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From: libertidad@south.south.com
On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:40:39 GMT, marika wrote:
>
>“As a teenager, Dick attended Eastern High School, just down the street
>from the Hoover home, where he led the cadet corps, played quarterback on
>the championship football team, and won election as the 1899 senior class
>president. He went to work for the Coast Survey after graduation, spending
>a summer at a field survey in Havre de Grace, Maryland. But he had bigger
>dreams—instilled, perhaps, by Annie—and soon left his father’s work
behind.
>Dick lived at home while attending law school at the Columbian University
>(soon to become the George Washington University), a step up from his
>parents’ high school educations. While in school he took a job as
>stenographer for a senator and then for the district’s chief of police,
>providing his little brother an early contact with the world of crime and
>law enforcement.[16]
> Dick later recalled pushing Hoover “thousands of miles” in a rickety old
>baby carriage during these years, a dutiful if reluctant teenager trudging
>the streets of Capitol Hill. Undoubtedly, though, their sister Lillian did
>much of the work—perhaps a source of her later estrangement from and
>resentment of her younger brother. Lillian graduated from high school in
>1901[…]”
>
>Excerpt From
>G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
>Beverly Gage
When did he turn gay?
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense
tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light
between two eternities of darkness.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV,
Speak, Memory: A Memoir
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