Welcome to Dun & Dun. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, exploring and connecting the world, the universe of Dominic Dunn.

We are back for the conclusion of Bad Blood, the real feud between Truman Capote and Gore Vidal featuring Lee Radzwell.

We have defined the relationship between Truman and Gore.

We have talked about what Truman has to say about the whole thing.

In this episode, we are going to explore a bunch of other primary sources.

What happened at the White House from the people who were there?

How did it get told? How did it get translated? And how is Truman utterly betrayed by his dear

princess Lee Radzwell? Oh, it's mean. It's super petty, y'all. I think you're going to love it.

Let's investigate.

Okay, friends, so Gore is suing Truman for libel.

Again, suspicious timing on that.

He's going in for the kill.

Gore is, remember, Viper Man.

There's a lot to unpack here.

Let's go ahead and go to what the actual people who were actually there at the White House in 1961 said about whatever kerfuffle happened. This next bit is from George Plimpton,

recalling the night at the White House in his book Truman Capote in which various friends,

enemies, acquaintances, and detractors recall his turbulent career. Let's go to a eyewitness from George

Plimpton. The whole episode goes back to a dinner dance at the White House in the Kennedy administration.

If memory serves,

it was at that occasion that Franklin Roosevelt Jr. rose from his table in the East Room to Toast Stash Radzwell Lee's husband at the time. The problem was that Stash at the moment

of Roosevelt's toast was in a plane landing at what was then New York's

Idlewild airport. His flight had been delayed by storms. The man Roosevelt was toasting,

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