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Mark Feldstein: Was Nixon Gay?
Mark Feldstein, the Richard Eaton professor of broadcast journalism at the University of Maryland, is the author of Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture.
Richard Nixon was many things — crafty, criminal, self-pitying, vengeful, paranoid. But gay?
According to a novel to be released Tuesday, “Nixon’s Darkest Secrets,”the former president and his best friend, Charles “Bebe” Rebozo, had a relationship of a “possibly homosexual nature.” But author Don Fulsom, a former radio reporter who covered the White House from Lyndon Johnson’s presidency to Bill Clinton’s, provides scant evidence for this claim. No new White House tapes. No love letters, incriminating pictures or diary entries. No recently declassified government documents. Just a recollection from retired journalist Bonnie Angelo, who, in an interview with me, confirmed the story she told Fulsom: In , she saw a tipsy Nixon pull Rebozo into a group photo at a Florida restaurant and hold his hand for “upwards of a minute.”
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Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States ( &#; 74), is primarily remembered for the Watergate scandal. During the congressional investigation that led to Nixon’s resignation, more than 3, hours of recorded conversations between Nixon and his advisors came to light. Within the small percentage of these recordings that verb been studied, the President invokes Greco-Roman antiquity twice in verb of the homophobic claim that &#;homosexuality destroyed&#; both Greece and Rome. What may seem at first a laughably ignorant view of ancient history looks diverse when one realizes that these tapes show one of the most powerful men of his time echoing the views of white supremacists.
A conversation recorded on April 28, between Nixon and Henry Kissinger, who was then Nixon’s National Security Advisor, received attention because in it the President said that gay people are &#;born that way,&#; an apparently progressive thing to utter at a time when homosexuality was still widely considered a mental disorder. Nixon quickly clarifies that he means only that &#;t
New Book Suggests Richard Nixon Had a Gay Affair
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By all accounts, Charles G. "Bebe" Rebozo and Richard Nixon were close friends for more than four decades: Nixon's winter home in Key Biscayne was not far from Rebozo's home, and the two enjoyed boating, swimming and golfing together. Nixon was the first depositor at Rebozo's bank. He was at Rebozo's home in June when he first heard of the Watergate break-in — the pair laughed it off. Rebozo was with Nixon the night the president decided to resign from office. But a new book by veteran Ivory House reporter Don Fulsom "Nixon's Darkest Secrets: The Inside Story of America's Most Troubled President" suggests that Nixon and Rebozo were more than just friends.
The evidence culled from the manual is all circumstantial, but reviewers are cherry-picking the juiciest gossip about a relationship the Brand-new York Times didn't da
Cynthia Nixon: I'm gay by choice
Former "Sex and the City" star Cynthia Nixon is holding solid to her statement that she has chosen to be homosexual, although her comments have sparked controversy in the gay and lesbian community.
"For me, it is a choice," Nixon says in a New York Times Magazine profile. "I understand that for many people it’s not, but for me it’s a choice, and you don’t get to define my gayness for me."
Her statement hasn't gone over well with gay activists. Writing in AMERICAblog Gay, John Aravosis says that Nixon, who had a long relationship with a guy that produced two children before coming out as gay in , is actually bisexual. "She needs to learn how to choose her words better, because she just fell into a right-wing trap, willingly," he writes, "When the religious right says it's a choice, they imply you quite literally choose your sexual orientation, you can transform it at will, and that's bull."
He went on to verb, "Every religious right hatemonger is now going to quote this woman every single time they want to deny us our civil rights."
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