Word: tolson
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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...
Died. Clyde Tolson, 74, J. Edgar Hoover's almost inseparable No. 2 man at the FBI for 42 years; of heart disease; in Washington, D.C. A taciturn lifelong bachelor, Tolson joined the fledgling bureau in 1928 and soon became what Hoover called "my strong right arm." Though his title was associate director (he was responsible for administration and investigation activities), Tolson handled a pistol convincingly in many of the spectacular arrests that built the FBI's G-man image in the 1930s. But mainly he was the director's loyal alter ego: he shared J. Edgar...
When FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover died last year, he left most of his estate of $551,500 to his longtime buddy Clyde A. Tolson, 72, who was with the FBI from 1928 till the day after Hoover died. Washington rumor had it that Tolson intended to turn Hoover's $100,000 Georgetown house into a private museum. If so, it will be an empty one, because Tolson has been quietly selling Hoover's art objects and other belongings at auction. In one consignment were four pairs of binoculars. For work or for Hoover's long days...
...several decades, Hoover was a figure of heroic probity-another generation's pistol-packing version of Ralph Nader. Unmarried to the end, he lived with his mother until her death in 1938. For recreation, he went to the racetrack, usually with his lifelong friend Clyde Tolson, who became Associate Deputy Director of the bureau; Hoover always cautiously restricted himself to the $2 window. In the '30s and '40s, he began to appear in New York nightclubs, such as the Stork Club, with cronies, notably Walter Winchell, but he would have only one drink, or two at most...
...Tolson, at the time commanding general at Bragg, picked the initial two counties for their proximity as well as for their poverty. Immediately south of Bragg, Hoke County has only two doctors (both in private practice) for 16,436 people-compared with a national ratio of 1 to 650-one dentist and a tuberculosis rate four times higher than the state average. More than half its residents are either black or Lumbee Indian. Anson County, some 60 miles to the west, is only slightly better off medically...