Why do we need this? Because criminals flee in fast automobiles across state lines,...
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[Hoover is at a Senate Appropriation Committee hearing]
Senator Kenneth McKellar:
Why do we need this?
J. Edgar Hoover:
Because criminals flee in fast automobiles across state lines, thereby defeating local jurisdiction because there is no federal police force to stop them.
Senator Kenneth McKellar:
By my tally, your bureau wants to spend more taxpayer's dollars catching crooks, than what the crooks you catch stole in the first place.
J. Edgar Hoover:
Well that's ridiculous. The Bureau has apprehended kidnappers and bank robbers who have stolen up to and in excess of...
Senator Kenneth McKellar:
Really?
[Hoover stops midsentence]
Senator Kenneth McKellar:
How many have you apprehended?
J. Edgar Hoover:
We have arrested and arraigned 213 wanted felons.
Senator Kenneth McKellar:
No, I mean *you*, Director Hoover.
J. Edgar Hoover:
Well, as Director, I administer.
Senator Kenneth McKellar:
How many have you arrested, personally?
[long pause as Hoover stares at McKellar]
J. Edgar Hoover:
I have never arrested anybody.
[Other men in the chamber gasp in shock]
Senator Kenneth McKellar:
You've never arrested anybody?
J. Edgar Hoover:
Well of course not. I'm an administrator...
Senator Kenneth McKellar:
With no field experience. You are shockingly unqualified, aren't you, sir? You have never personally conducted a criminal investigation in the field in your life. I think you're a front. I think your prowess as a lawman is a myth, created from the hoopla of headlines by Mr. Suydam, your publicist there. Crimebuster? G-Man? You're setting yourself up as a Czar? That's running wild in my estimation.
J. Edgar Hoover:
A *crime* is what runs wild...
Senator Kenneth McKellar:
If this country requires a bureau such as yours, I question whether you are the person fit to run it.
J. Edgar Hoover:
[getting angry]
Well I will not be judged by a kangaroo court of venal politicians...
Senator Kenneth McKellar:
Your appropriation increase is denied.
[taps his gavel, signifying the end of the session; Hoover and his aides get up and leave]
J. Edgar Hoover:
Feed the following to Walter Winchell: "McKellar is a Neanderthal, and he is on a personal vendetta to destroy me." We will not contest him in his committee. We need to fight him on the front page. Where's John Dillinger?
Transcript
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Why did you tell me that
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You could have made up a story
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I'm not gonna lie to you
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That's a serious thing to say to a girl you just met
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I know you
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Well I don't know you
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I haven't been anyplace
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Well some of the places I've been ain't so hot
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Where I'm going is a whole lot better
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Want to come along
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Boy you are in a hurry
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If you were looking at what I'm looking at you'd be in a hurry too
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Well
Clip duration: 36 seconds
Views: 181
Timestamp in movie: 00h 26m 20s
Uploaded: 26 March, 2022
Genres: action, biography, crime
Summary: The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.
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00:09 Here's the man who killed Pretty Boy Floyd
00:31 I was a wild boy and well I was foolish
00:26 Blocking vehicles The alley
00:36 According to the bank teller Barbara Patzke
00:10 The public don't like kidnapping
00:35 John Dillinger held up a bank for 74 000
00:25 How you doing Billie
00:10 Mr Purvis how did you run down Pretty Boy Floyd
00:33 It's the eyes ain't it
00:16 At the arraignment
00:04 You can be a dead hero or a live coward
00:05 You know when I'm not doing this I'm a scout for...
00:35 This is a phone call conversation
00:14 One rule I learned from Walter Dietrich
00:17 One rule I learned from Walter Dietrich
00:26 I know you
00:07 I heard one today Indiana paper
00:04 If you interfere I will arrest you
00:06 I ain't most men Yeah
00:25 How you doing, Billie?