J. Edgar Hoover: The Man & the Secrets

Part Two Of Two Parts For almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover held virtually unchecked public power. He manipulated every president from FDR to Nixon but shrank from human contact. He was a mass of contradictions...a hypochondriac who became national hero, a bachelor obsessed with sexual slander, a federal official with a web of connections to organized crime. Hoover literally changed the course of U.S. history with files the Justice Department called "12 drawers full of political cancer." He came close to giving McCarthyism a boost, to blackmailing the Kennedy brothers and to influencing the Supreme Court itself. "There's something addictive about a secret." --J. Edgar Hoover