![]() ![]() While JFK was also anti-communist, both he and his brother Robert clashed with Hoover over any number of issues, such as Civil Rights and organized crime, and Hoover supported Nixon during the Presidential campaign against JFK. Hoover’s controversial anti-communist agenda as FBI director led him to be an ally of JFK’s father, Joe Kennedy, who was a successful businessman, an ideal capitalist, and a self-proclaimed enemy of communism. Edgar Hoover served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States for nearly 48 years, being first appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation – the FBI’s predecessor – in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director for another 37 years until his death in 1972. Edgar Hoover- a public servant of the highest courage- with the admiration of the author- John Kennedy.” The recipient, J. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To J. Octavo, original half cloth, with eight pages of black-and-white photogravures. ![]() New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1956.įirst edition of Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. ![]()
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