An unwritten rule of American politics is: Never tangle with J. Edgar Hoover, the bulldog-tough cop who has run the FBI since 1924. As if he did not have enough trouble on his hands last week, Bobby Kennedy broke the rule. Predictably, he came off secondbest. The question was whether the junior Senator from New York had approved, while U.S. Attorney General, a practice that is of increasing national concern: the bugging of private domains and conversations.
The origins of the argument lay in a long-smoldering, long-unpublicized feud between two strong-willed men,...
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