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In reply to the discussion: How much is Bill Clinton responsible for the culture today? [View all]delisen
(7,314 posts)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.