j edgar hoover is the civil libertarian there. there is a moment where nixon sits down with hoover and says, edgar, you are in your mid-70's wouldn't it be fun to go? and it nixon says, ok and kind of gives in to hoover. who is more powerful the fbi director or the president? >> the fbi headquarters is the j edgar hoover building still today. what was his reputation among agents? >> i think the agents really respected hoover. he built the institution in his own image. really in the early years especially, hand selected agents that represented him and his views, a very particular image. when we think of an fbi agent or a g-man, there are very specific ideas about who that is. will it be a tall white guy in a suit with a hat and shiny shoes and a certain set of political views. during his lifetime, i do not think agents loved him. he was a hard boss to work for. they had a lot of respect for him. right now my sense is the fbi has an ambivalent relationship with hoover. on one hand he did build the institution. on the other hand i thi

as i mentioned earlier, he was blacklisted by j edgar hoover.he could not have any connection with stevenson through that channel. but then he did manage to get himself into the army. general smith the director of the cia in the war had the responsibility trying to deal with war criminals. he put them in charge of an office to track down and he did a great job. he applied computer technology to tracing down the suspects. that was a job he did in paris. so he had no connection with stevenson and that, he did good work in the war in spite of the efforts. >> that was true in paris? >> guest: yes. one of the questions was what did he do in paris? so after he was? sue to first of all there is the war, he looks -- networks for the army the united nations for agency which help track down not the war criminals. when he finished he became security guy, the billionaire who lived in france. he did a little bit of work a happy retirement. especially amongst american muslim veterans who lived in paris. the dismissal with prejudice in the 1960s, hoover finall

j edgar hoover is the civil libertarian there. there is a moment where nixon sits down with hoover and says, edgar, you are in your mid-70's wouldn't it be fun to go? and it nixon says, ok and kind of gives in to hoover. who is more powerful the fbi director or the president? >> the fbi headquarters is the j edgar hoover building still today. what was his reputation among agents? >> i think the agents really respected hoover. he built the institution in his own image. really in the early years especially, hand selected agents that represented him and his views, a very particular image. when we think of an fbi agent or a g-man, there are very specific ideas about who that is. will it be a tall white guy in a suit with a hat and shiny shoes and a certain set of political views. during his lifetime, i do not think agents loved him. he was a hard boss to work for. they had a lot of respect for him. right now my sense is the fbi has an ambivalent relationship with hoover. on one hand he did build the institution. on the other hand i thi

unlike many of my panelists -- my fellow panelists, i did not come to writing about j edgar hoover because i admired him so much, but because i wanted to redeem him in some way, but i was fascinated by hoover from the moment i started working on that book to the very end, and it's a book that i worked on for more than a decade, and there are a couple things that fascinated me about him. first was the sheer longevity of his career. it was a span of 48 years that he was head of this giant institution that became known as the fbi and that he built, so like many of my fellow panelists, i was interested in hoover as an individual and he is an interesting individual. the book is a large part a political biography but does get into some of the fascinating questions about his personal life, about his sexuality, about his relationships, but he was a figure who, during that amazing span of time, really had his fingers in almost everything that happened and many of the things that i care about as a historian, so the book tries to get away from what i think has become a caricature of hoover as a one-d

j. edgar hoover. so pauling in becoming this outspoken anti anti-communist, someone who was saying anti communism has gone crazy. you are undermining american science and american education by attack on these educators. when he said this j. edgar hoover became convinced that that pauling must be a communist. he must be doing the soviets bidding if he was insisting that the red scare in education was wrong or going too far far. hoover was particularly upset when he learned that pauling at first refused to to say anything about whether he had ever in the communist party, because he said, well, that's just pauling said, that's playing into their hands. so i'm just not even going to answer that question. eventually, caltech forced him to answer the question and he said truthfully that he had never been a communist. right. but hoover is convinced that's lie. and so what started to do was, first of all, he launched a major investigation. the angeles fbi office started interviewing everyone from pauling's pa

viewer collins with john j edgar hoover, and los angeles times executive editor kevin meredith. and our coverage continues with authors mark full men and -- and talkshow host dennis prager will take your calls live on the air. watch the los angeles times festival of books alive this weekend at 1:30 eastern on book tv, and on c-span two, to see the full schedule visit our website, book tv.org. >> the very first president to attend the white house correspondence dinner was calvin coolidge in 1924, i had been elected to the united states senate. >> washington's black-tie event, is saturday, at 8:00 eastern. this year's headliner is the daily shows roy wood junior. and president joe biden is expected to attend. watch on c-span, c-span now are free mobile video app or online at c-span.org. next week, on the c-span networks, the house and the senate are both in. the house will go on the debt increase bill. in the senate will vote on -- will hear the effects of medical cannabis for veterans. a senate pro -- a senate appropriations subcommittee will hear the budget for the white house c

j. edgar hoover and executive times director kevin meredith. on kund it cons. watch "the los angeles times" fest very of books live this weekend at 1:30 eastern on book tv on c-span2. to see the full schedule visit our website booktv.org. pres. biden: very first president to attend a chows correspondents' din we are us calvin coolidge in 1924. i had just been elected to the senate. >> the white house correspondent's dinner, washington's premier black tie event is saturday. watch c-span's live coverage from the washington hilton hotel including red carpet arrivals of journalists, politician and celebrities this year's headliner is the "daily show's" roy wood very. president biden is expected to speak. the white house correspondents' dinner, live, saturday april 29, live on c-span, c-span now, our free meebl video app, or online at c-span.org. >> next a hearing on federal food assistance in the upcoming farl bill before the senate agriculture subcommittee on food and nutrition. it was chaired by senator john fetterman. his first time chairing a subcommittee after

j. edgar hoover what he did to martin luther king isn't a front. it's still the j. fbi that people walk down the street in washington, d.c., and i personally believe that people who run the executive branch of the government when you have a bureaucracy whose culture bes some sos on phied every once in a while you need to turn it over and yes, you need law enforcement and that institution has become so ossified in its corruption that we need to build it from scratch. >> so you will replace the fbi with a new fbi? >> a new institution to carry out the federal law enforcement because the existing fbi and the people who worked there have worked there are if so long that they'll be getting in their own way is important. >> it does sound like you're just replacing the fbi with the fbi. >> the problem is there are people who worked there for decades and if i'm the u.s. president and i can't work for the government for more than eight years which is a good thing then none the bureaucrats should either pf vivek ramaswamy, we'll be following it. good to share your views with

unlike many of my panelists -- my fellow panelists, i did not come to writing about j edgar hoover because i admired him so much, but because i wanted to redeem him in some way, but i was fascinated by hoover from the moment i started working on that book to the very end, and it's a book that i worked on for more than a decade, and there are a couple things that fascinated me about him. first was the sheer longevity of his career. it was a span of 48 years that he was head of this giant institution that became known as the fbi and that he built, so like many of my fellow panelists, i was interested in hoover as an individual and he is an interesting individual. the book is a large part a political biography but does get into some of the fascinating questions about his personal life, about his sexuality, about his relationships, but he was a figure who, during that amazing span of time, really had his fingers in almost everything that happened and many of the things that i care about as a historian, so the book tries to get away from what i think has become a caricature of hoover as a one-d

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j. edgar hoover. the full schedule of events will be on your program guide or at booktv.org.in us on saturday and sunday, april 22nd and 23rd, for the los angeles times festival of books right here on booktv. finish. >> the publisher of climate depot.com argued that the science of on climate change is not settled and legislation like the green new deal will do more harm than good. his book is "green fraud." here's a portion of his interview at freedom fest. >> author mark moran know, in your book green fraud, you write that the green new deal is an all-income a passing -- income a passing transformation of society. what do you mean by that? >> guest: well, in the book i lay out hat vision of the between new deal is not chiefly about climate or energy policy. what heir trying to do is remake society, quite literally every aspect of society. and that would include everything from health care, housing, racial justice, identity politics on down to our energy structures, our climate, our transportation, your home heating, your ability to travel. the entire spectrum of human rights

j. edgar hoover. nalism at san francisco state university and the author of the burglary: the discovery of j. edgar hoover's secret fbi. betty medsger. [applause] betty medsger: i'm honored and humbled to be part of this panel that seeks justice for julian assange, sorely needed. i'm here with a case study, something that i think shows very clearly the great importance of protecting whistleblowers and the necessity of a free press. and it is the story of the people -- the impact of the people who burglarized an fbi office in 1971 and then stole every file in the office and made them public. i've worked with them twice -- when i didn't know them, and they sent files to me, back in 1971, and then when i worked on the book, when they revealed their identity, even though the fbi had at that time the largest search that they had ever had and didn't find the burglars. they came out in 2014. these eight people were outside whistleblowers. they were average citizens, though they did extraordinary things. in fa

j. edgar hoover. and as the war is coming towards everyone, there is a general assumption that the war, europe is going to end in 45. and there's a there's a fear that the war in the pacific go on, uh, until, uh, much longer. people don't know about the atomic bomb. uh, there was a saying out in the pacific, uh, the, we'll see the golden gate in 48. can you imagine. so anyway, but as the war in europe is coming to a close, there is this the people are jockeying. these three camps are jockeying for position and saying, you know, we need to continue our activities after the war. and donovan says you need a central intelligence agency. uh, the codebreakers say we army and navy and brits need to collaborate and then hoover says, don't worry, folks, i can do it all. so there's a there's a bit of a struggle in washington. and and there's a there's a sincere effort on the part of more the truman administration, the roosevelt administration, uh, to sort this out and to do is start america intelligence off on

back in the beginning days j edgar hoover took over the idea of the government records would be available to the public was not something people tended to think about. government records got boxed up, put in a warehouse somewhere eventually were thrown out and they were not need to put some end up in libraries of congress. but as we heard earlier today does not show the 19 national archives. even when we did the fbi said basically no, our records are our records and they're not going through national archives. for the most part that's exactly what happened. i free of the pre-hoover area it records did go over eventually as microphone and we have been able to access for a good long time. but, overall fbi investigative files to be considered closed to the public. now, that said a lot of what the fbi does comes out of the public. when you are investigating a crime or when you are investigating a national security threat that touches on our national security laws, again in other crime, it ends up in court and the court produces a public record. so bits and pieces of the fbi records ended up i

she was a correspondent -- not j edgar hoover -- not -- it is still early in the day. herbert hoover. a friend of j howard q, the president of sun oil and one of the key figures in our story. she's known to libertarians -- people who admire her call her one of the three furies along with sign rand and isabel patterson, three of the key libertarian thinkers in the mid century. but what is not as well-known about her is she was also the ghostwriter for her mother, laura ingalls wilder. the little house on the prairie series, the books, the television show many of us watched growing up were marketed as the true life stories of laura ingalls wilder as a young girl growing up on the american frontier whose families succeeded by dint of hard work, the strength of the nuclear family and, most importantly, with no help from the government . but the reality was, laura ingalls wilder did not write this books. her libertarian daughter did. and they were not true stories. laura made rough notes for the story but her daughter re-crafted them into libertarian parables. and they were

j. edgar hoover like this jerk attorney general has help from christopher ray right now.ndred years ago. we have a main white house who is corrupt. we have a man in 4-7b white house who's manchuri arce n president, he's put main into the penn biden center in washington dc so he can make a billion dollars or so. i want to go back to this, the district attorneys in this country, the attorneys general who have indictment authorities, the state prosecutors who have power in this country, we need your help. federal law enforcement is corrupt. they are not going to investigate joe biden. five years with hunter biden, it should have taken five minutes by now. he's a throw away family member. we have nine members of the family now according to comer, who are involved in some form of money taking. this is a -- nine members of the biden crime family? we need the da's, we need the ag's, we need the state prosecutors to dust off all their codes of criminal conduct. we need them to look at all the things that the bidens have done publicly, get a copy of any of the information that's a

j. edgar hoover, who had this mantra, the fbi that agents be able to do any job anywhere, and that worked okay. you know, back you know, in the days and even today for, say, you know, in an agent who has a background in accounting they want to put on on on a gang squad or a gang squad investigator or who they want to put on, you know, on white collar crime, it's a lot harder to turn a gang squad agent into a top. a top right top rate cyber investigator, because the skills needed to investigate cybercrime are so specific, technical and are honed many years studying computer science or or learning on your own. like members of the hunting time, like like members of the ransomware hunting team, people michael gillespie have been interested in computers, you know, all of their lives. and, you know, since they were kids and honing their craft over the years and the fbi has over the years tried to force people with no background, interest or aptitude into computer and computer. they've tried to force people to become investigators, but it hasn't worked out. there's just no way to get that up to

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back in the beginning days of the borough, back when j edgar hoover took over in 1924, the idea thatnment records would be available to the public was not something that people tended to think about. government records got bust up and were eventually turned out. some of them ended up at the library of congress. as we heard earlier today, in the 1930s, we actually got archives. even when we did, the fbi basically set our records are our records, and they are not going to the national archives. that is exactly what happened. you look at the pre hoover area, stuck over eventually. you've been able to access them for a good long time. overall, fbi estimated files to be considered close to the public. now, that set, a lot of what the fbi does come down to the public because when you are investigating crime, investigating a national security threat that touches on a national security law, it ends up in court. the court produces a public record. pieces up the fbi records and's up in public. it was not until the late 1960s, early 1970s when the combination of government leaks, things like th

j. edgar hoover has personally directed the fbi to try to find something on her. fiorello laguardia, the mayor of new york, has sworn that he's going to drive her out of the city, but even then, even once she rebuilt her savings and had enough money to retire. she hesitated to as she had seen enough of human autocracy to know that in the square world she'd be just another nobody. or worse, as she puts it, as miss pearl adler, the reformed procurer is an honest citizen. i a social outcast as polly. the proprieties of new york's most opulent bordello. society came to me. so she continues on through the fat cat years of the world war to build up and then the wars. but by 1945 she's now really casting about. for an exit plan. back in 18 excuse me, 1938, last vogel famous as the boy genius of the legendary william morris agency, had urged her to write her memoir. but at this time, nothing could have been less appetizing. she would been paid a pretty penny for it. but that would have just about covered the cost of her funeral. but as the years went on this idea of becom

on saturday, coverage includes discussion on slavery and viewer collins on j edgar hoover and the loseles times executive editor. on sunday, our coverage continues with two more authors on gun violence and talkshow post will take your -- and a talkshow host will take your calls live on the air. watch live this weekend at 1:30 p.m. eastern on tv on c-span2. to see the full schedule, visit our website, book tv.org. >> the very first president to attend the white house correspondents dinner with calvin coolidge. i just -- i had just been elected to the white house senate. >> washington's premier black tie event is saturday, april 29 so watch c-span's live coverage from the washington hotel including red carpet arrivals of journalists, politicians and celebrities. this year's headliner is the host of the daily show and president biden is expected to speak. the white house correspondents dinner, april 29 on c-span, c-span our online at c-span.org. >> to public corporations, cbs and viacom seem to be controlled by the same man, sumner redstone. is the subject of a book called unscripted. er

j. edgar hoover and executive times director kevin meredith. on kund it cons. watch "the los angeles times" fest very of books live this weekend at 1:30 eastern on book tv on c-span2. to see the full schedule visit our website booktv.org. pres. biden: very first president to attend a chows correspondents' din we are us calvin coolidge in 1924. i had just been elected to the senate. >> the white house correspondent's dinner, washington's premier black tie event is saturday. watch c-span's live coverage from the washington hilton hotel including red carpet arrivals of journalists, politician and celebrities this year's headliner is the "daily show's" roy wood very. president biden is expected to speak. the white house correspondents' dinner, live, saturday april 29, live on c-span, c-span now, our free meebl video app, or online at c-span.org. >> next a hearing on federal food assistance in the upcoming farl bill before the senate agriculture subcommittee on food and nutrition. it was chaired by senator john fetterman. his first time chairing a subcommittee after

it is still the j o edgar hoover that people walk into every day.ther you're on the left or right, you should not want a corrupt police state that makes up the laws. you need to enforce the law as they exist. i'm going to deliver that. maria: people go to washington think can stay for 50 years. do you want term limits. >> absolutely. it's not just the he'll edged td leaders. maria: that will bust up the deep state. the new book released this week, called capitalist punishment, how wall street uses your money to create a country you didn't vote for. tell me more. >> this exposes the esg scam where the largest financial institutions are using the money of everyday citizens to vote for and advocate for environmental and social and political agendas at companies like apple or chevron that most americans disagree with and which don't advance their boast financial interests. that's the scam. and this is a book that exposes what's actually being done with your own money. i wrote the book before i knew i was going to run for president. i'm donating my perso

>> j edgar hoover tells bell telephone that schultzs gangster using his phone to carry out mob activities. we don't pry people of seic -- deprive people of service based on tha that makes them aiding and abetting? >> perhaps not. >> that's a perhaps? >> no i think th en with that knowledge the house of stem -- how would stand factors required and intent. >> and we are stuck with halberstam becau uil those factors are met in my telephone example, ty e arguably met in the telephone example. are they not? >> perhaps. again it'a judgment call. the nature of the act and ntribution. i don't think that the hypotheticals lend theels to one basic rule or jume call as to whether the feant is culpable or has become complicit. the statute equates or puts on payersogher. conspiracy, aiding and abetting. requiring again becoming a willing participant in t a. here furnishing of services is a general matt. that's all the court needs to decide in this case. i don't think it rises to that level. >> would it be consistent for halberamo knowingly be read just a shade short of purpose? th wld give some substa

>> j edgar hoover tells bell telephonth schultz is a gangster using his phone t carry out mob activities. we don't prpele of service -- deprive people of service bad on that. that makes them aiding and abetting? >> perhaps not. >> that's perhaps? >>o think that even with that knowledge the house of stem -- how would standactors required and intent. >> and we are stuck with haeram because until those factors are met in my telephone ample, they are arguably met in the telephone examp. are they not? >> perhaps. ain it's a judgment call. the nature of the act and contribution. i don't think that the hypothetallend themselves to one bac le or judgment call as twhher the defendant is culpable or has become complicit. the statute equates or puton payers together. conspiracy, aiding and abetting. requiring again becoming a willing paicant in the act. here furnishing of services is a geral matter. that's all the court needs to decide in this case. i don't think it rises to that level. >> would it be consistent for halberstam to knowingly be read just a shade short of purpose? that would give some