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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “He actually treated Hoover as his J. Edgar Hoover as his…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Club Random with Bill Maher

Published | Video Starts at 11:49

And also, you know, half of his employees at the Justice Department were FBI agents who worked for Hoover. And he had a buzzer on his desk for Hoover, which nobody had ever done. He actually treated Hoover as his J. Edgar Hoover as his employee, and no other attorney general had ever dared to do that. And I went up there. Me and my brothers would go up there and push the button, and Hoover would have to come up, and he would be very, very pissed off. (11:49–11:58)

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Asserts that Robert F. Kennedy Sr. treated J. Edgar Hoover as his employee, which was unprecedented for an attorney general.

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