Daugherty-Burns scandal

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1921 Burns was considered well qualified to direct the Bureau of Investigation, and was friends with President Warren Harding's Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty. Burns was confirmed as Director of the Bureau of Investigation on August 22, 1921.
1924 Burns was forced to resign in 1924 at the request of Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone[7] and on May 10, 1924, J. Edgar Hoover took over the position on a provisional basis.
1924-1972 J. Edgar Hoover as FBI Director
Burns later refused to turn over Department of Justice documents to Congressional investigators, who in turn began investigating the BOI, Senate hearing revelations of BOI misdeeds were avidly covered in the press, and became known as the...
Burns's BOI field agents made visits to the offices of newspapers around the country who had presented the BOI's actions in a negative light, their clumsy attempts to intimidate newspaper editors caused a backlash in public opinion and Congress.