Richard Nixon's secret gay lover!!!

A new bio of Richard Nixon is coming out next month that claims he has a longtime gay lover; a Cuban mafioso no less!

Don’t know anything about this book or the claims that it makes, but the claim itself sounds so bizarre, I’m just going to have to check it out.

I do suspect though, that it will likely amount to nothing more than a passing “undisclosed sources alleged that rumors about Nixon & Rebozo hinted that there was something more than a close friendship.” And that this claim is just being trumpeted as an advance publicity-churner. Still, the idea is fascinating. Normally, I don’t buy into the notion that every person who did anything noteworthy in history was a closet homosexual, but Nixon was so paranoically secretive about so many things, it almost fits.

I hear Nixon used to watch gay porn films very attentively, but only because he wanted to get it down pat.

I don’t know about “secret gay lover” but there were rumors the two of them would blindfold each other, slip into the White House pool and one would holler out “Bebe!” while the other answered with “Rebozo!”

Ouch.

Rebozo?! Not Ford?!

I remember a National Lampoon “Young Love” comic book parody that had the whole Nixon White House as a gay bathhouse, with John Dean as the wide-eyed ingenue.

What did you think Nixon meant when he ordered them to “Stonewall it”?!

Rebozo and Nixon were certainly very tight, but there’s even less evidence that they were gay lovers than there is that J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson were - that is to say, none at all. From all I’ve ever read, R&N were just really good pals.

Dude, Hoover left a collection of pix of Tolson sleeping. Pick another example.

Did not know that.

I always thought that it was very strange that Nixon had friend. That he had a name that sounded like a clown made it even better.

Sounds pretty lightweight to me-the whole quote is that Nixon ‘may have…’ If the teaser is that limp, the rest is gonna go over like a Robin Williams movie.
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Like Charles Manson said when he was asked if he was crazy- “Used to be ‘gay’ used to mean something- Nowadays, everybody’s gay.”

We’ve been over the Hoover/Tolson relationship many times here. Even the photos - which I’ve heard mention of, but have never seen - don’t mean they were gay lovers.

Well, I’m getting that from an NPR story about the movie J. Edgar, and the commentator also noted that, then-and-there, if such a relationship ever were consummated, it would be over – not an inflexible rule, but the way it usually went in Washington in the 1920s-50s.

Eve did you mean to say “get it down pat” or"get it down Pat"? Because there’s quite a bit of conjecture a dirty minded person could imagine.:smiley:
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Whoosh…

Hell, Hoover had pictures of everyone. He had info on Eleanor Roosevelt’s affair, should he need to get her or FDR to behave for him.

Indeed.

In J. Edgar, Hoover has what he thinks is evidence of Eleanor Roosevelt’s affair. With a man. He does not find out about her lesbianism until, IIRC, long after FDR’s death.

I’ve read that:

She had affairs with both men AND women