There's a new face to communism Edgar. And this isn't it. Communism is a foreign threat now, not domestic.
Mr. Kennedy, before you were even born, I heard that very same argument from a mister Mitchell Palmer. Do you know what it took to change his mind? A bomb. Now I do not want that to happen to you or your brother, sir. There's no reason we both can't get what we want. We can wage a war on two fronts sir. Do you understand?
You can go now Mr. Hoover.
Yes sir.
Please leave the transcripts here with me.
Yes sir.
Oh, and feel free and share them with your brother. Oh, and let him know that I have a copy of my own in safekeeping.
Clip from J.Edagr with Jeffrey Donovan as Robert Kennedy and Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover.