Your Tax Dollars At Work: FBI Tracked Mailer For 15 Years

“In the summer of 1962, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was scanning his morning Washington Post when an item on Page A15 caught his eye. Norman Mailer’s most recent article in Esquire magazine had mocked Jacqueline Kennedy for, among other things, being excessively soft-spoken for a first lady. Hoover scribbled a note: ‘Let me have memo on Norman Mailer.'”