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Ep. 55: OG Man

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

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The Relationship Between Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson

Clyde Tolson came to the FBI in 1928 as a young man who had been working in and around DC for about a decade at that point like many early FBI officials he went to George Washington University. Neither one of them dated women Hoover certainly didn't there's some evidence Toulson maybe had a few slightly more serious relationships but I think we can only understand them as gay men okay?

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