the person elected to the highest office in the land holds a sacred duty to protect and serve the people of the Republic that being said good luck finding a person who doesn't have some kind of proverbial skeleton in their closet today we're taking a deep dive into some of the most bizarre and politically damaging sex scandals surrounding the highest office in the land but before we get started be sure to subscribe to the weird History Channel after that leave a comment and let us know what other Infamous time periods you would like like to hear
about okay let's investigate when Grover Cleveland was running for president in 1884 his political Rivals wasted no time in slinging all the mud they could at him years later they alleged Cleveland had a mistress and a lovech child they capped off the rumors with the anti Cleveland chant ma ma where's my P oh that's catchy however unlike some other nasty rumors that have plagued various presidents there was truth to these rumors Cleveland really did have a lover for many years Maria Halpin in 1874 she had given birth to a son she called Oscar fulam Cleveland
Cleveland refused to marry halpen instead he arranged for Oscar to go to an orphanage and for Helen to go to an institution the Scandal made news when it went National in 1884 but it didn't derail Cleveland's campaign he won the election and since since he's been mostly remembered as one of those presidents who has a very memorable name but you don't really know anything specific about but now you [Music] do jonath Kennedy is as famous for his alleged Affairs as he was for his Politics as recently as 2013 decades after his assassination new details about
his clandestin romantic life have emerged one woman who claims to have had an affair with him is Mimi Alford who first met the president in 1962 Alford was a 19-year-old college student when she and Kennedy began an 18-month Affair it wasn't a romantic affair she told NBC I don't really remember the president of her kissing me I certainly didn't learn how to have a real relationship through that relationship some of Kennedy's other lovers had troubling ties one of them Judith exner even claimed that she acted as a go between for Kennedy and Sam ganana a
mobster and of course we've all heard the rumors about the figurehead of Camelot and a breathy blonde movie Starlet needless to say JFK was the most prolific serial philanderer however the scale of his sex scandals never reached the highest of some of the other individuals on this list due to the fact that he was Gunn down well before his time the tragedy of his passing undoubtedly quelled the potential for public [Music] embarrassment Franklin Delano Roosevelt met Lucy Mercer in 1913 when she began working as a secretary for his wife Elanor her job meant that she
was frequently in the Roosevelt's Family Circle by 1918 Roosevelt and Mercer's relationship had turned romantic much to Eleanor's Devastation she learned of the affair when she discovered love letters that Mercer had written to FDR the Roosevelt's decided divorce wasn't on the table with FDR's political career so they continue their marriage and a new kind of partnership in exchange FDR agreed to stop seeing Merc by the end of Roosevelt's presidency however Mercer had re-entered his life she was visiting him when he died in 1945 the affair remained a secret until 1966 when writer Jonathan Daniels revealed
it in his book the time between the [Music] wars when Warren G Harding married Florence cing in 1891 he became the stepfather of King's son from her first marriage the couple never had children together but Harding had one with a lover in 1917 he began a fair with Nan Brittain a teenager who was 30 years younger than him 3 years later Britain gave birth to a daughter Elizabeth though Harding did not officially recognize Elizabeth as his child he nonetheless sent payments to Britain for the baby the payment stopped with Harding's death in 1923 Harding's family
refused to validate Britain's allegations about Harding so she published a tellal book in 1927 to generate some money for her daughter in 20 2015 questions of Elizabeth's paternity were finally put to rest when scientists tested her son's DNA and confirmed that he was Harding's descendant Thomas Jefferson's marriage to Martha Wills Skelton in 1772 began a decade of what he called uncheered Happiness her death in 1782 devastated him Jefferson never remarried that doesn't mean he never had relationships with other women women most notably Jefferson maintained a liaison with Sally hemings an enslaved worker at monello his
Virginia estate since hemings was an enslaved woman it's hard to discern if she consented to Jefferson's advances and it's difficult to qualify their relationship beyond that over their 38-year relationship Jefferson fathered hemings six children hemings had another connection to Jefferson's family she was his wife's half sister they shared a father who had impregnated Hemming's enslaved mother Jefferson's relationship with hemings has long been a source of controversy even in his own lifetime in 1802 during Jefferson's presidency journalist James Kender published a series of articles about Jefferson and Hemming's relationship this all being said President Jefferson never
publicly acknowledged these stories or took responsibility for these actions woodro Wilson is remembered as one of the few presidents who got married during his term in office in 1915 he married Edith G only a year earlier Wilson's first wife Ellen had passed away but another intimate relationship defined much of Wilson's career his friendship and perhaps something more with Mary peek a socialite and divor Wilson and peek met in Bermuda a playground for The American Elite in 1907 when he was still married to his first wife Ellen the pair exchanged letters and the president was remarkably
candid with her he openly discussed everything with her from politics to indigestion to dental ailments to his hopes and dreams Ellen Wilson was apparently hurt by her husband's attachment to peek though she did nothing to curtail the relationship when she died in 1914 the president regretted the pain his friendship with peek had caused her Wilson soon became engaged to Edith G his friends and advisers eager to make him reconsider remarrying so soon after his first wife's death began rumors about an affair between peek and the President Wilson was privately able to clear the air with
his fiance and the marriage went on as planned several people tried to pay Mary peek for access to Wilson's letters to her but ever a devoted friend she refused holding on to them until after Wilson's death in 1924 the Vietnam War cast a dark shadow over Lyndon B Johnson's presidency after all his administration accelerated and intensified the United States st's involvement in the war a decision that polarized the nation the war even polarized parts of Johnson's private life his wife lady bir Johnson was an incredibly influential first lady and it seemed that the couple had
a strong marriage despite this the president pursued many extramarital Affairs one of them was a decades long relationship with Alice glass from the late 1930s until the 1960s glass was a presence in Johnson's life and even provided political counsel but the Vietnam War got an the way of their relationship glass was against the war and this became one of the reasons the affair finally [Music] ended Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign had a potential problem in Stormy Daniels Daniels an adult film star alleged that she and the Republican candidate had engaged in a sexual encounter in
2006 while he was married to his third wife Melania moreover Melania had recently given birth to Trump's fifth child at the time of the alleged encounter concerned that voters would drop their support of trump if Daniels went public with her claim he and his team offered Daniels $130,000 as part of a non-disclosure agreement commonly called hush money those payments were classified in business records as legal fees which led in 2024 to Trump being convicted of multiple felonies currently under appeal by a jury in a New York state court for falsifying records and furtherance of another
unspecified crime when Andrew Jackson married Rachel Donaldson in 1791 he became his new bride's second husband she had previously been married to Lewis Robards in 1806 the subject of his wife's first marriage unexpectedly came up Charles Dickinson a horse breeder in Tennessee accused Jackson of refusing to pay a bet he uped the antie by calling the future president a number of names including calling him a bigamist Rachel Donaldson son claimed had still been married to her first husband when Jackson went her enraged that Dickinson dragged his wife's good name into their conflict Jackson challenged the
man to a duel he silenced Dickinson by killing him truly the most extreme way of resolving an argument what do most people remember now that Andrew Jackson shot someone do they remember why no no not at all the most scandalous was saved for last in 1995 21-year-old Monica Lewinsky obtained an internship at the White House which put her in close proximity to President Bill Clinton soon enough Clinton and Linsky had a number of sexual encounters before she transferred to the Pentagon the next year 3 years later news of the encounters broke Clinton then in his
second term denied any involvement with Linsky accusations against him mounted suggesting that he had lied under oath and obstructed Justice about his Rel relationship with Linsky during the discovery phase in a sexual harassment lawsuit lodged against Clinton by Paula Jones he even went so far as to publicly claim I did not have sexual relations with that woman Miss Lewinsky in a grand jury Clinton finally admitted the truth he had in fact been involved with Monica Lewinsky but depending on how one defined sexual relations he claimed he had been technically telling the truth not satisfied the
house launched an impeachment investigation against the president in 1998 though the Senate ultimately acquitted him the previously mentioned scandals show just how difficult it is to be president all of your flaws shortcomings and moments of weaknesses are broadcast for the world to see the sexual Dianes of the president are definitely of interest to the greater American public however what they truly underline is that The Human Condition is riddled with inconsistencies and weakness and that makes news so what do you think is there another Scandal that we left out let us know in the comments below
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