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I'm Megna Chakrabardi.

Jay Edgar Hoover was the quintessential government man.

He grew up in Washington, D.C.

He went to college there in 1913, got his first job there, and then spent his entire career

there, a legendary 48 years as the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigations.

And Hoover devoted most of that career to hating and going after communists.

That was Hoover testifying at a congressional hearing on March 27, 1947.

He goes on to say that the communist party was, quote, far better organized than the Nazis

and, quote, and that their goal was to overthrow the U.S. government.

Hoover's goal to destroy them.

Communism in reality is not a political party.

It is a way of life, an evil and malignant way of life.

It reveals a condition of kin to disease that spreads like an epidemic.

And like an epidemic, a quarantine is necessary to keep it from infecting this nation.

Along with his five decade crusade against communism, Hoover is also known for how he took

down his enemies through intimidation, blackmail, to illegal wiretapping through his famous

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