Director of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. The Agency was his private fiefdom; no president had enough balls to remove Hoover from office, not even Nixon. It was an FBI that suspected of nearly everyone something criminal, relentlessly hounding Albert Einstein, Frank Sinatra, the Kennedys, Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, etc. about communist ties and other Unamerican Activities. It's