Chuck Todd
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158,313 appearances
197 recordings
5 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 6d ago
Chuck Todd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So I want to make this clear.
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There really are violent anarchists planting bombs in America.
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And it wasn't an invented threat.
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That doesn't mean we didn't overreact, right?
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Palmer responds.
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He builds an entire a new intelligence operation inside the Justice Department.
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He puts a twenty four year old lawyer in charge of this new radical division.
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You'll need to remember this guy's name.
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A young man named J.
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Edgar Hoover, twenty-four years old.
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Five years later, of course, Hoover would take control of the Bureau of Investigation and eventually turn that into the FBI that we sort of recognize today.
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I say sort of because Hoover certainly uh used and abused it.
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But in 1919 and 1920, this young Hoover is helping Palmer identify radicals and suspected anarchists.
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And the response becomes overwhelming.
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Thousands of people are swept up.
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Immigrants in particular are arrested, basically, just on suspicion.
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People are detained without adequate warrants.
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There are allegations of beatings and other mistreatment.
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Hundreds are deported, and these become known as the Palmer Raids.
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And the FBI's own official history today describes what happened as a combination of politics, inexperience, and overreaction.
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