Dr. Kate Lister

It was usually so cold. So that's the story. They had a lifelong friendship. And then in 1999, a gay activist and historian named Larry Kramer claimed that he had dug up Speed's diary and all of these salacious letters about him and his sexual relationship with Lincoln. He never showed them. And he wrote a novel shortly afterward about this relationship.

I think he was just doing this hoax to sell his novel. Now, if anyone found this material, that should be a nonfiction work, which would sell millions of copies. So I think that it's just a hoax.

I think he was just doing this hoax to sell his novel. Now, if anyone found this material, that should be a nonfiction work, which would sell millions of copies. So I think that it's just a hoax.

I think he was just doing this hoax to sell his novel. Now, if anyone found this material, that should be a nonfiction work, which would sell millions of copies. So I think that it's just a hoax.

Yeah, they were roommates and good friends. I just, I don't see it as being a... a gay relationship, especially, you know, and the rumors didn't really come out until this man said he found the diary that he never showed anybody.

Yeah, they were roommates and good friends. I just, I don't see it as being a... a gay relationship, especially, you know, and the rumors didn't really come out until this man said he found the diary that he never showed anybody.

Yeah, they were roommates and good friends. I just, I don't see it as being a... a gay relationship, especially, you know, and the rumors didn't really come out until this man said he found the diary that he never showed anybody.

No, and you know, I don't blame him to tell you the truth. I mean, that wasn't a situation like with Harding or with JFK, where they were just sexually depraved.

No, and you know, I don't blame him to tell you the truth. I mean, that wasn't a situation like with Harding or with JFK, where they were just sexually depraved.

No, and you know, I don't blame him to tell you the truth. I mean, that wasn't a situation like with Harding or with JFK, where they were just sexually depraved.

FDR, you know, he married, he was a wealthy socialite in New England and New York, and he married Eleanor Roosevelt, who was a distant cousin of his, because, you know, she was just very intelligent and very serious and not like the flighty debutantes. But soon after the wedding... They realized they were just very poorly suited to one another. He loved sex. She hated it.

FDR, you know, he married, he was a wealthy socialite in New England and New York, and he married Eleanor Roosevelt, who was a distant cousin of his, because, you know, she was just very intelligent and very serious and not like the flighty debutantes. But soon after the wedding... They realized they were just very poorly suited to one another. He loved sex. She hated it.

FDR, you know, he married, he was a wealthy socialite in New England and New York, and he married Eleanor Roosevelt, who was a distant cousin of his, because, you know, she was just very intelligent and very serious and not like the flighty debutantes. But soon after the wedding... They realized they were just very poorly suited to one another. He loved sex. She hated it.

He liked feminine, frilly women. With each year, she seemed to be getting a bit more masculine in her appearance and tastes. He had a great sense of humor. She had absolutely no sense of humor. And so over time, he fell in love with Eleanor's social secretary, Lucy Mercer, and they had an affair. And what happened was Eleanor found out and said, I'm going to divorce you.

He liked feminine, frilly women. With each year, she seemed to be getting a bit more masculine in her appearance and tastes. He had a great sense of humor. She had absolutely no sense of humor. And so over time, he fell in love with Eleanor's social secretary, Lucy Mercer, and they had an affair. And what happened was Eleanor found out and said, I'm going to divorce you.

He liked feminine, frilly women. With each year, she seemed to be getting a bit more masculine in her appearance and tastes. He had a great sense of humor. She had absolutely no sense of humor. And so over time, he fell in love with Eleanor's social secretary, Lucy Mercer, and they had an affair. And what happened was Eleanor found out and said, I'm going to divorce you.

And he was very happy to divorce Eleanor, despite all of the children they had by that time. But his mother wanted him to become president and said, And she controlled the purse strings in the family. She said, you know, I'm never going to give you another dime. You're going to ruin your political career. So it was a political marriage from that point out. Eleanor never had sex with him again.

And he was very happy to divorce Eleanor, despite all of the children they had by that time. But his mother wanted him to become president and said, And she controlled the purse strings in the family. She said, you know, I'm never going to give you another dime. You're going to ruin your political career. So it was a political marriage from that point out. Eleanor never had sex with him again.

And he was very happy to divorce Eleanor, despite all of the children they had by that time. But his mother wanted him to become president and said, And she controlled the purse strings in the family. She said, you know, I'm never going to give you another dime. You're going to ruin your political career. So it was a political marriage from that point out. Eleanor never had sex with him again.

And he soon started having an affair with his secretary, Missy LeHand. And then Lucy comes back into his life after he becomes president. She was actually with him the day he died in 1945. And Eleanor was aware of it and had, you know, had her own relationships. But it was a love story. Well, she had a gay affair with a woman named Hick, who was a reporter for a few years.