[Diplomat]

Harding drank bathtub gin and gambled in the White House during Prohibition. As president, he slept around on his wife with multiple mistresses, including getting one of them pregnant. He was considered a charming, handsome man. He was Bill Clinton before bubba was himself.

The only difference is that Harding died in office under somewhat mysterious circumstances. His manner of death is consistent with poisoning, though it certainly didn't go down like that when it happened.

If I said "Harding died while president, in San Francisco, where the four attending physicians could not agree on a cause of death, and, his body was embalmed within an hour of his death and no autopsy was performed under orders of his wife," would you believe it?

Believe it.

[KamperKen]

I think our trains are on parallel tracks. Harding was personally dissolute, without a doubt. Just like JFK, who's probably the most egregious example of all, worse than Clinton. However, I'm not aware that Harding was on the take. His immediate circle certainly was, just like with the Grant administration.

Lyndon Johnson probably collected the largest fortune through his political shakedowns and kickbacks of any politican in the history of this country. And there, was of course, his infamous stolen senatorial election and his faux military career.

Clinton's criminality was all-pervasive, not just confined to money matters, and history is not finished with him. Had Clinton only been personally dissolute, like Harding.