Eleanor Herman
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363 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 3 Jul
Eleanor Herman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And they spent several more days burning them, which led Congress to pass the Official Records Act that you cannot steal or damage or destroy documents.
any official records because there's actually very few left from the Harding administration.
She had burned them all just to make sure all the pornographic stuff was gone.
Well, let's just examine the story and how it came about.
When he was a young lawyer in Springfield, Illinois, he needed a couple of rooms to rent.
And he met a young man named Joshua Speed, and they became roommates.
And they slept in a single bed, which was amazing.
very customary for the time.
People didn't have their own space the way we do now.
If you were a man traveling and booked a bed in an inn, you might find two or three other people in the bed, complete strangers.
Now, that didn't mean you were having a gay orgy.
It just meant that's what the sleeping arrangements-
Kings and queens in Europe almost always had a member of the same sex, a lady-in-waiting or a gentleman of the bedchamber sleeping with them, if only for warmth in the winter.
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 books.
letters about him and his sexual relationship with Lincoln.
He never showed them.
He wrote a novel shortly afterward about this relationship.
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