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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Nov 2014
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      34. I'll should say that popular accounts of Hoover as cross-dresser are based on untrustworthy sources.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Nov 2014
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      35. But discounting the outre crossing-dressing stories, there's plenty of reasons to think Hoover was deeply repressed gay man.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Nov 2014
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      36. Hoover's self-repression is politically interesting because it can be tied in with his racism and anti-radicalism.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Nov 2014
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      37. Black militancy, open gayness (and sexual openness), radicalism: for Hoover, all these had to be repressed.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Nov 2014
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      38. Read the poison pen letter Hoover's underling William Sullivan wrote to King: reeks of visceral disgust at sex: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html?_r=2&referrer= …

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Nov 2014
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      39. In the imagination of White supremacy, blackness is linked to lewdness and a dangerous sexual openness.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Nov 2014
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      40. During various Red Scares, Hoover and others repeatedly linked communism with with homosexuality.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Nov 2014
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      41, In MLK, Hoover saw a person who brought together everything he hated: black militancy, sexual openness, political radicalism.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Nov 2014
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      42. Sexual repression was political for Hoover because it was the source of his power.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Nov 2014
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      43. Hoover could keep a lid on his sexual impulses. Other men (FDR, JFK, LBJ) couldn't. That gave Hoover leverage to blackmail them.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Nov 2014

      44. Hoover must have been enraged by the fact that King wouldn't allow himself to be blackmailed (le mot juste) & defied Hoover.

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        2. Mark Kawada‏ @Mark_Kawada 13 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet can you recommend any biographies?

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Nov 2014
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          @Mark_Kawada Richard Gid Powers's Secret and Power.

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        1. Matthew E‏ @MatthewElmslie 13 Nov 2014
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          @HeerJeet Ever read _The Doorbell Rang_? Rex Stout? Nero Wolfe mystery novel that takes on the FBI and Hoover.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Nov 2014
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          45. Perhaps the final thing to remember is that Hoover, monstrous though he was, was a product of bipartisan national security state.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Nov 2014
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          46. Liberal presidents from FDR onward allowed Hoover to amass power: they valued his ability to collect secrets & repress the left.

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