Comedian Jay Leno keeps hammering on Hoover's coffin with references to
his cross-dressing, but there's much more to Summers' research. Hoover is
depicted as perhaps the most powerful politician in Washington, feared by
every president who served over him. The only players who were immune to
Hoover's secret files were those who had secrets of their own about his
personal life -- namely, the Mafia. Hoover's homosexuality was known to the
Mafia, who apparently had photographs, and Hoover's frequent gambling
junkets were paid by his Mafia friends. Meanwhile, Hoover's anti-Communism
was self-serving. "If it were not for me," Hoover is quoted as saying in
1963, "there would not be a Communist Party of the United States. Because
I've financed the Communist Party, in order to know what they are doing."
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