William Rogers, was a member of that Establishment, a former colleague of Tom Dewey’s, a legal adviser to the Washington Post. He had also been a confidant of Nixon’s since the 1940s—the man Nixon had gone to for advice on how to handle the Establishment during his slow, soiling humiliations. Perhaps that was why Nixon singled out his secretary of state for systematic humiliation again and again. Kissinger was glad to oblige—once spreading the rumor that Rogers was a “fag” who kept a hot, young stud in a Georgetown town house.
