BY CLIFF DUNN

A new biography by former White House reporter Don Fulsom claims that former President Richard Nixon had a homosexual relationship with a close friend suspected of underworld ties. “Nixon’s Darkest Secrets: The Inside Story of America’s Most Troubled President” offers what the author claims is strong evidence of Nixon’s gay relationship with Miami businessman and reputed Mafia associate Charles “Bebe” Rebozo.

In the tell-all bio Fulsom, a former United Press International Washington bureau chief, writes that Tricky Dick maintained mob ties for over two decades prior to his election as president in 1968. Fulsom claims that Nixon’s ties to Rebozo were more than business-related.
The book claims that Nixon and Rebozo, a playboy believed by the feds to have laundered money for mob bosses in Florida and Cuba, swam, spent their time together sunbathing and frolicking at the president’s private sanctuary, the Winter White House on Key Biscayne.
Fulsom, who also covered the Johnson, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton presidencies for UPI, writes that a Washington reporter once spotted a drunken Nixon snuggling with Rebozo “the way you’d cuddle your senior prom date.” The two were also seen holding hands under a table during a dinner with Washington insiders.

The book is based on Fulson’s years of covering the White House for UPI, as well as interviews with former White House staffers, friends of Nixon and his wife, and former members of Congress.

Nixon’s friendship with Rebozo was a matter of record for years, and Fulsom claims that some Washington insiders believed the two were much more than friends until the time of Nixon’s death in 1994.

White House aides claimed that Rebozo was nothing more than “the guy who mixed the martinis,” but the Cuban-American businessman, who died in 1998, was by Nixon’s side until the end.

In addition to engaging in the “love that dares not speak its name,” the book alleges that the 37th president drank liquor copiously, earning the nickname “Our Drunk” from his own staff in the process, and abused his wife, First Lady Pat Nixon. Fulsom writes that behind closed doors, Nixon called his wife a “f—— b—-” and physically abused her before, during and after his presidency.