Thursday, October 05, 2006

A Complex and Hidden Life Behind Foley’s Public Persona - New York Times

A Complex and Hidden Life Behind Foley’s Public Persona - New York Times: "“Miss Germany was my date,” he told a writer at Washingtonian magazine for an article about “How to Date a Congressman.”

It was one of the many hints Mr. Foley dropped to mask the realities of a deeply compartmentalized life. Over 12 years in Congress, he became extraordinarily adept at projecting a magnetic public persona — helped along by loyal aides and a sister he breezily called his surrogate wife — while conducting a private life fraught with more secrets than anyone imagined.

Whatever whispers there might have been about his sexuality — friends in South Florida and Washington knew Mr. Foley was gay but never discussed it with him — no one fathomed that he was sending sexually explicit e-mail messages to Congressional pages as young as 16, news of which led him to resign last week.

Mr. Foley’s subsequent confessions that he is an alcoholic and was molested by a clergyman as a teenager left friends even more stunned, and skeptical."

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