Zazzie
|
posted on March 16, 2001 09:14:27 AM
Anybody got a list of which President kept a sweetie on the side?? Don't bother with Clinton--we all know that story 
I've got a couple
IKE (republican) Kay Sommersby
FDR (democrat) Lucy (?)
|
gaffan
|
posted on March 16, 2001 09:44:23 AM
Warren G. Harding (Republican) - Nan Britton (and about a dozen others)
-gaffan-
[ edited by gaffan on Mar 16, 2001 09:52 AM ]
|
Zazzie
|
posted on March 16, 2001 09:48:14 AM
don't forget which party they belong too
|
jamesoblivion
|
posted on March 16, 2001 10:04:23 AM
Lyndon (Move over, it's your President) Johnson.
|
bobbysoxer
|
posted on March 16, 2001 10:11:37 AM
Which President had a child out of wedlock? I can't recall off hand.
Not that it is wrong but it's just that while Clinton was being raked over the coals for his situation, the finger pointers from Congress who -in my opinion- were living in glass houses. So if we (as a nation) are going to point a finger at Clinton then I think we need to examine all Presidential and government leaders' "Family Values."
I don't remember Bush Senior's alleged girlfriend, does anyone?
|
jamesoblivion
|
posted on March 16, 2001 10:16:29 AM
Well, adultery isn't okay just because people do it. It's one of the most deceitful things a person can do.
I think it was Grover Cleveland? It happened in between his terms (Benjamin Harrison replaced him and then he beat Harrison).
|
Zazzie
|
posted on March 16, 2001 10:26:26 AM
George Bush Sr.(republican)---alleged mistress -Jennifer Fitzgerald
|
bobbysoxer
|
posted on March 16, 2001 10:34:33 AM
Thank you zazzie and james
I have heard from a Republican friend of mine that Barbara has denied the affair. The Republican and I don't agree but we have healthy discussions.
|
jamesoblivion
|
posted on March 16, 2001 10:36:50 AM
Barbara is not alleged to have had the affair, so I'm not sure how her denial means anything.
Since no on ementioned him, I guess JFK goes without saying?
|
Zazzie
|
posted on March 16, 2001 10:40:24 AM
Grover Cleveland (democrat)
" - During the 1884 presidential campaign, a woman named Maria Helpin went public with a story that Cleveland had fathered a child with her. The boy did exist, and he was named Oscar Folsom Cleveland.
- Cleveland did something unprecedented in political history. He sent a telegram to his campaign managers telling them to "tell
the truth" and published the entire story, which was:
- Back in 1874 both Cleveland and Folsom, his law partner, had sexual relations with Helpin, a very unstable woman who probably
had a case of nymphomania. Cleveland knew of several other men she had been involved with.
- Helpin became pregnant, but there was no way to know who the real father was. There was a chance that Cleveland or Folsom
might have been the father. She had no way of supporting herself and a child, and was slipping into mental illness. All all the men in Helpin's life tried to wash their hands of her, and the son she bore, except Cleveland.
- Cleveland took over financial reponsibility for the boy until an adoption could be arranged and named him after his law partner and himself. Oscar was adopted by a couple in western New York and Helpin was eventually institutionalized.
In coming clean Cleveland turned the tables on the Republicans. Corruption and honesty were major issues in the 1884 election,
and voters were so impressed by Cleveland's courage in telling the truth, and angry about corrupt favors accepted from the railway industry by Blaine, that he swept New York, the state in which the Republicans had tried to whip up a scandal frenzy. In those days New York held enough Electoral College votes to dominate presidential elections. His take of the popular vote was only 48.5% vs 48.2% for Blaine."
|
bobbysoxer
|
posted on March 16, 2001 10:41:47 AM
james
LOL!!! Now that is a vision I could have done without!
To clarify she has apparently has denied the affair between her hubby and Fitz.
|
Linda_K
|
posted on March 16, 2001 10:42:47 AM
I was thinking of JFK, but wasn't sure if he qualified as having A mistress, as it was rumored there were many women in his life.
Zazzie - might be easier to find a president who [hasn't] had an affair. Of course, there's Jimmy Carter.
|
bobbysoxer
|
posted on March 16, 2001 10:43:13 AM
I thought Jack was a given.
|
Zazzie
|
posted on March 16, 2001 10:43:35 AM
George sr------but then they didn't have a 'Ken Starr' to ferret out all the dirt or non-dirt.
|
bobbysoxer
|
posted on March 16, 2001 10:44:43 AM
How soon we forget....
Jimmy Carter had lust in his heart....
|
Zazzie
|
posted on March 16, 2001 10:45:30 AM
ya---I didn't even bother thinking about him--he's almost glorified because of his affairs/ or they are basically ignored because of the manner of his death
|
Zazzie
|
posted on March 16, 2001 10:46:35 AM
bobbysoxer---but he kept it there
|
bobbysoxer
|
posted on March 16, 2001 10:50:13 AM
What about the First Lady's affairs? Eleanor allegedly had a mistress.
|
toke
|
posted on March 16, 2001 10:52:20 AM
Thomas Jefferson...Democratic-Republican...Sally Hemings
|
Linda_K
|
posted on March 16, 2001 10:54:13 AM
hi bobbysoxer - I thought he was so honest to admit that to say that publicly. And I believe most men have 'lusted in the hearts' at some time in their life. Seems normal to me.
|
mrpotatoheadd
|
posted on March 16, 2001 10:56:33 AM
Match the President with the woman historians believe to have been his mistress.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/puzzle/puzzle_old11.html
|
mivona
|
posted on March 16, 2001 11:53:00 AM
I still have so much respect for Jimmy Carter. He was a president for our times, following on Watergate we NEEDED someone who at least behaved in a moral manner.
I love that he could admit that he had lust in his heart... it is just so HUMAN!
Plus... He made it possible for me to have dual nationality.
|
zeldas
|
posted on March 16, 2001 11:58:30 AM
Didn't Thomas Jefferson have a mistress too. I think it was a black slave that he treated as one of the family. He even took her to Paris. Cannot remember the name.
I think JFK's mistress was Judith Exner or something like that----
|
Borillar
|
posted on March 16, 2001 12:05:25 PM
Remeber, minova: that Presidents can't be HUMAN with normal, natural flaws -- unless they are republican presidents. Then, it OK.
Zazzie: does it have to be when they were in office? Ronald Reagan supposedly raped an actress named Selene Walters in the early 1950's:
""I opened the door," Walters told People Magazine. "Then it was the battle of the couch. I was fighting him. I didn't want him to make love to me. He's a very big man, and he just had his way. Date rape? No, God, no, that's [Kelley's] phrase. I didn't have a chance to have a date with him."
... and that Nancy Reagan reportedly got boffed by Frank Sinatra. This was while Ronny was president of the Screen Actors Guild.
|
Zazzie
|
posted on March 16, 2001 12:08:38 PM
no rules here---a boff is a boff
Jefferson---Sally Hemmings
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jefferson990514.html
|
HJW
|
posted on March 16, 2001 12:32:52 PM
Well, it must improve their performance to have sweeties on the side.
The most inferior president on the list, Carter, only lusted in his heart.
Helen
|
Muriel
|
posted on March 16, 2001 01:12:57 PM
Helen - Don't you talk about Jimmy Carter unless there is a smiley face at the end! 
Edited by O'Muriel
[ edited by Muriel on Mar 16, 2001 01:13 PM ]
|
jamesoblivion
|
posted on March 16, 2001 01:14:39 PM
Show me a man who hasn't "lusted in his heart" and I'll show you a corpse.
|
HJW
|
posted on March 16, 2001 01:47:36 PM
Muriel,
I don't do smiley faces anymore, but just for
you I will retract that statement.
Helen
|
zilvy
|
posted on March 16, 2001 10:22:35 PM
Behind every great man, there is a woman or women....nagging him! Post to the top!!
|
