The Nation - News from Feb. 23, 1987
Richard M. Nixon decided in October, 1971, to end J. Edgar Hoover’s 48-year tenure as director of the FBI and name him a “consultant to the President,” NBC News said. The network said the decision is reflected in the locked Nixon personal files at the National Archives but that it is unclear from the papers whether Nixon ever told Hoover he was fired. Hoover died in May, 1972, still in the job as director. Nixon assistant John Taylor said the events in the NBC report “can only be understood in the broader context of the entire Nixon Administration.”
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