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Comey isn't the first FBI director to keep memos on a president

  • Written by Douglas M. Charles, Associate Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University

President Donald Trump allegedly asked FBI Director James Comey to drop the FBI’s investigation into Michael Flynn.

President Franklin Roosevelt asked FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to collect information on Americans who had committed no crimes.

President Richard Nixon asked Hoover to provide the White House a list of reporters the FBI knew...

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