Correspondence, Franklin Roosevelt and J. Edgar Hoover
Original Exhibition Caption: Longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover served in every presidential administration from Warren G. Harding to Richard Nixon. In late 1940, with World War II raging in Europe, FDR was concerned about Nazi spies operating in the United States. In this...
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OCR Page 1 of 2JOHN EDGAR HOOVER
Justice Hoover folder
DIRECTOR
Federal Bureau of Inventigation
1-40
United States Department of Justice
Washington, D. C.
December 14, 1940
The President
The White House
Washington, D. C.
My dear Mr. President:
with reference to your memorandum
of December 3, 1940, suggesting the assign-
ment of a man at Palm Beach this winter, I
am pleased to inform you that I am taking
appropriate steps to insure a complete
coverage of "friends and enemies" at Palm
Beach during the winter season.
Respectfully,
V eyes Hoover