J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets by Curt Gentry

Author:Curt Gentry
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Historical, American Government, 20th Century, Law Enforcement, General, United States, Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, Fiction, History
ISBN: 9780393321289
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2001-02-01T11:31:24+00:00

Following his censure, McCarthy was finished. He still had his Senate seat and his committee assignments, but when he rose to speak most of the senators left the chambers and reporters no longer attended his press conferences. Although he’d never been a Dapper Dan, Jean Kerr had cleaned him up for a time, but now he slipped back into his old ways. It wasn’t that he drank more, according to Richard Rovere, at least not at first, but that he seemed less able to handle it. Those who couldn’t avoid him noticed that his breath was always bad and that he frequently smelled of vomit.

His onetime friendship with J. Edgar Hoover was all he had left: he mentioned it in speech after speech, giving the impression that they remained bosom buddies and fellow battlers in the fight against the subversive menace, but in reality, and what seemingly hurt him most, was that when he called FBIHQ the director was either “in conference” or “out of town,” and even Lou Nichols referred his calls to an assistant. He tried to get back in the director’s good graces—the 1956 “Hoover for President” boomlet was mostly his idea—but his efforts rated not even a thank-you note. In Bethesda more often than out, as a result of a variety of mysterious ailments which were apparently alcohol-related or mental or both, he died on May 2, 1957, at the age of forty-seven, exactly fifteen years before Hoover, who was fourteen years his senior.*

Although he hadn’t spoken to him for three years, Hoover did attend his funeral. However, as far as the FBI was concerned, McCarthy, for all his assistance in publicizing the Communist menace, and thus significantly increasing the Bureau’s appropriations, had become a nonperson: there is no mention of his name in the index of Don Whitehead’s Bureau-approved history The FBI Story.

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