Hoover versus CC

Long after Chaplin had settled in Switzerland, J. Edgar Hoover kept him on the Security Index, the list of those to be arrested in case of a national emergency. As late as 1972, when the actor was invited to Los Angeles to receive a special Oscar, Hoover was to lobby against granting him an entry visa. In 1975, three years after Hoover's death, a congressional committee ordered a deetailed check of the domestic security files of the ten largest FBI offices. This indicated that no less than 19 percent of the Bureau's total effort was still devoted to hunting 'subversives.' Yet criminal conduct was discovered in only four out of 19,7000 investigations

Which was ignored and his entry visa was granted under the Presidency of a pre-Watergate Richard Nixon....too bad Harry Truman was not as

This was, of course, TWENTY YEARS LATER and a completely different political climate. We all know what kind of political animal Nixon was in 1952... Richard Carnahan

  What? With McGovernite control of the Democratic Party and millions of Americans hoping for a Viet Cong victory? I think it was pretty comparable.

Why didn't the demonic Hoover over-rule Nixon? DT has said he had that

Your words. My mouth. Doesn't fly, George.

Please show me where you *think* I said that.

What I *did* say is that enough is now known about Hoover's M.O. to understand how he exercised power over his nominal superiors. The fact that Nixon may well have been better, or at least as good as Hoover, at the dirty tricks game should not come as a surprise to even you, George.

In fact, this situation supports my contention about the common sense problem with logic which I have pointed to throughout this thread as what I see as being the basic problem with George's position, i.e. his expectation that philosophical allies would deal with each other the same way enemies would. What we know about Nixon and Hoover places them together on one end of the political spectrum. It would only be within George's 'logical construct' that they would for some reason be expected to 'over-rule' each other, not mine.

If you are asking why Nixon would allow Chaplin's re-entry in 1972, I have my own ideas. But without research they would be speculative, and therefore not the kind of thing I would like to put forth here. It might prove to be the source of divisive reactions, something I'd rather not be responsible for instigating.

See, this is what happens when the Shemp fans slip into the group.

I think we got a lot of Shemp fans here Shush.

~ Crooner

Isn't she going to fit right in?

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