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delisen

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32. Eisenhower had an affair with a subordinate
Wed Nov 22, 2017, 07:10 PM
Nov 2017

while he was commander in World War II. Press did not report on it.
After the war was over he dumped her.

Dick Nixon was never known to engage in any questionable sexual behavior.

Harry Truman apparently never engaged in questionable sexual behavior. He and Bess were just folks.

JFK was notorious but protected by the press. By today's standards his behavior would be considered outrageous.

Johnson had some sketchy bathroom behaviors, insisted his biographer get in bed with him while interviewing him. Otherwise just rumors.

Amiable Gerald Ford-know nothing about any affairs.

Jimmy Carter committed adultery but only in his heart and preached forgiveness.

Reagan was first divorced president, at least in modern times. It signaled a new lowering of moral standards. Had their first child less than nine months after marriage-press did not write about it.
He seemed faithful to Nancy. I think he called her Mommy-so Pencian.

G H W Bush just one persistent rumor has followed him. He seems to get a senior pass for his more recent sexcapades-reaching out from his wheelchair to grab women and telling them naughty jokes. Maybe it's Parkinson medications.

Well, I just don't think Clinton is responsible for the sexual revolution or loosening of standards of behavior.
Had he been president in the 1960s we never would have heard about his sex life while he was in office.

In a sense his sex publicity is a perfect-storm product of the feminist movement of the 1970s, the sexual revolution, changing mores, and the free speech movement
The sex-crazed Christian Right railed against all of the above-but seized the opportunity they provided to wallow in the salacious-bless their hearts.

I suspect the Europeans ascribe our sex issues to our being a Puritan-founded nation.


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Me three. Nt BootinUp Nov 2017 #22
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Actually HILLARY'S fault for working to save their marriage elfin Nov 2017 #21
She was consenting and happy; they spoke together Hortensis Nov 2017 #29
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... nolabear Nov 2017 #12
and I went out to dinner with friends DURHAM D Nov 2017 #17
How Responsible Are John Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, and Thomas Jefferson? Leith Nov 2017 #9
Ah, the Almightly Clenis! So powerful it turned tRump into Pathwalker Nov 2017 #10
Caught that segment, Wellstone ruled Nov 2017 #14
Why not pose that same question without naming just one POTUS? BoneyardDem Nov 2017 #15
I guess Katy blames Bill for the way Trump treated her. nt DURHAM D Nov 2017 #16
Every since she has been in studio and not out on the trail DURHAM D Nov 2017 #18
He was punished heavily for his deeds with Lewinsky. NCTraveler Nov 2017 #19
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Bill Clinton was not the first nor will he be the last politician to screw around blueinredohio Nov 2017 #24
I think there was a message sent out that intimidated women from speaking out against others MichMan Nov 2017 #25
After having read her father's perspective on their estrangement, lapucelle Nov 2017 #26
A new word was coined? quartz007 Nov 2017 #27
and "bimbo eruptions" MichMan Nov 2017 #33
He is not. Period. It's a culture that has been with the human race for thousands of years. madinmaryland Nov 2017 #28
Why not blame JFK? WhiteTara Nov 2017 #30
yeah misogyny and sexual harassment never existed before Clinton Takket Nov 2017 #31
Eisenhower had an affair with a subordinate delisen Nov 2017 #32
Since the beginning of time. What about Lot and his daughters? mainer Nov 2017 #34
He paid a price for what he did, so what is he supposed to be responsible for? unblock Nov 2017 #35
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