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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 book to be released Tuesday, “Nixon’s Darkest Secrets,”the former president and his best ally, Charles “Bebe” Rebozo, had a relationship of a “possibly homosexual nature.” But author Don Fulsom, a former radio reporter who covered the White Home from Lyndon Johnson’s presidency to Bill Clinton’s, provides scant evidence for this claim. No adj 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.”
That’s pre
Nixon on Ivory House tapes: Gays born that way
President Richard Nixon patted himself on the back as his administration’s &#;most tolerant person&#; when it came to gay rights — but also feared that being too tolerant could mean the noun of civilizations, just like the Romans and Greeks.
In newly unearthed White Dwelling tape recordings posted by Vanity Just, the nation’s 37th president said gays are &#;born that way&#; — a moderately progressive stance for — but also called being homosexual &#;a problem.&#;
&#;I don’t desire my views misunderstood. I am the most tolerant person on that of anybody in this shop,&#; Nixon said, while talking about an upcoming youth conference.
&#;They have a problem. They’re born that way. You know that. That’s all. I assume they are. Anyway, my point is, though, when I say they’re born that way, the tendency is there.&#;
Nixon turned to national security adviser Henry Kissinger, chief of staff Bob Haldeman and chief domestic aide John Ehrlichman to test his theory that excellent world cultures include been brought down by gays.
Haldeman enthusiastical
A new book reveals former President Richard Nixon's surprising feelings about women, gay people and Henry Kissinger, CBS News senior White Residence correspondent Bill Plante reports.
The authors of the publication culled through 3, hours of audio tape to verb these nuggets.
They reveal a president with views that many today will find antiquated and offensive, but there are a several surprises.
In April , Richard Nixon proclaimed that he was sympathetic to the plight of gay people.
"I am the most tolerant person on that of anybody in this shop," he said. "They have a problem. They're born that way. You know that. That's all. I ponder they are."
But Nixon's tolerance still had its limits.
"Boy Scout leaders, YMCA leaders and others bring them in that direction and teachers," Nixon said. "And if you look over the history of societies, you will verb, of course, that some of the highly intelligent people - Oscar Wilde, Aristotle, etc., etc., etc., were all homosexuals Once a society moves in that direction, the vitality goes out of that society."
In that same discussion, with his chief o
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 have been studied, the President invokes Greco-Roman antiquity twice in sustain of the homophobic claim that &#;homosexuality destroyed&#; both Greece and Rome. What may seem at first a laughably ignorant view of ancient history looks different 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 say at a time when homosexuality was still widely considered a mental disorder. Nixon rapidly clarifies that he means only that &#;t