Yep. His apologists can rationalize it anyway they want, but his relationship with Tolson was unnatural.
He would be sick if he could see the cancer infesting our White House and Federal Government today.
Eisenhower was so concerned about homos in governments and their vulnerability to be blackmailed—the ‘lavender scare—that in ‘53 he got Congress to pass a law prohibiting homosexuals from federal employment.
An irony was that one of the prime movers behind it was McCarthy’s head commie-hunter, a youthful Roy Cohn who was probably carrying on with another investigator, David Schine. Cohn died in the ‘80s at age 59 of AIDS.
So the more things may seem to change, the more they remain the same. But yeah you’re right: the fags and dykes are crawling out of the woodwork now.