Ever wonder what to do with those little cocktail weenies? Let them be part of a full meal with fresh broccoli and a touch of red onion.
Ingredients
1 fresh broccoli crown
¾ package of little beef smokies (cocktail weenies)
½ red onion chopped
2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tsp salt
1Tbs Grill Mates Seasonings (or your favorite steak seasonings)
½ tsp parsley flakes
1/4 tsp black pepper (optional)
1/8 tsp cayenne pepper (optional)
1 tsp lemon juice
Parmesan cheese
Serve on white rice
Instructions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees Spray a foil lined and rimed baking sheet.
In small bowl of 2 Tbs olive oil, mix in 1 tsp salt, 1 Tbs Grill Mates Seasonings. ¼ tsp of parsley flakes.
If you are using cayenne pepper and black pepper, add it to the bowl. Stir that into the brocolli mixture.
If you wish sprinkle with parmesan cheese. Serve over white rice for a full meal.
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Robert Cutler
Robert Cutler, known as Bobby, was born into a prominent Boston family on June 12, 1895, in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was the youngest of five sons born to George C. and Mary F. Wilson Cutler.
Cutler attended Harvard College and planned on becoming an English teacher and writer. He was class poet, wrote the baccalaureate hymn, and graduated second in his class in 1916. After graduating, he taught at Harvard and Radcliffe College and he authored two novels – Louisburg Square (1917) and The Speckled Bird (1923). During World War I he volunteered with the American Expeditionary Forces. In 1922 he graduated from Harvard Law School.
After graduating from Harvard law school, Cutler went to work for the firm of Herrick, Smith, Donald & Farley. On October 25, 1940, Cutler was appointed corporation counsel for the city of Boston by Mayor Maurice J. Tobin.
On July 28, 1942, Cutler resigned as corporation counsel to join the United States Army. President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated Cutler for the position of head occupational analyst of the Army Specialist Corps (ASC) with the rank of colonel. After the ASC was disbanded, Cutler served as chief of the Procurement Division. During the 1944 presidential election, he served as executive officer of the War Ballot Commission.
He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal in December 1944. In 1945 October he was promoted to brigadier general and was awarded the Legion of Merit for "his foresight and careful planning, consummate tact, unusual ability and vigor" during his service with the Legislative and Liaison Division of the War Department Special Staff. He received his discharge on December 9, 1945.
In 1952, Cutler served as Eisenhower's personal secretary on the campaign train, a position that had him perform several tasks, including speechwriting and advising. U.S. News & World Report described Cutler as "emerging as the right-hand man of the General" and "probably closer to the candidate in a personal sense than Gov. Sherman Adams, who is generally regarded as the top man".
President-elect Eisenhower appointed Cutler as the assistant to the president for national security affairs. In this position, Cutler played a major role in turning the National Security Council into a top policy-making body. He tendered his resignation on March 8, 1955 and was succeeded by Dillon Anderson on April 1. On March 31, 1955, he received the Medal of Freedom for his "outstanding contribution to the security and defense of our nation.
He was also a banker, a poet, a cross-dresser who loved the female roles in amateur theatrical productions and a closeted gay man at the center of a gay White House love triangle.
Cutler oversaw the drafting of Eisenhower's Executive Order 10450, signed on April 27, 1953, contributing language that identified "sexual perversion" as grounds for exclusion from employment by the federal government. It represented a campaign promise to Senator Joseph McCarthy. The order initiated the years-long purge of gays and lesbians from employment by the federal government, the Lavender Scare component of the Red Scare witch-hunts of the 1950s.
Like many gay men of his time, Cutler struggled to find, recognize and accept his sexual and romantic orientation. And like far too many, he was perfectly willing to promote discrimination against other homosexuals, if it would help deflect suspicion from himself.
Cutler resigned his post in 1955, apparently out of fear that the disclosure of his own secret homosexuality might harm the Eisenhower Administration. His homosexuality was known to some Washington insiders, including the prominent columnist Joseph Alsop, a closeted gay himself, and Charles Bohlen, whose nomination as ambassador to Moscow was threatened by McCarthy's at the time with innuendo about his sexuality.
“A strange climate of paranoia and dishonesty permeated Washington,” biographer Peter Shinkle writes of a city “where vicious hunts for homosexuals were led by men themselves suspected of being gay like McCarthy and Cohn, where people laughed as Joseph Welch and McCarthy sparred maliciously over the words pixie and fairy … and where senators practiced the art of gay blackmail against political foes … Homosexuality was simultaneously everywhere but nowhere, suspected but not proved, concealed but then revealed, loathed and labeled a security risk – but then giggled about.
Robert “Bobby” Cutler, left, and Skip Koons at the pool at the Dumbarton Oaks mansion in Washington, D.C., in July 1957.
Tilghman “Skip” Koons, was a gorgeous 27-year-old Russian-speaker who Cutler recruited for the National Security Council staff. How Koons’s homosexuality failed to prevent his employment is a mystery: He was recommended to Cutler by an ex-lover, Steve Benedict, who Cutler knew from the Eisenhower campaign. Incredibly, at the height of the gay witch-hunt in 1954, Benedict also joined the White House as its security officer.
Cutler was completely besotted with Koons, to whom he wrote wild love letters:
Out of all the concerns in my world, this interest in you and yours predominates. As if some electric current, invisible but sure, pulsed across the sea to communicate between us. I hope this can always be so …
Cutler was a workaholic and Koons was less than half his age. Eventually, the older man presented the younger with a 163,000-word journal about their relationship. Benedict inherited that diary and 600 letters between Cutler and Koons. He gave it all to Peter Shinkle, a research bonanza which made much of his book possible.
All three men lived on a razor’s edge. In 1957, a White House correspondence clerk named George Dame was arrested in the men’s bathroom in the library of George Washington University by a member of the vice squad. Dame named two other gay White House staffers: one of them told the FBI Cutler was gay. Hoover took personal charge of the investigation. Mysteriously, he took no action, possibly because it would have damaged his relationship with the president. Hoover himself had a “spousal” relationship with his deputy Clyde Tolson which according to his biographer Richard Powers was “so close, so enduring, and so affectionate that it took the place of marriage for both bachelors”
Passages from Cutler's diary, are poignant and sometimes painful to read. Cutler wrote after Koons drove him home in his Thunderbird after a night at the movies in 1957, “I took his hand our fingers for a moment interlaced, It was at that moment the greatest adventure of my life began: the best, the purest, the most penetrating moment I ever knew.”
Cutler avoided scrutiny. Benedict and Koons, both of whom had left the White House and gone to work for the U.S. Information Agency and had to endure years of investigations. Although they never had their security clearances yanked, ultimately drove them from government service.
Robert Cutler died on May 8, 1974, in Concord, Massachusetts. Never married, Cutler left no immediate survivors, but he was survived by several nieces and nephews.
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