Inside The Life Of Eisenhower's 'Mystery Man' — Smart, Efficient, Secretly Gay
Robert Cutler was President Dwight Eisenhower's right hand. He was also a closeted gay man who helped carry out a 1953 executive order to identify and remove gay employees from the federal government.
Jun 26, 2019
2 minutes
Robert Cutler was President Dwight Eisenhower’s right-hand man. The former Army general became a senior strategist and then the country’s first national security adviser.
He was also a closeted gay man who was actively executing a 1953 executive order to identify and remove gay employees from the federal government. That move caused not only disruption and persecution, but suicides.
‘s Robin Young talks with — Cutler’s nephew — as well as , who worked alongside Cutler.
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