may 2, 1972 - J. Edgar Hoover death

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During his 48-year tenure as FBI director, Hoover’s reputation for having access to so much compromising information about so many people ensured that no president was willing or able to remove him from his post.
After Hoover died in his sleep in 1972, Richard Milhous Nixon an American politician who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974 said in a press conference: “Every American, in my opinion, owes J. Edgar Hoover a great debt for building the FBI into the finest law enforcement organization in the entire world.”
Because of how powerful Hoover had become, the Department of Justice took steps to rein the bureau in, including limiting the directorship to a single 10-year term, to be appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate.

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