J. Edgar Hoover wasn’t known for messing around.
When U.S. Rep. Jack Brooks criticized the FBI director during a background interview for a potential judicial nominee in 1958, Hoover laid down the law – his version of it.
“He is to be ignored,” Hoover wrote of the Texas Democrat in a June 1958 memo, the Huffington Post wrote.
FBI files shows that agents believe Brooks may have gone to a communist meeting in 1943 and favored inter-racial relationships.
