Posted on 08/13/2015 10:16:39 AM PDT by dware
FULL TITLE: Genetic test proves President Harding DID father a love child with mistress who he would have sex with in a West Wing closet
One of the sauciest legends of the White House has finally been proven true, thanks to DNA testing.
Relatives of President Warren G Harding revealed to the New York Times on Wednesday that he did indeed father a daughter in 1919 with his longtime mistress Nan Britton, after receiving the results of a genetic test linking them to the son of the love child.
Rumors of Harding's infidelity became tabloid fodder in 1927, when Britton authored a tell-all on their secret relationship, revealing juicy facts like the fact that they used to have sex in a West Wing closet.
But Britton's claim that she bore Harding's one-and-only offspring was treated with heavy skepticism, as the president's family insisted that he had was sterile due to a childhood case of the mumps.
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I don’t know. He has a certain look - I like it. Hotter than Kennedy (why does everyone think Kennedy was good looking?)
>> The DNA test also reveals NO African lineage <<
Not definitive. It’s quite possible that Harding himself could have had a small percentage of African DNA, but that this DNA did not show up in his grandchildren’s DNA due to the “dilution” of DNA that occurs at each generation. Genealogists who work with DNA see this phenomenon frequently.
You have a mind of your own, KK, as all kool kats do.
>> Strom Thurmond, who had a daughter from an extramarital affair <<
Not extramarital. It was premarital. And to call the encounter an “affair” is probably a very big stretch.
>> Democratic-Republican Party as opposed to Federalist <<
Yes, sorta. But in Jefferson’s day, he was almost always referred to simply as a “Republican” without any hyphenation.
Obama was NOT the first black president, in other words.
Warren Harding had more claim to being African-American than Rachel Doles-All.
I’m completely serious.
Agree
Harding died in office. There was a lot of talk about what killed him. The official story is that it was a stroke (cerebral hemorrhage), but he had other health problems and a lot on his mind. There were rumors of foul play, but that's unlikely.
Harding was long rated the worst of presidents (along with US Grant) because of all the scandals. That's changed a bit -- the country didn't fall apart when he was in office; in fact things improved -- but it's hard to see him making it up into the average category, let alone good or great, because he made bad appointments and didn't supervise what was going on.
I think he’s kind of hot. But I’m not always a follower of current trends :-)
Harding had numerous affairs. He referred to his penis in name as Jerry in his letters to one of his paramours.
That child looks just like her father! If you ask me, no DNA test was needed.
An article in the NY Times also stated the DNA definitively proved she is not only Harding’s child, but she has no African genetic code. He was not black.
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