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Sex and Dick Nixon
Those are two thoughts that one rarely has simultaneously. The late Dick Nixon is about the last politician one would ever imagine being linked to sexual indiscretions. Oh well, according to an article that just ran in a British newspaper, a new book, “Nixon’s Darkest Secrets” by Don Fulsom, might change our views of the strait-laced Richard Milhous Nixon. (sigh). Here’s more from the tabloidish Mail Online:
“A new biography by Don Fulsom, a veteran Washington reporter who covered the Nixon years, suggests the 37th U.S. President had a serious drink problem, beat his wife and — by the time he was inaugurated in 1969 — had links going back two decades to the Mafia, including with New Orleans godfather Carlos Marcello, then America’s most powerful mobster.
Yet the most extraordinary claim is that the homophobic Nixon may have been gay himself. If true, it would provide a fascinating insight into the motivation and behaviour of a notoriously secretive politician.
Fulsom argues that Nixon may have had an affair with his best friend and confidant, a Mafia‑connected Florida wheeler-dealer named Charles ‘Bebe’ Rebozo who was even more crooked than Nixon….”
Ouch! Dick Nixon was my favorite president. Call me astonished.
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By vick
December 29, 2011 11:17 AM | Link to this
Bruce, I said printable-not obscene. Big difference. Your assertions regarding the alleged sexual preferences of some rather obscure resident of Chicago has no relevance whatsoever to this discussion. And you wrote in a manner which I judged to be potentially objectionable to some of the other readers of this blog. Printable is what the moderator deems to be so. Your post didn’t pass what we call “the Wheaties test.” If a comment could cause some other readers to choke on their breakfast cereal it doesn’t get posted. Thank you, Bruce. Happy new year.
By bruce
December 29, 2011 5:22 AM | Link to this
Hogwash democratic Vick. There was nothing obscene about my post. You started it.
By SCOOP
December 28, 2011 5:22 PM | Link to this
If Mr. Fulsom did, in fact, cover the Nixon years, why did he wait so long to write his book? It is hardly fair to make such shocking allegations against people long after they are dead and in no position to defend themselves and set the record straight.
By vick
December 28, 2011 5:01 PM | Link to this
He was never called Dick? Look at the photo. He was clearly known by that name. That is a bag of marbles that was put out by the Republican slate of “Ike” Eisenhower and “Dick” Nixon” in 1952. He used the name extensively in his campaign materials over the years, from Congress to the White House.
By Dave
December 28, 2011 4:03 PM | Link to this
I am NOT a Nixon fan, but whether this “revelation” is true or false, I cannot see where it adds any understanding to the Nixon years. The book was probably not worth writing.
By null
December 28, 2011 3:53 PM | Link to this
he was never called dick.only richard.that i can recall over the years.
By null
December 28, 2011 11:40 AM | Link to this
Your favorite President? Awesome!!!!
By null
December 28, 2011 10:12 AM | Link to this
both are long gone and who cares.old news.move on
By vick
December 28, 2011 9:45 AM | Link to this
OK, we are getting some comments but none of them are printable. Clean them up please!~