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In 1935 Hoover discovered that he could be indispensable to the administration in other ways, that he had access to information of a political value that could be used to ensure his continued access to the president. As the government grew increasingly anxious respecting the growth of totalitarian regimes abroad and radical movements internally, it undertook to investigate the backgrounds of large numbers of federal job applicants and appointees. Much of that task fell to the FBI and with it the temptation, rarely resisted, to pursue investigations wholly unjustified under federal regulations. In this Hoover was given some encouragement by the president, who also sanctioned, sometimes unwittingly, the use of wiretaps and break-ins to collect information of a sometimes intimate and potentially scandalous nature. Hoover's reports regarding his investigation's findings and his assurances that the secrets learned would remain safe with him gave him...
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