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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JOHN 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