Historic Presidential Affairs That Never Made it To the TabloidsFDR and Eleanor had a special arrangement, LBJ had no shame, and Harding had a favorite closet.

History.com ^ | May 7, 2018 | Becky Little

[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...

[ladyjane]

Actually it was very commonplace. People didn’t have a lot of extra beds in their small homes and the homes were cold. That is why the beds were near the chimneys in the center of the house. They had bundling boards so a male and a female could sleep together but there was a big board between them.

[ladyjane]

I should have added, there were many illegitimate births back then. Ask anyone who does genealogy.

[ladyjane]

I should have added, there were many illegitimate births back then. Ask anyone who does genealogy.

[Glad2bnuts]

Sally Hemmings had a child, most likely by Thomas Jeffersons brother or father. The DNA tests were not conclusive re President Jefferson.

[x]

The results weren’t conclusive to the other Jeffersons either.

[x]

The story now is that Grover may have been a a rapist. I can’t say if that’s true, but he was a shadier character than people knew.

[Robwin]

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...

Horsefeathers. The press defended The Hero of the Bay of Pigs because he was their ideal of the picture perfect president, young, urbane, sophisticated, sufficiently liberal. The fact he was an incompetent twit who constantly betrayed Jackie was never a factor in the MSM's portrayal of the absolutely wonderful Jack. Same with his drug addiction and his chronic back problems.