Reply #20: When the Internets were new, "Hoover + Murchison + Costello" returned ...

[Octafish]

... seemingly more hits, if memory serves. Anyway, there are still some important nuggets to pan out and display for consideration as pure gold, pyrite or just yellow flakes.



Speaking of flakes, here's a bit more on the subject of the dust-dry turd himself:

"This fellow (J. Edgar) Hoover is the worst curse to have come to this government in years." -- Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn

From Winterboy.com:

7. Exporting Division

1951 “We were the ones,” says former Assistant FBI Director William Sullivan, “who made the McCarthy hearings possible. We fed McCarthy all the material he was using. I knew…I worked on it myself. At the same time, we were telling the public we had nothing to do with it.” In addition, McCarthy’s chief investigator and other key staff members were former FBI agents.

Prescott Bush cashes in his share of stock from the Nazi front Union Banking Co. He uses a portion of this profit to fund his Senate race; the rest is placed in trust.

J. Edgar Hoover’s friend, oilman Clint Murchison, promises Joe McCarthy support “till the bitter end.”

The second wave of HUAC hearings begins with McCarthy leading the charge. Over the next three years, McCarthy is considered an American hero and a mainstay in the public eye; he subpoenas some of the most prominent entertainers of the era- Orson Welles, Lucille Ball, Dashielle Hammett- demanding “the naming of names.” He’ll win re-election in 1952.

While some float the idea of Hoover himself running for President, the FBI Director joins himself to a clique of fabulously wealthy Americans now pushing Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon toward the White House. Edgar hosts a high-dollar Nixon fundraiser at the California resort Del Charro- near Del Mar, where the horse-racing Texans love to gamble, betting on horses being illegal in Texas. Although the fundraiser is a small, private affair, those reported in attendance include oilmen Clint Murchison, wildcatter Sid Richardson and Prescott Bush, who’s also running for political office. The Murchison milieu is infested with organized crime figures as well, but J. Edgar Hoover always claims him, “one of my closest friends.”
Prescott Bush will later brag that he’s responsible for bring Nixon into politics, and for creating the winning ‘Eisenhower-Nixon’ ticket in '52. What is known is that the Texans put their money on Eisenhower and pressure him for a year to run for President. Eisenhower will plot strategy with Hoover and Murchison and announce his candidacy in August of ’53- a mere three months before the election.

PS: Thank you, lonestarnot! Much obliged. Please feel free to add on in any direction, pro-con or neutral. he more that gets posted on these threads, the more of a case can be built against the BFEE. Intelligent readers will let the facts decide the case.