retaining his job." According to Gore Vidal, interviewed in 1974, "There wasn't anybody in Massachusetts ... who didn't know what David Walsh was up to." Walsh's most recent biographer writes that "The campaign to destroy David I. Walsh worked because he could not defend himself ... David I. Walsh was gay." He was a member of the Naval Order of the United States. Upon his retirement from political office, Walsh resided in Clinton, Massachusetts, until his death following a cerebral hemorrhage in Boston on June 11, 1947. Walsh is buried in St. John's Cemetery in Clinton. In his later years he received honorary degrees from Holy Cross, Georgetown University, Notre Dame, Fordham, Boston University, Canisius College, and St. Joseph's College (Philadelphia), A bronze statue of him by Joseph Coletti was erected near the Music Oval on Boston's Charles River Esplanade in 1954. It bears the motto: "non sibi sed patriae", a tribute to his service to the U.S. Navy while in the Senate. Walsh's alma mater, Holy Cross, awards an annual scholarship in his name. See also List of political sex scandals in the United States Notes References Biddle, Francis, In Brief Authority, (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962) Charles, Douglas M., J. Edgar Hoover and the Anti-interventionists: FBI Political Surveillance and the Rise of the Domestic Security State, (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2007) City of Boston: "Charles River Esplanade Study Report as amended June 23, 2009" Fleming, Thomas, The New Dealers' War: F.D.R, and the War within World War II (Basic Books, 2001), Gentry, Curt, J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets (NY: W.W. Norton, 1991) Hanify, Edward B., Memories of a Senator: The Honorable David I. Walsh (Boston, MA?, 1994?) Improper Bostonians: Lesbian and Gay History from the Puritans to Playland (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998) Irish Heritage Trail: Irish Heritage Trail, Boston O'Toole, David Outing the Senator: Sex, Spies, and Videotape (privately published, 2005), Peabody, Richard and Ebersole, Lucinda, Conversations with Gore Vidal (University Press of Mississippi, 2005) Rosenkrantz, Barbara Gutmann, Public Health and the State: Changing Views in Massachusetts, 1842–1936 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972) Tommasini, Anthony, Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle (NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999) Tripp, C.A., The Homosexual Matrix (NY: McGraw-Hill, 1975) Trout, Charles H., Boston, the Great Depression, and the New Deal (NY: Oxford University Press, 1977) Wayman, Dorothy G. David I. Walsh: Citizen-Patriot (Milwaukee: Bruce