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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 1

166 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Eleanor Roosevelt · 164 pages OCR'd
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SP wre we, - - eo pM HAE AMA Neneh le On oh (= eee Seen a NPS CAM NRAMAIBB on «ee one A ay wo MME ee a oO pes og SCR ery Ter, Why has our FBI not brougi:t these peorle before the Bar of Justice before? Why should it be a Congressional inyestigating committee? u 2 MRS. RI don't know.unless it is they are very - they . always have very expensive lawyers, and they try to keep just within the law in what they do, and 4t may well be that it required certain particular - uh - rules - uh ~ to allow them to be brought before the public, so to speal:, because that is what a Confressional committee does. ER: - It is my feeling that 1s what has happened. MRS. R: Perhaps we should change our laws so0 68 to ellow -. this to be done, by the FBI. ER: I think that our FRI is - (interrupted) » MRS. R; Might lead to that - (interrupted) shackled the FBI, not made them large enough, not provided them with enough funds to really get the job done. It is only when a Senate Investigating Committee comes along with two hundred fifty, five hundred thousand dllar appropriation, and is able to spend it on these hearings, that we ere able really to go to tewn. But if the Deyartinent of Justice were given the proper funds to enable the FBI to carry out the same investigetione that are carried on by the Senate, then JT think thet we could have a much more efficient curl of crime. ". ER: | ie I think our FBI 1s plenty in the law MAS, Rijt thint that 4a undoubtedly truc, that 7 hove said several times and for a Jone while that my ow preference, instead of carryiin: cn an Jo-aAmervicear - Activities Committee, for instance. would be giving (interrupted), but I think what has happened, we nave — “
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