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New Book Suggests Richard Nixon Had a Lgbtq+ 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 abode 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 novel by veteran White Property 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 book is all circumstantial, but reviewers are cherry-picking the juiciest gossip about a relationship the Brand-new York Times didn't da
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Richard Nixon was many things — crafty, criminal, self-pitying, vengeful, paranoid. But gay?
According to a publication 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 collective photo at a Florida restaurant and hold his hand for “upwards of a minute.”
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