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63 ae ae ee Taian nt namie aiteatiie ee ane one an cote yaeaceee ne sete me — Two Strict Rules * - At the White House iHoover very early in his His long-term friendship Catece made two rules from with President Lyndon B. which the bureau does not Johnson requires his presence vary, If there is to be a raid at the White House often. or a dangerous arrest is to be “In the old days, [ used tf made, the ranking agent on sce Mr, Johnson in a less for- the scene always leads the Jual way." Hoover said. “Ofte sforay in person. He also en I'd go to his house to diny tmade the unchanging rule that ner and find Sam Rayburn publicly credited with a case you could get the best chili that hundreds may have con carne and the best mint worked on. -jwep in Washington.” “To this day, I have never \ Hoover is nearly unique disclosed the names of the among Washington official- three agents who shot John dom in one other respect: He Dillinger to death when he |was born here. went for his gun near the Bi- | Two hours with J. Edpar Wes individual FBI man is ever there. }t was a place where Hoover said. “One of them is 40 years of American history. dead. One has retired and one As a man who can look bac! is still on duty with the bu- with recognition on the Amer reau, Don't pay any atten- ican scene from the adminis. tion to those stories that tration of Theodore Roose- come out from time to time. Welt, Hoover has known vir- Sometimes it seems that at Wally every prominent persona east 50 men must have been to decorate that stage. he ones who killed Dillinger.” He has probably been ad- | Hoover said he knew per- Mired or hated with more in- onally many of the criminals tensity than any living Ameri who have gotten their come- Can. A great man in ever; { uppance from the FBI, arse of the word, frosty ia _ither an ogre nor a bron of oma’ was the cele strument of blind justice. Means, who was actually an : * agent of the Bureau of Inves- A Full, Rich Life {gation that Hoover took |? y edgar Hoover, seeming. over when it was a hapless ‘fy indestructible, is a warm, organization of political ap- intensely human being. who pointees. One of his first aCtS enjoys a full, rich, sauisfying was to dismiss Means. — life. Aside from his awesome When Means was convicled responsibilities, he is ene agraph Theater in Chicago,” Moover in an airplane are ont f bilking the late Mrs. Eva- interested and likeable. ivn Walsh McLean af money Away from the office, hij n her vain hope of obtaining greatest pastimes are a goo4 release of the kidnaped Lind- meal a quiet trip to Sloan's [bergh baby, Hoover was in for tire auction, the pleasure the courtroom to see Means of contemplating his five safely off to prison. | Whistiers and a few Frederic There were only 900 em-; Remingtons that hang on his reins at the FBE in 1924 with In his 69th year on earth, the right he demanded and ' he loves his life, his country, got to run it without political his organization and his interference. Today there are friends. And he is not abou nearly 6,390 agents, all hand- to give up any of these thing icked and intelligent career There are, he said, too man investigators, and about &,000 things left to do, other personnel of all kinds. “The greatest enemy,” as This vast organization, op- ‘be puts it, “mtimacte rating within the tramework, bof the Justice Denartment, re- we SRE Reese Fe quires more time than the di- rector can readily spare, His’ dutics have cost him the ak- ernoons he occasionally spent playing tennis at the Colur- bia Country Club, They keep im in Washington when ould rather be in the field ith his agents in the 50 tes, eee c WOORE LT MBI TES TLE TTTRLErE ERAT gy SORES Gaertner ST om ane yg nemo to Ney te cee etme tam pra te OUT One a RT ET