Running the world’s biggest economy – at last count some US$22 trillion annual GDP – is no easy job. It is, however, with a heavy heart that we note that some presidential occupants of the White House have been compelled to find comfort in the arms of ladies who were not their wives. What are some examples?

Answer: Early 1920s Republican president Warren Harding chose a White House closet for his romantic liaisons and deployed his secret service agents to hand over hush money if and when required.

President Dwight D Eisenhower was accused of having an affair with his driver Captain Kay Summersby. Before she died in 1975, the former model said that the relationship “was never consummated”. It would be churlish to recap the amorous escapades at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue of President John F Kennedy with various ladies, such as the secretaries cruelly nicknamed Fiddle and Faddle.

Lyndon Johnson’s homespun Texas charm extended to allegedly fathering children with members of the White House typing pool and having to use all his powers of persuasive oratory when his wife Lady Bird Johnson interrupted him mid engagement with an adoring young lady. Bill Clinton remains one of the country’s most popular presidents despite much ballyhoo about interaction with a charming White House intern, who was merely in Washington trying to learn the ropes.

Source: General Historical Texts

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