgar hoover, it is a weird story. a wonderful acting. coming up, i have some great movies that will be telling you about. later on we will talk about winter fast. >>ysabel: here is a quick look outside. the approach to the bay bridge, not too much traffic. the cloud cover is lifting. let's check in with janu a roster. >>janu: we're certainly seeing some clouds lifted. this system that brought us rain yesterday has pushed south, out of our area. it looks like we will stay dry today. we are dealing with a lot of cloud cover. we are starting to see some breaks in sunshine. over the next couple of hours, a lot more clearing and a lot of sunshine as we head into the afternoon. we will stay clear throughout the day. right now, take a jacket believe the house. everyone in the '50s. the kron47 day around the bay is showing us we will finish the weekend with a dry conditions. >>ysabel: we're going to check back in with henry. >>henry: remember the woman who burned herself with coffee and ended up suing mcdonald's? it is a joke, but the joke is on

. >> leonardo dicaprio is j edgar hoover.tough, and obsessed. >> look for justice and what you get is a political attack. you expect crimes to go unresolved? why are you fighting me. >> it wreaks of period details. as it meanders along time we see j edgar hoover that wants the publicity in big cases. and there's the strange relationship with his domineering mother, and maybe she's what drove him? >> i want you to be my number two man. do you understand? i need you. >> there's speculation about romance. hoover was clever and vicious. he tells kennedy he has tape of president kennedy with a prostitute. he's pictured as using questionable methods of getting what he wanted. >> sometimes you need to bend the rules a little in order to keep your country safe. >> dicaprio plays the rule with one dimension and yet it's the kind of performance that gets award nominations. when we saw the old j edgar hoover there were a few laughs. and the makeup makes him look like the doctor from beverly hills housewives got carried away with everyth

hoover was clever and vicious. kennedy he has tape of president kennedy with a prostitute. he speed on the civil rights mover meant. he's pictured as using questionable methods of getting what he wanted. >> is it legal? >> sometimes you need to bend the rules a little in order to keep your country safe. >> dicaprio plays the role with one dimension and yet it's the kind of performance that gets award nominations. when we see him the first time as the old j. edgar hoover, there were a few laughs. and the makeup makes him look like the doctor from "beverly hills housewives" got carried away with everything in his satchel. he can't move. then there's the issue of sexuality. and yes, they hold hands and kiss. >> when they go into his mother's closet we could change the title of the film to "j. edna." it is a modest film clint eastwood has made but i'll give it three quarters of a bucket. see you on the isle. >> i'm going to see it, i hope. >> it got me interested. >> and here's lisa with the last look at the interestin

this is aren't program year, and we are delighted to be working with herbert hoover middle school. what we are doing is providing a $10,000 grants for the continuity of our program should the current funding run out and also cultural programs for the children through the community interior -- through the community. we were pleased to put on our first event for the school. i am just about to blank on his name. our wonderful instructor as well all volunteered to instruct the students in oregon may -- in origami. we are delighted to be joined by superintended garcia and they also gave encouragement to the kids. i just wanted to let you know about this program. this year we will be providing smaller financial support to the japanese immersion programs and rosa parks and clarendon, and we will be continuing our fund raising in the coming years to expand into other schools going forward, so i want to thank you all for the opportunity to talk about this. foreign-language training is so important. we think that is an important thing we can do. thank you very much. >> any questions from the

edgar hoover.hetic characteristic. >> expect crimes to go unsolved. why is he fighting me? the film wreaks of period detail. we see hoover as an ego maniacking who wants all of the publicity in big cases and a strange relationship with his dominating mother. maybe she is what drove him to tolleson. >> i want you to be my number two man. do you understand i need you? >> hoover was clever and vicious. here he tells bobby kennedy he has tape of president kennedy with a a prostitute. he spied on the civil rights movement. pictured as using questionable measures to get what he want. >> sometimes you need to bend the rules a little in order to keep your country safe. >> reporter: dicaprio plays the role with one dimension and yet it is the kind of performance that gets award nominations. when we see him the first time as the old j. edgar hoover we get a few laughs. the makeup makes him look like the doctor from beverly hill's house wife got carried awhich with everything in his satchel. he can't move. an

>> there's a scientlitical para >> could you build hoover dam now? no.- >> this is what friedman says in his book. "our biggest problem is not that we're failing to keep up with china's best practices. but that we've strayed so far from our own best practices. america's future depends not on our adapting features of the chinese system, note that pat, but on making our lone democratic system work with the kind of focus, moral authority, seriousness, collective action, and stick to itness that china has managed to generated by authoritarian means for the last several decades. >> the point you just made. >> we don't agree, john. this is the problem. the americans no longer agree on what we ought to do. >> that's right. >> >> it's not about solutions, it's about power. and the republicans have been very successful at creating political dysfunction at and blaming president obama for not being able to fix it. >> >> it's what is right with the country. >> what is the answer, judging from where he comes from, on the -- ladder, right? >> fortunately it's not the

edgar hoover. how was wallace monitored and did he have an opinion of hoover? >> about his relationship with j. edgar hoover and whether or not he was monitored? >> not really. not in the sense that subversives work. -- that subversives were. governor wallace constantly praised mr. hoover and relied upon him, particularly for information about the so-called links between civil rights activists and communists. hoover was always leery of wallace. in part because i do not think he could control him. as a result, hoover always told his men to keep a hands-off. as a result, there was a distant relationship between the two of them. >> dan carter is the author of this book. look at the picture on the cover of the book. that is from the inaugural address of 1963. the state capital, two miles from where we are right now. randall in stockton, calif., how're you doing? >> as the son of a civil rights leader who came across in 1963, i want to know why he was allowed -- why he would not let the rest of his counterparts, cross the bridge? and when they did, there was nationa

some head off to the hoover market up the street. some buy grub. some smoke bud. day after day, it was a party in the parking lot. out in the open within sight of the factory. the factory where they make parts for armored vehicles for our soldiers and marines. these guys got their own arsenal. they are smoking blunts. a blunt is a big joint made out of a little cigar you can buy inside the store. the guys dump out the tobacco and fill it with their own special blend. it's a lot easier than rolling a joint as this tower defense worker demonstrates. their job posting say tower defense and aerospace in detroit promotes and drug and alcohol-free workplace. i can understand why. besides making parts for planes and military vehicles, working with heavy machinery is dangerous. this guy drives a high low in the plant. >> that is you though, right? >> that's me. >> you aren't supposed to be drinking on your lunch break, are you? >> i'm not drinking, i'm eating. >> but you were. >> no, this is during lunch break. i have seen you down there. >> then there's this guy coming b

here now to sort it all out for us the culture warriors margaret hoover and gresham carlson.pers, carlson, diapers? >> let's put it in progressive. this is part of the child care development block grant of 1990, $5 billion to 50 states so far in 2011. 2 billion more in funds in 2009. this diaper thing will not be any additional money. that's how much money we are already giving to the states. then they decide how they want to spend it. >> bill: but this guy blumenthal, he wants written into the block grant that they can spend the money on diapers, hoover, correct? >> that is correct. >> bill: why? >> the child care development block grant act is empowering low income people. >> bill: empowering? >> gives the ability for low income people to then spend some of their medicaid dollars on child care needs, including diapers. >> bill: why can't they do that now? >> here is what i would be concerned at as a conservative. i actually like the block grant system. i would prefer to see more block grants is because what it says then states get to choose how their federal dollars are bei