There was little love lost between the Attorney General and the Director, but Hoover was keenly aware that he could not be fired - not during the President's first term, but he might should JFK be reelected. Hence the recruitment drive for which James Covington was a prime candidate: whie, Anglo-Saxon Protestant, a patriot who ad enlisted in his country's cause and won a Purple Heart in Korea, a lawyer like the Director-and last but certainly not least, the son-in-law of a powerful conservative U.S. Senator whom Hoover greatly admired................
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