David T. Beito
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first heard Jun 2026
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In my childhood, for example, I saw, you know, he was sort of a hero of my parents in many ways.
Oh, well, there are a lot of examples.
I don't think the Newport scandal is well known.
There's been a little bit of writing about it.
Well, this occurred while FDR was assistant secretary of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson.
And there was this guy that he was investigating.
He was a naval officer.
He was investigating same-sex relationships in the Navy, right, and trying to force out gays, essentially.
from the Navy.
This investigation was going nowhere, not even the Attorney General, who was no great civil libertarian.
Mr. Palmer was interested in funding it, but FDR found out, and he was very supportive of the investigation and took the lead role in it.
And he headed a unit in the Navy called Section A.
And that was their mission.
And what did they do?
Well, to root out same-sex relationships, they actually sent in people, spies, basically, to have these relationships with people, to catch them.
So it was just that just struck me when I said they really did that.
Yes, they really did do that.
This was too much even for the period.
This is not a very gay friendly period, but there was big pushback against this.
And when it was found out and a lot of people was headline news in The New York Times and a lot of people predicted that it was going to end FDR's career.
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