The Administration: Off the Chest & into the Fire
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J. Edgar's outburst left a lot of people puzzling over what had happened to the tight-lipped old G-man. Some felt that, because he will reach the mandatory retirement age of 70 on Jan. 1, this was simply a parting shot before he turned in his badge. Yet Lyndon Johnson signed an executive order last May that allows Hoover to stay on no matter how old he is. Still, it was obvious that Hoover had been chafing for a long time in his unfamiliar role as a Justice Department underling, and his reverberating blast to the newshens was one way to ease that frustration. J. Edgar Hoover has many old foes, has made a legion of new ones recently; undoubtedly there will be vastly increased pressures on the White House from now on to boot the old fellow out of his job.
* Last week Assistant FBI Director William C. Sullivan said that some 200 Communists were among the 200,000 civil rights demonstrators who participated in last year's March on Washington.
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