WI: All of Hoover’s blackmail files are leaked posthumously.

elkarlo

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"One of America's best-known first ladies and her alleged lovers, both male and female, white and black" is Eleanor Roosevelt.
Thought she had a pretty steady affair.

Is there a source on her sleeping with men? Also if she slept with a black person at that time, that'd be a pretty big scandal. Possibly the largest one in hoovers files
 

Redcoat

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Thought she had a pretty steady affair.

Is there a source on her sleeping with men? Also if she slept with a black person at that time, that'd be a pretty big scandal. Possibly the largest one in hoovers files
These are the times of the Lavender Scare, the 50s were a scary time to be gay so I'd say they'd be more upset about her having a female lover.
 
Is there a source on her sleeping with men? Also if she slept with a black person at that time, that'd be a pretty big scandal. Possibly the largest one in hoovers files
Eleanor Roosevelt had a long-lasting, "romantic" relationship with her bodyguard Earl Miller, and was alleged to be involved with a couple other men at other times (Harry Hopkins, a New Deal administrator; and David Gurewitsch, her physician).

But the original quote about Hoover's dealings suggested that he wasn't simply amassing facts, but any and all sordid gossip, rumours and allegations that floated around; what mattered wasn't that it was true, but that it was damaging. So whether or not Eleanor Roosevelt actually slept with the men and women she was romantically involved with, or if she even had any scandalous relationship with an African American person isn't the point, it's whether such things would have seemed possible.
 
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