Make a Comment • Email Link • Send Letter to Editor IPFS News Link • Police State FBI watched McCarthy anti-Hoover effort 10-24-2007 • AP When Eugene McCarthy ran for president in 1968, he pledged to fire J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI director. Before long, McCarthy's calls for new FBI leadership were cataloged and commented upon by FBI officials in a nearly 500-page file, Watch Streaming Broadcast Live: LRN.fm Watch live shows and archives TV Live Chat Telegram Share this page with your friends on your favorite social network: