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BoneyardDem

(1,202 posts)
15. Why not pose that same question without naming just one POTUS?
Wed Nov 22, 2017, 07:19 PM
Nov 2017

Perhaps sex and power have been around a lot longer than Clinton?

https://www.salon.com/2015/02/08/the_7_biggest_presidential_sex_scandals_in_history_partner/


Grover Cleveland

Grover Cleveland had a reputation for being quite the ladies man. While practicing law in Buffalo, New York, Cleveland had a romance with a young woman named Maria Crofts Halpin. Years later, Halpin accused Cleveland of fathering her son, Oscar. Cleveland did not deny it, and while never admitting paternity, did send her child support. When he ran for president in 1884, that dalliance came back to bite him, as his opponents rallied around the slogan, “Ma ma, where’s my pa, gone to the White House, ha ha ha.” Still, Cleveland prevailed in the election to become president (an office he lost in the subsequent election, and then regained in 1892).


Franklin Roosevelt

FDR’s paralysis, caused by the polio he contracted as a young man, was no impediment to his desires. Roosevelt had a lifelong affair with Lucy Mercer, his wife’s social secretary. The affair probably began in 1916 (before FDR’s polio struck in 1921), while Roosevelt was serving as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, with Eleanor and their children away for the summer. A couple of years later, Eleanor happened upon some steamy letters between her husband and Lucy. Threatening divorce (which would have ruined Roosevelt politically), Eleanor remained FDR’s partner if not lover. Undaunted, FDR continued his relationship with Mercer until his death in 1945 (Mercer was actually with the president when he died.) Other rumored affairs included his secretary, Missy LeHand, and another with the Crown Princess Marta of Norway. Not to be outdone, Eleanor had her own extracurricular activities to keep her busy, not least of which were probable affairs with Nancy Cook, Marion Dickerman and Lorena Hickok.


Lyndon Baines Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson competed with John Kennedy in realms beyond politics. Referring to JFK’s sexual voraciousness, LBJ once claimed, "I have had more women by accident than he has had on purpose."

Lordy wryter2000 Nov 2017 #1
I did too underpants Nov 2017 #6
Me three. Nt BootinUp Nov 2017 #22
How much does she get paid to be so insightful? guillaumeb Nov 2017 #2
I knew it was somehow all Clinton's fault. LisaL Nov 2017 #3
Actually HILLARY'S fault for working to save their marriage elfin Nov 2017 #21
She was consenting and happy; they spoke together Hortensis Nov 2017 #29
What was the response to the guest who brought up Dotard? ProudLib72 Nov 2017 #4
Was listening not watching rufus dog Nov 2017 #11
False equivalence huh? ProudLib72 Nov 2017 #20
And the comment by her about Al Franken makes me madder than hell. Eliot Rosewater Nov 2017 #5
I don't watch her show. saidsimplesimon Nov 2017 #7
She hosted MTP daily rufus dog Nov 2017 #13
Of course it's all Bill Clinton's fault Pope George Ringo II Nov 2017 #8
... nolabear Nov 2017 #12
and I went out to dinner with friends DURHAM D Nov 2017 #17
How Responsible Are John Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, and Thomas Jefferson? Leith Nov 2017 #9
Ah, the Almightly Clenis! So powerful it turned tRump into Pathwalker Nov 2017 #10
Caught that segment, Wellstone ruled Nov 2017 #14
Why not pose that same question without naming just one POTUS? BoneyardDem Nov 2017 #15
I guess Katy blames Bill for the way Trump treated her. nt DURHAM D Nov 2017 #16
Every since she has been in studio and not out on the trail DURHAM D Nov 2017 #18
He was punished heavily for his deeds with Lewinsky. NCTraveler Nov 2017 #19
You mean, because he was the first President the media didn't cover up for, but made a spectacle pnwmom Nov 2017 #23
Bill Clinton was not the first nor will he be the last politician to screw around blueinredohio Nov 2017 #24
I think there was a message sent out that intimidated women from speaking out against others MichMan Nov 2017 #25
After having read her father's perspective on their estrangement, lapucelle Nov 2017 #26
A new word was coined? quartz007 Nov 2017 #27
and "bimbo eruptions" MichMan Nov 2017 #33
He is not. Period. It's a culture that has been with the human race for thousands of years. madinmaryland Nov 2017 #28
Why not blame JFK? WhiteTara Nov 2017 #30
yeah misogyny and sexual harassment never existed before Clinton Takket Nov 2017 #31
Eisenhower had an affair with a subordinate delisen Nov 2017 #32
Since the beginning of time. What about Lot and his daughters? mainer Nov 2017 #34
He paid a price for what he did, so what is he supposed to be responsible for? unblock Nov 2017 #35
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