It can claim all it likes. From the article, it seems most of the interesting stuff is speculation.

So Bebe Rebozo was Deep Throat?

That's like saying John Wayne was gay. It doesn't even sound like English.

So he liked it curvy?

It all makes sense. He showed a lot of rage, conflict and petty paranoia, much like a man struggling with his own sexuality.

Mugato: Queering out guys after they're dead is really uncool. It's uncool in general but especially after they're dead.

Nixon was a public figure. There will also be research into him and his past and new things will always come to light.

/although i wouldn't of fark'd him with Hoovers dick.
//not a fan of outing people when they are alive

America's Most Corrupt President

Woodrow Wilson would like to have a word with you.

Oh, there's always some new book claiming *something*.
What about all the claims of the old books? Are they no longer valid?
Shall we silence them like steam hammer silences a butterfly?

Also, all these checkboxes and thingies are making me dizzy.

hogans: That's like saying John Wayne was gay. It doesn't even sound like English.

John Wayne was a completely made up persona. Wouldn't surprise me if he liked to wear chaps with nothing else on and be ridden by the team of stable boys he kept at the ranch.

imontheinternet: America's Most Corrupt President

Woodrow Wilson would like to have a word with you.

Barack Obama would like a word with you.

Hogwash.

Nixon's number-one weakness was power; authority was the only thing that turned him on.

As for the drinking, he couldn't hold his liquor, and a couple of cocktails would make him sloppy. He held no political beliefs at all, except belief in himself; he would be liberal or conservative, depending on what got the votes.

Author of TFA is risking the wrath of Robot Nixon.

/May death come swiftly for his enemies..

HE WAS ADDICTED TO UPPERS

He couldn't be as gay as these new "smart"/"funny" tags.

bravian: hogans: That's like saying John Wayne was gay. It doesn't even sound like English.

John Wayne was a completely made up persona. Wouldn't surprise me if he liked to wear chaps with nothing else on and be ridden by the team of stable boys he kept at the ranch.

Clara Bow would disagree.

As previously noted, the rumors about Nixon have been around forever. Anybody remember Roy Cohn?

AlanSmithee Very good, now get off my lawn.

bravian: hogans: That's like saying John Wayne was gay. It doesn't even sound like English.

John Wayne was a completely made up persona. Wouldn't surprise me if he liked to wear chaps with nothing else on and be ridden by the team of stable boys he kept at the ranch.

Which would be cool if he lived at a ranch. He lived in Newport Beach and liked to sail

hogans: That's like saying John Wayne was gay. It doesn't even sound like English.



/sure looks English

That coward David Lopan: He couldn't be as gay as these new "smart"/"funny" tags.

I voted yours as the smartest and funniest comment.

The problem here is that the book is being sold on the premise of something scandalous. "Oooh! Look! Richard Nixon. Watergate. Liked the cawk." So what? We live in a time where it shouldn't matter what your sexual preference is or was. It shouldn't be a big surprise that so-and-so was a secret ghey, or so-and-so liked drug fueled orgies, or whatever some other public figure's proclivities are/were. You and I no doubt have done/are doing things right now that would make the conservative public blush. So what? So long as we treat each other decently, do unto others as we would have done to us, and respect the privacy of others where there is no harm to society, then the rest shouldn't matter.

Richard Nixon should be railed against for a host of other things that he did while alive, not because he may or may not have liked the occasional comfort of another penis.

/and outing someone after they're dead is pretty low

Loucifer: So Bebe Rebozo was Deep Throat?


QnD

And Johnson would hold the ears when getting a BJ while getting pounded from behind...

It kinda puts this gag-reel video from WNBC News in the mid-seventies in a whole new light.

This nation can't stand Pat. (new window)

an old friend's family had a beach house right near Nixon's western white-house in San Clemente.
ol' Dick once asked if he could borrow his boogie-board

/sounds gay

Cubs300: /and outing someone after they're dead is pretty low

It would have been better to do so when he was alive?

Like you said, we're at a point in history where being "out" isn't the reputation-destroyer that it was 40 years ago. If it were true (and who's to say?) it would lend some insight into Nixon's psychology and particularly his social conservatism and homophobia. And if it's not a big deal to be gay anymore, then this isn't really character assassination.

Meanwhile, he's dead. We could publish proof positive that he was straight as an arrow and he'd still be dead. In death, all things are fair.

Having sex with men isn't enough to sell a book these days, you have to claim he enjoyed sex with aardvarks.

Vinen: imontheinternet: America's Most Corrupt President

Woodrow Wilson would like to have a word with you.

Barack Obama would like a word with you.

LOL this is stupid.

strapp3r: hogans: That's like saying John Wayne was gay. It doesn't even sound like English.

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/sure looks English

Wasn't John Wayne a draft dodger? Because he wanted to be a movie star. It's ironic really.

totally believe it. Nixon was probably not gay. what turned him on was power. So he had a mafia pretty boy lover. He also probably wanked off to pictures of Kruschev

he did have a fisting fetish...

hogans: That's like saying John Wayne was gay. It doesn't even sound like English.

LeroyBourne: Wasn't John Wayne a draft dodger? Because he wanted to be a movie star. It's ironic really.

Marion Morrison got turned away because his name sounded too gay.

hogans: That's like saying John Wayne was gay. It doesn't even sound like English.

Or Rock Hudson.

It's an immutable truth of history: if you're famous enough for long enough, eventually someone will write a book claiming you were gay.

strapp3r: hogans: That's like saying John Wayne was gay. It doesn't even sound like English.

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/sure looks English


WHERE'S YOUR GODS NOW?

or Burt Lancaster

He carpet-bombed Cambodia, spewed out anti-Semitic slurs and crude misogynistic jokes in the White House and smeared his political opponents with ruthless 'dirty tricks' campaigns.

And, of course, he lied to his country about his involvement in the Watergate scandal and went down in history as America's shiftiest, darkest President.

And pulled us out of Vietnam where Kennedy and Johnson couldn't/wouldn't.

And opened China which took the heat of two Communist adversaries off the US.

Oh, and BTW signed Strategic Arms Limitation Talks 1 with the Soviet Union.

Yes, he was a scoundrel but it is amazing how much he did that people don't know, forget or try to spin away.

Vinen: imontheinternet: America's Most Corrupt President

Woodrow Wilson would like to have a word with you.

Barack Obama would like a word with you.

Rutherford B Hayes would like a word with you.

Nixon was a much better gay president than George W. Bush was ...

According to the "Mail" comments, this is pure "hippie/leftist/liberal/marxist/socialist/communist" propaganda. Cue crying Britney defender.