Former US president Richard Nixon had a gay affair with his best friend, a Mafia-connected Florida wheeler-dealer named Charles \u2018Bebe\u2019 Rebozo, according to a new biography by Don Fulsom.<\/p>\nFormer US president Richard Nixon had a gay affair with his best friend, a Mafia-connected Florida wheeler-dealer named Charles \u2018Bebe\u2019 Rebozo, according to a new biography by Don Fulsom.<\/p>\n
Fulsom, a veteran Washington reporter who covered the Nixon years, also insists that 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\u2019s most powerful mobster.<\/p>\n
Bebe Rebozo was a short, swarthy, good-looking Cuban-American businessman with a history of failed relationships with women and close alliances with Miami\u2019s Mafia chiefs, the Daily Mail reported.ulsom has used recently revealed documents and eyewitness interviews including with FBI agents to shed new light on long-standing doubts among White House insiders that Nixon may have been a more than just good pal with Rebozo.<\/p>\n
He asserts that Nixon\u2019s relationship with Pat, his wife of 53 years, was little more than a pretence. A heavy drinker whom his own staff dubbed \u2018Our Drunk\u2019, Nixon used to call his First Lady a \u2018f***ing bitch\u2019 and hit her before, during and after his presidency.<\/p>\n
The couple had separate bedrooms at the White House and in Key Biscayne, the exclusive resort near Miami where Nixon holidayed. Mrs Nixon did not even used to sleep in the same building, however Rebozo, was in the house next door.<\/p>\n
Fulsom also claims that one of Nixon\u2019s former military aides had a covert job \u2018to teach the President how to kiss his wife\u2019 so that they would look like a convincing couple.
\nFulsom has quoted a former Time magazine reporter who, at a Washington dinner, bent down to pick up a fork and saw the two holding hands under the table.
\nIt was, the reporter judged, amply intimate to suggest \u2018repressed homosexuality\u2019.<\/p>\n
Another journalist revealed how, loosened up by drink, Nixon once put his arm around Rebozo \u2018the way you\u2019d cuddle your senior prom date. Something was fishy there\u2019.
\nRebozo even became an \u2018uncle figure\u2019 to the Nixons\u2019 two daughters, Tricia and Julie. The dapper Cuban-American selected Nixon\u2019s clothes and even selected the films he watched at the White House.<\/p>\n
On Nixon\u2019s solo visits to Key Biscayne, they swam and sunbathed, indulging in their shared passions for discussing Broadway musicals and barbecuing steaks.
\nWhen Nixon became President, Rebozo was given his own office and bedroom at the White House, and a security clearance that permitted him to go in and out without being logged by the secret service.<\/p>\n
Using a false name, says Fulsom, Rebozo even got into Nixon\u2019s hotel suite during a trip to Europe.
\nThe President\u2019s closest colleagues criticized the way Rebozo monopolised Nixon\u2019s time.<\/p>\n
The book, Nixon\u2019s Darkest Secrets: The Inside Story Of America\u2019s Most Troubled President will be out on January 31, 2012. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former US president Richard Nixon had a gay affair with his best friend, a Mafia-connected Florida wheeler-dealer named Charles \u2018Bebe\u2019 Rebozo, according to a new biography by Don Fulsom. Fulsom, a veteran Washington reporter who covered the Nixon years, also insists that the 37th U.S. President had a serious drink problem, beat his wife and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}