Posted on 04/01/2023 6:35:25 AM PDT by daniel1212
“Until Bill Clinton … there had not been coverage of any infidelity on the part of a sitting president in the mainstream press,” says Alison Dagnes,
JFK’s affairs stayed out of the press not necessarily because journalists wanted to protect him, but because they just didn’t consider such things to be news.... But despite the fact that no one wrote about it at the time, most Americans are by now aware that JFK slept around. Many even suspect JFK slept with Marilyn Monroe... though there’s still no evidence of that. He did, however, have verifiable affairs with many other known women
“All the Way With LBJ” was an apt campaign slogan By coming to a mutually respectful arrangement, the Roosevelts were an anomaly among presidential couples. Lyndon B. Johnson, on the other hand, seemed crudely unconcerned with how his long-term affair with Alice Glass might affect his wife, Lady Bird Johnson.
It seems pretty clear that Lady Bird knew about Glass and the other women he slept with. When Lady Bird died in 2007, The Guardian noted in her obituary: “[Lyndon] Johnson was so casual in his affairs with Alice Glass and his congressional colleague Helen Gahagan Douglas that Lady Bird … was openly humiliated.” This isn’t surprisingly considering that LBJ was known for exposinghis genitals and bragging that he’d had sex with more women than John F. Kennedy—whose exploits were well-known in D.C.
Franklin and Eleanor both had paramours. Like Harding, Franklin D. Roosevelt had a long-time mistress (and possibly others) that the public didn’t know about until after his death....
Warren Harding had a secret daughter...in 1923, his mistress Nan Britton released a juicy tell-all book... a DNA test showed that Harding’s grandniece and grandnephew were second cousins with Britton’s great-grandson...
(Excerpt) Read more at history.com ...
Not to excuse such - nor denials of such if true or false accusations - but while the Left can even excuse adulterers ("In Defense of Adulterers," The New Yorker, December 18 & 25, 2017) while seeking to lynch conservatives for what happened in the distant paste (which does not establish present character, though denial valid accusations do), yet its treatment of its own (past and present) and the inquisitorial zeal Left engages when waging war against conservatives manifests a double standard. (Try to find much of anything negative in Lyndon B. Johnson - Wikipedia) Not that we cannot engage in the same to some degree.
We could have a National Holiday for a man of God that was married and screwed anything wearing a skirt, hired prostitutes to beat, and enjoyed watching his entourage screw whores he’d hired. With him as their moral standard, it is no wonder the unwed mother rate in one demographic is so high.
Oh it certainly didn’t start there.
Eisenhower was banging his British personal secretary during the war.
Buchanan and Lincoln were both clearly gay.
Warren Harding was nailing everything in a skirt.
Do we even need to discuss JFK?
LBJ was another like Harding who had a veritable harem of ho’s while in the White House.
Then there was Clinton.....
I will still put my money on Slick Willy - He was well known for his skirt chasing in Arkansas before he ran after everything in DC.
He also had the advantage of shooting blanks, so he never had to worry about knocking anybody up.
MLK Jr. I presume. Correct me if I am wrong.
No, the presidents weren’t homosexual nor black.
I believe it was Grover Cleaveland who had an affair before running for president.
“Ma, Ma, Where’s My Pa?” Gone to the White House Ha, Ha, Ha!
Nonsense there is no evidence we have ever had a homo president
Alison Dagnes, a political science professor at Shippensburg University and editor of Sex Scandals in American Politics, “…is doubtful that the Stormy Daniels legal challenge will end up impacting Trump or his fans’ opinion of him in a major way.”
Historic Presidential AffairsThe list includes an historian, too, Doris Kearns Goodwin, who boffed LBJ while writing his "psychobiography". Maybe it "liberated" her, too (to write poor corrupted, and plagiarized history). From this article, Kearns Goodwin on her other admired philanderer, FDR:
The couple considered a divorce, but stayed together in order to protect their social standing and FDR’s career. Even though the episode had deeply hurt Eleanor, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin writes in No Ordinary Time that it ultimately made her “free to define a new and different partnership with her husband, free to seek new avenues of fulfillment.”I guess Goodwin would know.
Lincoln slept in the same bed with his "friend" Joshua Speed for THREE YEARS.
Then there was his relationship with David Derrickson. Derickson became a close friend of the president and also shared his bed while Mary Todd was away from Washington. According to an 1895 regimental history written by one of Derickson’s fellow officers: “Captain Derickson, in particular, advanced so far in the President’s confidence and esteem that, in Mrs. Lincoln’s absence, he frequently spent the night at his cottage, sleeping in the same bed with him, and — it is said — making use of His Excellency’s night-shirt!” According to a diary of a Lincoln's naval adjutant "There is a Bucktail soldier here devoted to the President, drives with him, and when Mrs L is not home, sleeps with him. What stuff!'
Then there is James Buchanan and his "friend" Rufus King whom Andrew Jackson dubbed "Miss Nancy and Aunty Fancy". Buchanan wrote about his life after King moved to Paris to become the American ambassador to France:
“I am now ‘solitary and alone,’ having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone; and should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection.”
Cleveland’s is an interesting case.
He and a woman had sex. She got pregnant. Cleveland paid child support.
That much they both agree on.
She later claimed it was rape. Cleveland denied this. She was put in a loony bin for a while. She claimed Cleveland arranged this - he denied it.
She at one point did try to get Cleveland to marry her (after she knew she was pregnant). Cleveland refused to marry her. That part they both agree on.
So Cleveland had....something going on with this woman. Its impossible to tell. Of course his opponent was James Blaine “Continental liar from the state of Maine” who was undoubtedly corrupt. (he took bribes from Railroad companies to award charters to them).
Yes, sleeping in the same bed with the same sex was common and nonsexual at that time in our history.
No sex was implied.
Bonus round: Hillary’s went down on more women than I have.
Bill Clinton
Yes.
The housing used to be very cramped. Whole extended families used to sleep in one room. Several in one bed.
Sharing a bed with other male were common and not considered homosexual.
There was more to it. With the first guy, when he moved away, Lincoln broke off his engagement to Mary Todd and followed the guy to the new location.....this was before eventually going back and marrying Mary Todd a year later.
But aside from sharing his bed with another man for 3 years when he was younger and didn't have as much money, how do you waive away him sharing his bed with another man while President?
if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck.......its probably a duck.
I justify it by saying it was commonplace nonsexual behavior at the time and was not perceived by any at the time to be homo. Lincoln is not here to defend himself.
It is like saying because many families cosleep/ coslept in the past they were all incestuous.
No. The family bed used to be very common - is even referenced in the Bible - and does not imply any such thing, historically.
It may have been done on the frontier or when people were really poor and couldn’t afford their own beds. That excuse doesn’t fly with Lincoln. That especially doesn’t fly when he was president and was married and STILL had another man sleeping with him in his bed.
I do disagree, it was not limited to the poor. It was hospitality, it was normal, it was for warmth, it was not unusual at all. Mary had mental issues, well documented.
Note I am not arguing about Buchanan, whose own writing seems to allude to such proclivities, although I am not certain.
There is a fashion these days to name every historical figure a faggot; it is disgusting and inappropriate.
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