Hey guyz this Val from "Top 10 Ace" - and today we are talking about the Infidelity In The White House:
As long as there have been men in the White House, presidents have scandalized their position with extramarital affairs
and some cheaters were worse than others.
From president Warren G. Harding to president George H. W. Bush,
here are 10 cheating U.S presidents and their many mistresses.
#1. Warren G. Harding Carrie Phillips And Nan Britton.
Like Mr. John F. Kennedy, President Warren G. Harding seems to have gotten around quite a bit in his day.
The most famous of his relationships was with Carrie Phillips which started in 1905,
despite the fact that both were married (Harding was actually good friends with Carrie's husband).
The couple's hilariously steamy love letters were opened to the press in 2014.
During the 1920 presidential election, the Republican National Committee essentially bribed Carrie
and her husband to stay out of sight, sending them on a free trip to Asia with $20,000 in cash.
Before his affair with Carrie had even ended, Harding had taken up with Nan Britton,
a campaign volunteer who was 30 years his junior.
Nan gave birth to a baby girl in 1919,
(Harding had the Secret Service hand-deliver child-support payments)
and sued the Harding estate after his death to get a trust fund for the child.
She lost the case, but bounced back by writing a tell-all called "The President's Daughter", dedicated "to all unwed mothers."
The book caused a scandal by detailing her numerous wild escapades with Harding, including s*x in the Oval Office closet.
Two other women claimed to have conceived children by Harding (one had a son while the other terminated her pregnancy).
There was also a "violent" affair during his senate years with a staffer named Grace Cross.
Harding didn't even bother to keep his affairs much of a secret, telling a private group of reporters:
"It's a good thing I am not a woman. I would always be pregnant. I can't say no."
#2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt And Lucy Mercer
In 1916, the president began an affair with his wife's secretary - Lucy Mercer,
while his wife - Eleanor and the kids were away on vacation.
Mercer soon switched to FDR's desk and the affair continued to the delight of salacious gossips throughout Washington D.C.,
Eleanor finally found out two years later when she discovered a trove of letters to her dear husband from her former employee.
The affair devastated Eleanor and she offered Franklin a divorce.
FDR was actually pretty receptive to the idea.
He wanted to marry Lucy, who was a far better match for him than Eleanor,
but his domineering mother put the kibosh on any separation by threatening to withdraw
her financial support if the marriage wasn't fixed.
FDR's political mentors agreed, rightfully saying that a divorce would be political suicide.
FDR gave in, choosing money and career over love, and asked Eleanor for forgiveness.
She agreed to stay in the marriage on the condition that FDR never see Mercer again.
Eleanor also insisted that she and FDR no longer share a bed.
The most respected First Ladies was initially painfully shy and insecure regarding her abilities.
Eventually, she befriended two lesbian couples, Elizabeth Read and Esther Lape and Nancy Cook and Marion Dickerman,
who became role models, showing Eleanor she could establish an identity outside of her husband.
Over time, Eleanor would become a powerful force on the political scene.
Her relationship with FDR became a highly successful working partnership rather than a normal marriage.
The affair was officially confirmed with the publication of Jonathan W. Daniels' memoir -
"The Time Between the Wars" after both parties were long since dead.
#3. James Buchanan and Senator William King
James Buchanan was America's "Gay President."
Years before James Buchanan entered the White House, he was engaged to a wealthy heiress, Anne,
who died suddenly a few days after their engagement was broken off.
Her family refused Buchanan entry to her funeral - blaming him for the death.
Local gossip speculated that she had been devastated to discover that he was seeing other people behind her back.
As sad as it was, Anne's death might not be the only reason Buchanan was the first (and last) bachelor President.
For 23 years, Buchanan lived with Senator William King,
not as roommates sharing a house, but actually sleeping together in the same room.
Some historians have pointed to the relationship as a good reason to call Buchanan our first "Gay President."
One congressman referred to Buchanan and Senator (later Vice President) King as "Buchanan and his wife,"
while others referred to King as "Aunt Fancy" and the pair as "Siamese twins."
Historian James Loewen points to Buchanan as being "fairly open" about the relationship -
noting the few surviving letters between the two are indicative of their devotion.
As Buchanan wrote to a friend regarding King's departure for France:
For his part, King wrote to Buchanan:
Sadly, most of the letters between the pair were destroyed by relatives
and it is likely we will never be completely certain as to the nature of their relationship.
#4. Dwight D. Eisenhower And Kay Summersby
Dwight D. Eisenhower is considered one of America's most successful military leaders,
serving as Supreme Commander of the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II.
But the task of taking the fight to the Nazis meant long periods of separation from his wife "Mamie."
Perhaps that's why Ike began the affair that was soon being gossiped about all the way back in Washington.
Photos of Eisenhower often showed him accompanied by his lovely secretary and driver - Kay Summersby,
often standing just a little too close.
After years of falling in love emotionally, Kay and Ike allegedly consummated their affair in the spring of 1944.
Or at least they tried to.
According to Summersby, Ike was actually impotent, confessing that marriage had "killed something" in him.
As a result, she had to take the lead and teach him about s*x during their trysts.
When the war ended, Ike sent a formal request to his superior officer - General Marshall -
to be relieved of duty so he could divorce Mamie and marry Kay.
An outraged Marshall refused, promising to force Eisenhower out of the army and ruin his life should the divorce happen.
As a result, the relationship ended, only coming to light in 1975.
With Kay dying and Eisenhower already deceased, she decided to publish a book about the relationship.
#5. James Garfield and Rancie Selleck
While in school, the 20th President of the United States, James Garfield was obsessed with s*x, homos**uality,
and mast**bation, and frequently took cold showers to ward off temptation.
Despite his attraction to independent women, he felt obliged to marry "an asexual wallflower," Lucretia "Crete" Rudolph,
whom he met while studying and working as a janitor at the Eclectic Institute in Hiram, Ohio.
Crete and Garfield were engaged in 1854, but he began sleeping with a "sensuous and witty" friend -
named Rancie Selleck within a year.
Crete was aware of the affair, which lasted until 1858, calling it the "keenest dagger to my heart."
It wouldn't be the last of Garfield's indiscretions.
In 1862, he had a liaison with an 18-year-old reporter for the New York Tribune named Lucia Gilbert Calhoun.
And there was a long-term relationship with an Eclectic Institute student named Almeda Booth.
When Crete confronted Garfield about Booth, he confessed everything, calling it a "lawless passion."
Garfield's womanizing was so prolific that Crete kept herself out of the press for fear that her presence
would be an invitation for public charges of infidelity.
Despite this, the 1880 election was rocked by allegations that Garfield had visited a New Orleans prostitute.
In December of 1863, the couple's first born child - Eliza Arabella Garfield, known as "Trot", died at age three.
This tragedy served as a catalyst to strengthen the couple's marriage.
It is said that after the child's death, Garfield firmly committed himself to his marriage.
The couple's mutual love of literature and the classics and of politics and their mutual abhorrence of slavery
all provided a basis on which to build a relationship and provide fertile territory for their love to grow.
#6. John F. Kennedy: Ellen Rometsch and Mimi Alford
At the age of 85, Bobby Baker - Lyndon B. Johnson's one time aid, told Politico that not one, but two presidents -
Rep. Gerald Ford and President John F. Kennedy were caught sleeping with a reputed East German spy - Ellen Rometsch,
who was employed by a salon frequented by both prostitutes and politicians.
Eva Mensch, who was also an alleged Soviet spy,
had several encounters with President Kennedy shortly before he was assassinated.
After his death, she set her sights on Gerald Ford.
According to Baker, the FBI got ahold of video of the second relationship,
and used it to blackmail Ford for information on the Warren Commission.
President Kennedy also had a relationship with Mimi Alford who was just 19 and not even a week into her White House
internship when President John F. Kennedy asked her for drinks in the residential quarters.
While touring Jackie's room, the president seduced Mimi and took her virginity
to begin an 18 month affair that would fizzle out months before JFK's death.
After the release of her tell all memoir, Alford said she would do it again
and that she probably should have felt guilty for poor Mrs. Kennedy.
Priscilla Ware, and Jill Cowen, were also allegedly slept with President Kennedy while interning at the White House.
#7. Thomas Jefferson And Sally Hemings
Sally Hemmings was 30 years younger than President Thomas Jefferson - his half sister by marriage, and his slave.
When she traveled with his legitimate daughter to France in the 1700s,
the two began a relationship that resulted in six illegitimate children, including Harriet.
Though the kids were still considered Jefferson's slaves, the President trained each in an art or trade skill
and freed them at the age of 21.
DNA analysis between the Hemming family line and the Jefferson's has since confirmed that the affair took place.
#8. Grover Cleveland and Maria Halpin
One of only three presidents to get hitched while in office, Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom in 1886.
There was more than a hint of scandal about the match,
since Folsom was 27 years younger than her husband (he had actually bought her baby carriage).
To make things even creepier, Folsom had actually been Cleveland's ward ever since her father died when she was nine.
However, this was nothing compared to what had happened in Cleveland's past.
In 1873, when Cleveland was 37 years old, he was courting a sales clerk named Maria Halpin.
On December 15, he took Maria Halpin out for dinner and then insisted on accompanying her home.
According to Halpin - Cleveland then r*p*d her "by use of force and violence and without my consent."
Halpin also claimed that Cleveland threatened to "ruin" her if she told anyone what had happened.
Six weeks later, she discovered that she was pregnant.
When the child was born, Cleveland had Maria arrested and committed to an insane asylum,
placing his newborn son into an orphanage.
Thankfully, the asylum's director recognized the abuse of power and released Maria immediately,
claiming that she had been committed "without warrant or form of law."
She did not get her son back.
#9. George H. W. Bush And Jennifer Fitzgerald
There were always rumors that then Vice President George H. W. Bush
and his appointments assistant were romantically involved,
but there was no real evidence until "The Power House" was published in 1992.
In the book, the journalist Susan Trento claimed that former U.S. Ambassador Louis Fields admits
that he arranged for the president and his mistress to stay in a private cottage while visiting Geneva in 1984.
Trento didn't immediately report the comments at the request of the ambassador,
who was worried they would damage his career, but went public after his death.
The allegations were then largely forgotten until the notorious "unauthorized biographer" Kitty Kelley repeated them in
"The Family" - her 2004 book on the Bushes.
According to Kelley, longtime Republican stalwart James Baker
refused to run Bush's 1980 presidential campaign as long as Fitzgerald was in the picture.
Unlike most of the entries on this list, the allegations surrounding Bush and Fitzgerald were never conclusively proven,
and the Bush family have gone to great lengths to refute them.
When reporter Mary Tillotson asked Bush about the affair during a live news conference, his staff were reportedly incensed,
vowing that Tillotson would "never work around the White House again."
In a 1991 "Vanity Fair" article, Hillary Clinton also lobbed an accusation about
Bush and Fitzgerald while being interviewed about her husband's infidelities with a woman also named Gennifer.
#10. Bill Clinton: Gennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky.
In 1992, as the presidential election was getting into full swing, model and actress Gennifer Flowers
went public with her 12 year relationship with candidate Bill Clinton.
The presidential hopeful denied everything at first, but Flowers came back with intimate recorded conversations
that were hard to refuse.
Clinton would eventually testify that he did have sex with Flowers.
Also during Clinton's first term in 1995, Monica Lewinsky — a graduate of Lewis & Clark College —
was hired to work as an intern at the White House and was later an employee of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs.
While Lewinsky worked at the White House, Clinton began a personal relationship with her,
the details of which she later confided to Linda Tripp, her Defense Department co-worker
who secretly recorded their telephone conversations.
In January 1998, Tripp discovered that Lewinsky had sworn an affidavit in the Paula Jones case,
denying a relationship with Clinton.
She delivered tapes to Kenneth Starr, the Independent Counsel who was investigating Clinton on other matters
- exposed the truth of the affair that both Lewinsky and Clinton had sought to deny.
Further investigation led to charges of perjury and led to the impeachment of President Clinton in 1998
by the U.S. House of Representatives, and his subsequent acquittal on all impeachment charges
of perjury and obstruction of justice in a 21-day Senate trial.
Clinton was held in civil contempt of court by Judge Susan Webber Wright for giving misleading testimony
in the Paula Jones case regarding Lewinsky and was also fined $90,000 by Wright.
His license to practice law was suspended in Arkansas for five years;
shortly thereafter, he was disbarred from presenting cases in front of the United States Supreme Court.
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