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Carter is not merely a farmer, but an engineer and businessman of accomplishment. This combined with his strong sense of community reminds me most most of Herbert Hoover−our last farmboy cum millionaire businessman-engineer-president. In such a broader (and truer) perspective, Jimmy Carter may be the ultimate American regional synthesizer...
Adams became the bureau's personnel director in 1965, and was made an inspector in 1971. The next year he signed his name as a witness to a document that was supposedly signed in FBI headquarters by Hoover's top aide, Clyde Tolson. It was later revealed in a lawsuit that the Tolson signing never took place-his name had been written on the legal papers by his secretary-and Adams' reputation became more clouded...
...When Hoover died in 1972, Gray took over and immediately scotched a plan to promote Adams again. Instead, trying to rid the bureau of hard-core Hooverites, Gray ordered Adams out of headquarters, to the backwater office in San Antonio. (Many veteran agents believe that Adams urged Attorney General Bell to prosecute Gray for the Weatherman break-ins to even the score...
...Kelley did so, and Adams prospered: within a year, he was named the bureau's third in command, in charge of all FBI investigations. The promotion of Adams created one of Kelley's biggest headaches, forcing him to deny repeatedly that the bureau was being controlled by Hoover's people. The charge was that Mohr still flashed signals to Adams and to Nicholas Callahan, once Mohr's lieutenant and at that time Kelley's top aide...
TIME has learned that the cover-up included not telling investigators immediately about documents stored for five years in a filing cabinet in the J. Edgar Hoover Building. Among them were memos from Mark Felt-dubbed "one-liners" by investigators-giving Edward Miller explicit orders for break-ins and other illegal activities. The cabinet, say FBI sources, was tucked away in a corner of a little-used public room of the building and only came to light when a low-level employee suggested that it was an eyesore and should be thrown out. But it was opened first...