While we wait for the already much-acclaimed movie “The Post” to find its way here, a locally, and freshly, relevant story about one of its lead characters:
Before he was editor of The Washington Post, Ben Bradlee reported for Newsweek. Bill Moyers, then the press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson, whispered to Bradlee that Johnson had decided to fire J. Edgar Hoover, the only director the FBI had ever had.
This was a huge. Hoover was widely seen as irreplaceable. Not so much because he was respected or loved, but because he was feared. He had something on everyone.