Secret Love Lives of US Presidents

by Kristin Booker

Reports of affairs go all the way back to Thomas Jefferson, whose affair with Sally Hemings, a slave he met in Paris, led to the birth of five children and now-notorious birthright demands from her progeny. Other Presidents followed suit, from affairs with White House staff (Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bill Clinton) to multiple affairs and dalliances a la John F. Kennedy. Warren Harding’s infidelity may have been his undoing. While the official record is that he died of a heart attack, it’s rumored that his wife poisoned him.

Politics and Your Bedroom

How does the passion of the Presidency affect your own bedroom? Although the U.S. is a free nation, many of the general population take latent cues from the White House. An example of this was the Kennedy administration. Think of the dichotomy that existed within that relationship and the split in American culture at that time: part of the country embraced the picture-perfect marriage while the groundswell of free love and sexual revolution was beginning to be heard. Clinton’s infidelity caused one of the largest rifts in American opinions in history, with Americans split on whether he should be impeached or the issue ignored per other Presidential infidelities.

Looking Ahead: The Next Four Years

Both men now running for the White House have seemingly strong yet different marriages. Think about whose relationship you tend to want to emulate: the friendly-but-conservative display of affection of the McCains or the open PDA of the Obama camp? In tumultuous times like these, does the stability of the President’s love life make a difference? History would say that it does. How does that impact your own bedroom? Well, for one, how sexy do you think you’ll feel if the economy continues to crash?