Epstein Secrets

An old friend approached us with a thick sheaf of what was purported to be a photocopy of the autobiographical manuscript on which former President Richard M. Nixon was still at work. Our first reaction was skepticism. While most of the contents dealt predictably with contemporary history as it has already been r

st HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015096 Whittaker Chambers, against Senator Joseph McCarthy and against J. Edgar Hoover. In that vein, gossips used to rant about Hoover and Clyde Tolson double-dating with Charles “Bebe” Rebozo and myself. Neither Rebozo nor! are “gay.” We have been very close friends since 1950. Wha

irony that while Bobby Kennedy was giving official permission to J. Edgar Hoover to spy on Martin Luther King, | was giving unofficial permission to Hoover to spy on Kennedy. That is to say, Robert Maheu may have been working for Howard Hughes, but he had also continued working for the FBI. So when he re

s large, sometimes small, in some of the most cataclysmic events of the last half century—from the assassination of JFK, to the forced resignation of Richard Nixon, to the Chappaquiddick investigation of Ted Kennedy, to the impeachment of President Clinton, to the war crimes trials of accused war criminals, to t

t. One of the great villains of the day to all liberals was J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI. On several occasions, I let my negative views about Hoover be known to Goldberg, but he never said a word. I didn’t understand why. A few years later, I asked Bazelon, who smiled, and said “I probably shouldn

ed Bazelon, who smiled, and said “I probably shouldn’t tell you, but it’s important for you to know that there are no perfect heroes.” He continued, “Hoover and Goldberg got along well, because when Goldberg was the lawyer for the labor movement, he worked hard to rid the C.I.O. of Communist influence.” I

. P. 17(c)(Q). °4 See generally United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683, 689 (1974). 95 See id. at 699. D

6 Td. at S4263 (statement of Sen. Feinstein). 87 Td. (statement of Sen. Feinstein); see also Att'y Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales, Prepared Remarks at the Hoover Inst. Bd. of Overseers Conference (Feb. 28, 2005) (indicating that a federal victims' rights amendment remains a priority for President Bush), avail

the benefit of having lived through Kennedy and Nixon. PK: My earliest remembrance of a Presi- dent wa

at it is. It’s like J. Edgar Hoover; he stayed around for decades [via] blackmail. I think it’s the same thing, You don’t have to say it, you know. Hoover would just go to JFK and say, “We found some photo of you in bed with Marilyn Monroe. But don’t you worry, we'll keep it in our safe.” EP: You've liv

57% Kennedy.. .......... 30% Johnson. ........... Nixon... ….........m.. 47% 53% Ford.... ........лллI 42

................ 38% Taft..................................40% wilson .......................... ... 52/ Harding........................... Coolidge. Hoover. F. Roosevelt. •...m.... 49% 48% 42% 50% Truman..... ........... Eisenhower. ....... 50% 57% Kennedy.. .......... 30% Johnson. ........... Nixon... …

57% Kennedy.. .......... 30% Johnson. ........... Nixon... ….........m.. 47% 53% Ford.... ........лллI 42

................ 38% Taft..................................40% wilson .......................... ... 52/ Harding........................... Coolidge. Hoover. F. Roosevelt. •...m.... 49% 48% 42% 50% Truman..... ........... Eisenhower. ....... 50% 57% Kennedy.. .......... 30% Johnson. ........... Nixon... …