Why didn't JFK fire J. Edgar Hoover?

J. Edgar Hoover had his own personal retirement plan, which was never! Every time a new president would take office he would be in a panic that he would be replaced as the head of the F.B.I. read more

By the time JFK was in office, J Edgar Hoover was a DC institution in one person. He had dirt bag in every politician of consequence in Washington. Not even Nixon, Nixon, could fire him. read more

” Hack: “He didn't fire Hoover because he didn't know what Hoover really knew. The same reason no one else fired Hoover. read more

JFK assassination anniversary: A private conversation between LBJ and J. Edgar Hoover File: In this Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (R) and Lady Bird Johnson (2ndL), watch as US Vice President Lyndon Johnson (C) is administered the oath of office by Federal Judge Sarah Hughes (L) as he assumed the presidency of the US following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. read more