J. Edgar Hoover Being a Gentleman
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover seats Mrs. Martha Mitchell, wife of U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell, during a dinner given in her honor by the American Women's Newspaper Club on May 25, 1971. Hoover, making his first public social appearance in almost three years, was asked whether he had ever received one of Mrs. Mitchell's notorious late-night telephone calls. Without hesitation he replied, "I stay up at night waiting for it." (Bettmann/Corbis)