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My point is that Hoover did not function in a socio-political vacuum. Neither did George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, the Democratic Party, John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, or Lyndon Johnson who all added to the evil of racial injsutice. We can wash our society and history of the names and places of all who have administered injustice as some form of absolution of the nation. Hoover was one strand of a racist system. Wiping out his name in some ways is a rewriting of history in which the injustices inflicted by the federal government, by the society, and by the President and attorney general he served, are placed on the shoulders of one dead man whose name is then obliterated.

I don't think the G Washington monument honors slavery. It just needs to convey the full story. We are as well served remembering the full (and current) story of the FBI, Hoover, the presidents for whom he worked, the Congress who paid him, and the society systemically riddled with racism; as we are by making our story a bit more tidy.

1. Six years ago, Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, led a futile charge to expunge Hoover’s name on grounds Hoover “clearly abused his role as director of the FBI”. Burton said, “Symbolism matters in the United States, and it is wrong to honor a man who frequently manipulated the law to achieve his personal goals.” He described Hoover as “a man who threw everything out the window, including the lives of innocent men, in order to get what he wanted.”

2. Among Hoover’s foul deeds were manufacturing lies about people that were leaked to the press, the persecution of ordinary citizens for their political beliefs, the infiltration of legitimate organizations such as the ACLU, routine criminal breaking-and-entering(black bag) jobs without court warrants, attempts to get the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to commit suicide, bugging of the hotel rooms of King, Eleanor Roosevelt, and others to obtain prurient information, and his aggressive attempts to derail the civil rights movement, all documented in Richard Hack’s comprehensive “Puppetmaster: The Secret Life of J. Edgard Hoover”(New Millennium Press).

3. Hoover despised King to the point of madness. Along with a tape recording made from bugging his hotel room, Hoover sent King a letter that called King a “dissolute, abnormal moral imbecile” and warned, “King, like all frauds, your end is approaching.” The letter repeated the phrase “you are done” over and over and urged King to commit suicide: “There is but one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation.” Hoover even sent a copy of a hotel room tape recording to King’s office, where it was read by his wife.