[PBRCat]

I am not sure that it was the right thing to do. One of Johnson’s wives (he married three times) was a prostitute and he provided money to one of his intimates which was used to establish a brothel.

The Mann Act charges may have been appropriate given his conduct.

[DiogenesLamp]

The initial history that I have read on the subject mentioned none of that. That does tend to throw a different light on it.

I had heard that the charges were the consequence of his taking his own wife across state lines.