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a @ ‘ 6 . November 18, 1964 JEL toh E | _hby | > ae dohn Edgar Hoover, Director 2. > Fédéral Bureau of Investigation 45 7 United States Department of Justice _ my = "E called them as I saw them at the time, even when it got 2 == S E:4 whee | mé into trouble..." (U.S. News and. World Report, 1-1-62, page 4’7) | ‘This terse statement was used by Joe Kennedy to describe his years in politics, but I think it aetually represents his lifelong creed iii everything he undértook, f° Th all the years that we have béen friends, I have never known him to dodge making the hard choicé--onece he decided that was the only road open, And he always made his choite known with a candor and — a blunt honésty which were refreshing and completely free of déviousness, Everyone talks about him, yet few lsiow very much about . A thousand myths havé sprung up around this fevoueny, ‘unique man, i Oh B Z u Sify ba i, fi Si t a whl —, ——primarily because he has had the courage to ent in: the fe ef the ‘prevalent - Casper. cute" —political theories, public policiés:dnd ipxejudices of the timne, “With: his. pia wlan as ——+- Mr. DeLoach (sent with cover memo) 1- Mr. Tdson (sent with cover memo) Rosen 1. Miss Gandy (sent. with cover memo) Tel NOTE: See M. A, Jones to DeLoach memo dated 11-6-64 captioned "Article for Tele. Room Senator Edward M. Kennedy," * Gandy. HHA: Pi (8), TELETYPE tnrtL_] Gandy 4B