Ed Helms
speaker
9,380 appearances
79 recordings
18 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2d ago
Ed Helms’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That FBI TV show?
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Hoover was intimately involved in its production, often suggesting storylines.
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As for that Jimmy Stewart movie, Hoover edited and approved the scripts himself.
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And he tasked FBI agents with investigating every person on set, even the gaffers.
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Careful with the lighting, guys, it's starting to look a little communist.
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As far as Hoover's message to the American people, it was simple.
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They could always count on the FBI.
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The vast majority of Americans revered Hoover.
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A Gallup poll in 1971 found that over 70% of Americans thought he was doing a good to excellent job.
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Only 7% had a negative view of him.
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Hoover had been exempted from compulsory retirement in the 1960s, which essentially made him FBI director for life.
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His power across five decades was unquestioned.
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When someone suggested to John F.
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Kennedy that maybe it wasn't a great idea for one person to have all that power for that long, Kennedy, then the president, replied with resignation, You don't fire God.
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Back at the Washington Post offices, Betty Medzger was holding documents that did not jibe with the FBI America knew.
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The contents of the files were so shocking, so illegal, Betty was skeptical that they were actually real.
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She took the files
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Ken Clausen was a veteran reporter who was well sourced inside the federal government.
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That morning one of Clausen's government sources had reached out to him asking if anyone at the Post had received stolen FBI documents.
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If the FBI was asking about them, then clearly the files Betty received were authentic.
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