White was led into Hoover’s immaculate office, where there was
an imposing wooden desk and a map on the wall showing the
locations of the bureau’s field offices. And there, before White,
was the boss man himself. Hoover was then remarkably slim and
boyish looking. In a photograph taken of him several months
earlier, he is wearing a stylish dark suit. His hair is thick and wavy,
his jaw is held tight, and his lips are pressed together sternly. His
brown eyes have a watchful gaze, as if he were the one looking
through a camera.
Hoover at the Bureau of Investigation in December 1924 Credit
35White and his cowboy hat loomed over the diminutive Hoover,
who was so sensitive about his modest stature that he rarely
promoted taller agents to headquarters and later installed a raised