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5. You're very welcome

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Reply #4)

Thu Feb 23, 2023, 12:09 AM

Feb 2023

Would it that it hadn't been so.

But J. Edgar was, I think, the closest thing this country ever had to a dictator - more even than El Cheetolísimo.

Trump, after all, was in power just 4 years - and never really managed to hijack power, over both the public and private sector, in the way Hoover did or for 27 years (effectively, after FDR died) like Hoover did.

Though not for lack of trying, that's for sure.

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Hoover was a one man crime wave peppertree Feb 2023 #1

Yet, one president after another, refused to reign him in MichMan Feb 2023 #2

They wouldn't dare! peppertree Feb 2023 #3

Well said, thanks! Rhiannon12866 Feb 2023 #4

You're very welcome peppertree Feb 2023 #5

I have actually thought about that. Rhiannon12866 Feb 2023 #6

Among the general public, absolutely peppertree Feb 2023 #7