Study of the Hegemony of Parasitism - michaeljgoodnight.com

the Bureau of Investigation. Instead, Stone, who was
Hoover's patron as well as Donovan's, appointed Hoover
Director of the Bureau of Investigation on Dec. 18, 1924.
Donovan also became involved in another political
football, the prosecution of Senator Burton K. Wheeler.
Wheeler was defended by Senator Tom Walsh, one of
the most powerful politicians in Washington, but
Donovan, against all advice to the contrary, insisted on
proceeding with the prosecution. It was said that the
charges against Wheeler were "ludicrous", and Stone
asked Donovan to drop the case, but he stubbornly
proceeded to indict Wheeler before a District of
Columbia grand jury. When the case was tried in Great
Falls, the jury deliberated only ten minutes before
bringing in a verdict of acquittal for Wheeler.
Such a boner would have destroyed the careers of most
men in Washington, but Donovan was under the
protection of Herbert Hoover, his associate from World
War I. Between 1924 and 1928, he was Hoover's closest
associate. Hoover took him to the Bohemian Club, the
sacrosanct West Coast powerhouse where he was the
directing figure. Hoover then persuaded President
Coolidge to appoint Donovan to the Colorado River
Commission, a seven state authority which organized the
proposals for the Hoover Dam (later renamed the
Boulder Dam by FDR, and still later, renamed the
Hoover Dam by Act of Congress in 1947.)