His files to using get his way, often times, with politicians. Mansecond is of a secretive wearing a feather blower, sashaying around washington,. C. With his lover one of those is verifiable. Based on historical evidence. He other is not nevertheless it has become an irrepressible cultural meme rooted in innuendo, and supposition. It captured the two major hoover era of sessions. Ommunists and gays until now the fbi preoccupation with gays and the means a targeted gays have not been documented and examined only in limited ways. Public discourses over the fbi and gays center around the idea of a gay hoover targeting his own through overcompensation. We cannot know what his sexuality was unless we are willing to use stereotyping as evidence of a persons character or nature. Having no convincing evidence sexuality isovers a causal factor in explaining why is fbi targeted gaze for 40 targeted gays for 40 years is not helpful to understanding what the fbi did. Let me take you on a whirlwin
J edgar hoover. Two images come to mind. The first is the long serving fbi director with his vaunted files. Targeting communists and leftists. Using his files to get his way with politicians. Image is of a secretive man wearing a black cocktail dress and a feather boa and high heels with his secret lover, clyde tolson. One of those is verifiable. The other is not. An irrepressible cultural meme with innuendos and suppositions. They capture the two major hoover of sessions of communism and gays. The fbis preoccupation with gays, has not been very well documented and examined only in limited ways. Public discourse over the fbi and gays often center on the idea of a gay hoover targeting his own through some kind of overcompensation. The fact of the matter is we dont know. We cannot know what his sexuality was. Unless were willing to use stereotyping somehow as evidence. Not knowing and having no convincing evidence means hoovers sexuality is a causal factor in why the fbi targeted gays fo
Ending tonight for the missing played in asia. Is probably at the under the ocean. Reporter and owners of the raiders are now having a meeting with harbaugh this morning details coming up 7amm reporter the chilly monday morning you definitely need jackets. Reporter so live look at sfo right now the sfo g is trying to left fog is l ifting slowly. Livermore is 4043 right now is could get even colder. Which is the wind speeds from 20 to 30 mi. Per hour of tuesday through thursday. Reporter about the only slowed traffic were looking at right now is on highway 4 and leading over from port chicago highway. An accident get here for a while block the right in and laid that accident is not cleared from the lanes. It was about is slowing but the rest of the right looks much better than usual. Even at fourth and iraq in pittsburgh is just a fraction of the usual delay the to would normally find. Reporter the bay bridge west brower will look like the media lights will be turned off within this hou
Mike have care is a standing bailiff at the white house with more on this development. Mike, so it was a short debate in the house, right . Reporter yeah. Its simply its simply because republicans have given up at this point, john. They the writing has been on the without its a fate fait accompli, we have had a disspiritting end to the house e of representatives but a releaf to everyone else in this country. Everyone else and around the world certainly on wall street and in the tonight markets and if you are one of the 800,000 federal workers who have been furloughed as a result of whats happened over the course of last 17 days, certainly that is a relief to you. Of the last 24 for 48 hours. Clearly i believe that we have lost Mike Viqueiras live picture and well get back to him in a second. Lets go to capitol hill and libby casey is live there. Libby are you there . Reporter i am, john, i think here. Lets talk about the house debate tonight. Really it wasnt much of a debate. I think w
Tournament. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. 7 00 a. M. Out on the west coast. Morning. Andy murray said those final few moments of the match were the toughest of his life. They were the toughest for me to watch. He had 400 and then he faced three break points. He hoisted that trophy to a delighted crowd at wimbledon. We have new details on that frightening plane crash in california. The pilot had logged just 43 hours on a boeing 777. He had never landed at that airport before. Reporter good morning, matt. He was one of four pilots on board. He had about 10,000 hours total of flying time. A lot of different planes, including the 747. He had landed in other planes here. The ntfb is hoping to talk to him and other pilots today. We know the plane was coming low and slow. The socalled black boxes are shedding light on what happened in the final seconds of asiana flight 214. No indication of any problems until seconds before landing. At seven seconds before