He is seen as the founder of the FBI, and as the man who built it up into a major crime fighting and nation protecting group. He knew how to work the media, until the 1950's when the country started going to the left politically. An example of him using the media was making John Dillinger and others into a threat to the country, when him and others were just small time bank robbers He also made as if he himself was out there fighting them, when he was just a a figure head. He looked the part. He was like Fauci, who never saw a patient but is known as a great doctor. I think in the future when the left in America wants his name off the FBI building, he will go the way of Confederate generals and certain former presidents.

He did build a great organization that has done a lot of great work, but it became a mess when he lost control of it.