Scandal destroys Hoover and McCarthy

In OTL there were rumours that both Joe McCarthy and J Edgar Hoover were gay.

If the general public believed that it would of course have been pretty bad for their careers

There was however an even more devastating rumour around relating to Joe McCarthy.

It was that he had sexual relations with young girls. It was also said that Hoover had files about this. This is mentined in Curt Gentry's biography of Hoover.

I should say that as a matter of fact in OTL I believe that Hoover likely had a gay orientation though I have no idea whether he did anything with them. I do not know about McCarthy's sexuality.


However suppose things happened to make most Americans

a) Believe the more devastating rumour re McCarthy

b) That Hoover knew of this and ensured that nothing was done.

Just how huge an impact would that have had?
 
other rumours about Joe McCarthy and J Edgar Hoover

that Joe McCarthy was a KGB Communists agent !
afte this rumours, McCarthy lost massive money in poker games, around $200000 in 1948 (today 2 mio dollar !)
after discreetly visit to Sovjet Embassy, McCarthy start to pay his debt

Ted Morgan used this rumor for his AH essay "Joe McCarthy's secret life"
publish in "Wat if?: America"

a real fact is that he was a Alcoholic (he died of Alcoholic hepatitis 1957)
wat happend to his anti-communist pursuits. ("McCarthyism") if had became public he is a Alcoholic ?

A massive lost of Credibility "if drunk, he don't see pink Elephants but Red Communists everywhere" :D
the "McCarthyism" had implode, leaving back a J Edgar Hoover and Robert M. Nixon without Credibility
Nixon never had the chance for Vize-President and Eisenhower take another men for this.
an a lot of "communist" like Charlie Chaplin were free of the suspicion

other rumour on J Edgar Hoover
that he was of African American orgin !
African American author Millie McGhee[34] claims in her 2000 book Secrets Uncovered to be related to J. Edgar Hoover.[35] McGhee's oral family history holds that a branch of her Mississippi family, also named Hoover, is related to the Washington, D.C., Hoovers, and that further, J. Edgar's father was not Dickerson Hoover as recorded, but rather Ivery Hoover of Mississippi. Genealogist George Ott investigated these claims and found some supporting circumstantial evidence, as well as unusual alterations of records pertaining to Hoover's officially recorded family in Washington, D.C., but found no conclusive proof. J. Edgar Hoover's birth certificate was not filed until 1938, when he was 43 years old.
from Wiki

if had those rumors, he was homosexual made public, with evidence like Picture
it had be the End of J.E. Hoover career, the Presidents like Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson
wandet to fire Hoover from Office...

so a F.B.I with out J Edgar Hoover ?
means no COINTELPRO ! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
a stop to the FBI for other illegal activities, such as burglaries, illegal wiretaps, Threatening and blackmail.

the Civil Right Movement had work free in US without threat and oppression by F.B.I
also no assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr - if this was plot by F.B.I. ?

the Mafia and Syndicate were on focus by F.B.I. (after J.E. Hoover there was no so a thing like a organized crime network)
the crackdown of this crime network had start year earler than in OTL

the FBI investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. had be very differently as in OTL.

so without J Edgar Hoover and Joe McCarthy
the United Staates of America had developed to more free and liberal Society (with less crime?)
with polical left parties in US Congress like "Liberty Party" or "Black movment" even a US Communists Party!
were Charlie Chaplin is a US citizens and life and make Movies in Hollywood.
and maybe Martin Luther King, Jr as US-president.
 
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