Caffeinated Politics

Using two examples from American history, one from 1832 and the other from 1904, the question is raised about what happens when young men who form emotional connections with other young men are not allowed to blossom and come to fruition. We can only imagine what the lives of Henry Ward Beecher, and John Foster Dulles would have been, or how their views about life would have changed, and our history, too, if they had been able to pursue the young loves that they experienced.