[Ex-Dem]

- Clinton
- Jefferson
- Cleveland
- Wilson
- Harding
- FDR
- Eisenhower
- JFK

That's hardly "almost all".

[Paleo Conservative]

- Jefferson

Jefferson was a widdower when he was president. So even if he had an affair he did not commit adultery.

[Boston Capitalist]

LBJ.

[donmeaker]

I would subtract Jefferson from your list. The Sally Hemming story is most likely false, and the hemming decendents are probably from another member of the jefferson line.

Other than that, good selection

[donmeaker]

I suppose you could add Buchanan, who was homosexual....

[LenS]

Cleveland wasn't married when he entered the White House. But he was dogged by stories of an illegitimate child and chants of "Ma, Ma, where's my Pa?"

He did get married while President with a big ceremony in the White House. So he really doesn't belong on the list either.

The real questions to be asked are "Why do most Democratic Presidents have affairs?" and "Why do most Republican Presidents don't?" You'll note that Harding is the big exception among the Republicans and that most of the cheaters were Dems.

[quidnunc]

That Eisenhower had an affair with his British driver Kay Summersby has become conventional wisdom, there is no evidence that this is so and there are many who were close to the situation who contradict her account that an affair tookplace.

I would be surprised if Truman ever cheated on Bess.

[Burma Jones]

If "affair" means adulterous affair by married President while he was in office, Clinton, JFK, FDR, LBJ. The rest was either pre-White House, unmarried President, dubious legend, or some combination of the above. Even the Harding stuff with Nan Britton was likely a load of cr*p made up after he was dead by someone trying to make a buck.

[Held_to_Ransom]

- Clinton

He never had intercourse that anyone could prove, even probably Hillary.

- Jefferson

As far as I know, he is alleged to have had an affair outside of marriage, but I know of no proof he had one while president, and there is no proof that he actually did. It was undoubtedly someone in his family with Hemmings, but not necessarily the president.

- Cleveland

Cleveland did the honorable thing and married her before he entered the White House.

- Wilson His wife died in the White House, he then took up with another woman and never cheated on her. He is alleged to have had sex with Edith before marriage, but then, both of them had been married before and widowed. No proof he was a bad boy though.

- Harding

I don't know that one, but Harding was very Clintonesque.

- FDR

The first truly modern president. He didn't really cheat on his wife because he had a 'arrangement' with her. She accepted the deal, so it's hard to call it a cheat. Like they say, there's no aphrodisiac like power.

- Eisenhower

Oh, yeah, his jeep driver in England. He gave it up long before the presidency and was a good boy in office.

- JFK

The second truly modern president. Yes, all over the place, and yes, Clinton's idol, but most certainly not someone Clinton measures up to in this regard.

There was one other notorious democrat, but he was only president of the Confederacy, and although he notoriously ran around before and after his term of office, there is no record that he did it in office.

That's hardly "almost all".

That's correct.