A truthful memoir would require more than one point of view. Even Churchill was blinded. It is hard for the Ego to evaluate itself- it is tempting to make excuses.
On Mar 24, 6:42�pm, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]> wrote: > I was unaware that Roy Cohn had dated Barbara Walters, but apparently, when > writing the book, "Citizen Cohn", �Nicholas von Hoffman documented the > "tryst" in an interview when he was promoting the book. � (Hoffman was the > original liberal debater on "60 Minutes" �Point-Counterpoint segment years > ago, before prior to Shana "Jane You Ignorant Slut" Alexander.) > > If you have never seen the HBO Movie, "Citizen Cohn" starring James Woods, > it is a "must see" and Woods does a stellar job of capturing Cohn's > "obsessive-compulsive" personality. > > At the Army-McCarthy hearings: Schine is �holding up a picture of himself, a > lowly private, being flattered with the attentions of Army Secretary > Stevens, clear "evidence" that Ike's administration was toadying to Private > Schine so he'd use his influence with Mc Carthy to "go easy" in pursuing > Commie infiltration in the Army. Right. > > �I couldn't find a pic of Cohn with "girlfriend" Barbara Walters. At any > rate, below is some quips from Barbara Walters' recent "Kiss & Tell" book, > where she documents that she and Cohn did in fact date. > > =========== > > *Barbara Walters: Why I Was Roy Cohn's Beard * > * > *http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2008/05/barbara-walters-why-i-was-roy-co... > > In an interview promoting her new memoir, Audition, Barbara Walters tells > the San Francisco Chronicle about her relationship with Roy Cohn, the most > despised gay man in American history, explaining why she allowed Cohn to > pose as her boyfriend. > > Many of Walters' other friends were horrified that she would even talk to > Cohn, but what Walters reveals for the first time in "Audition" is that Cohn > somehow got a warrant for her father's arrest dismissed. He had failed to > show up for a New York court date because the family was in Las Vegas at the > time. > > Cohn liked to hint that they were more than friends "because I was his claim > to heterosexuality," Walters says. "He never said that he was gay, he never > admitted to me that he had AIDS. He was a very complicated man. He died, > alone, up to his ears in debt. He had been disbarred and he was hated. And I > might have thought the same way, but he did something when my father was in > trouble, [and] I never forgot that." > > Loyalty, she says, means everything to her. "I still have many of the same > friends I had when I was younger," she says. > > Did Cohn have a secret "nice" side? > > "I would not use the word nice," she laughs. "He was very smart. And funny. > And, at the time, seemed to know everyone in New York. He was very friendly > with the cardinal, he was very friendly with the most famous columnist in > New York, Walter Winchell, he had a lot of extremely powerful friends."Some > background for the youngin's who somehow may not know who Roy Cohn was: > > When he was 24, as Assistant District Attorney of Manhattan, Cohn's > eviscerating questioning of nuclear scientists Ethel and Julius Rosenberg > was widely credited with their espionage convictions. In his autobiography, > Cohn claimed that the judge imposed the death penalty on the Rosenbergs on > his recommendation. The actual guilt of the Rosenbergs (Ethel, in > particular) remains a topic of great debate. Cohn's performance in the trial > led FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to recommend him to Sen. Joseph McCarthy. > > As McCarthy's chief counsel during the communist witch hunts of the 1950's, > Cohn and his boss called hundreds of government employees to testify before > a Senate subcommittee on accusations of communism, espionage, and > homosexuality. (That subcommittee continues to operate today as part of the > Senate Committee On Homeland Security.) Thanks to Cohn's vicious > interrogations, many of these gay people lost their jobs, homes, and > families. This was all done with Cohn's purported lover G. David Schine, a > handsome young lawyer, working at his side as an unpaid consultant. (Some > historians say Cohn was merely infatuated with Schine and that they were not > sexually involved.) > > After Schine was drafted by the Army and was in danger of being sent to > Korea, Cohn attempted to intervene and get Schine a safer assignment. He > then accused the Army of holding Schine "hostage" unless Cohn ended his > investigation of communist infiltration of the armed services. The hearings > into Cohn's allegations backfired (with Senators snickering that Schine was > a "fairy"), resulting in Cohn's resignation and McCarthy's later censure by > the Senate, effectively ending the witch hunts. > > In his private practice over the next 30 years, during which he often > defended mafia bosses, Cohn also lobbied strongly against homosexual rights, > all while visiting gay clubs and chasing "muscle men." One of his last acts > was to work against NYC's gay rights ordinance. Cohn's death from AIDS in > 1986 was immortalized by playwright Tony Kushner in his Pulitzer Prize and > Tony Award winning play, Angels In America. (Cohn was also a character in > Kushner's lesser known play, G. David Schine In Hell.) > > Previous to this revelation about his helping her father, Barbara Walters' > devotion to Roy Cohn had been explained as gratitude for his role in the > adoption of her daughter. You have to wonder how Walters managed to have a > such a successful career in journalism while being lifelong friends with > such a famously evil person. > > �8-54 David and Roy at the Stork Club.jpg > 115KViewDownload > > �schine_and_stevens.jpg > 89KViewDownload > > �RoyCohn.jpg > 40KViewDownload > > �Woods.CitizenCohn..jpg > 37KViewDownload > > �barbara_walters.jpg > 17KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
