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[Thayamax]

2/18
#1

LBJ's multiple affairs with many women were well known to everyone in Washington DC, including his wife. He often made passes at them right in front of her. Secretaries were said to get the Johnson Treatment and were promoted to "private secretaries" if they accepted his advances. Male aides referred to his bevy of women as "the harem". He was said to be jealous of the attention JFK's affairs got, and once when it was mentioned in front of him he slammed his fist on his desk and shouted, "I had more women by accident than Kennedy had on purpose."

 

[Ladybear]

2/18
1.......president scandals


Buchanan lamented to a friend that “I have gone wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any of them.”

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

 

[Thayamax]

2/18
#2

Apparently, Lyndon Johnson was very proud of the size of his male member. He felt free to urinate in public whenever the opportunity presented itself, and if someone confronted him about it, he would wave said member at him and ask, "Have you seen anything bigger than this?" He affectionately nicknamed his manhood Jumbo.

 

[Ladybear]

2/18
2. President skeletons


In his memoirs, longtime Johnson aide George Reedy painted an ugly portrait of LBJ, accusing him of being a womanizing, perverted drunkard who delighted in having conversations with people while he sat on the toilet for the sole purpose of making them uncomfortable and bullying his staff to the point of sadism. Johnson was especially fond of whipping out his manhood, which he’d dubbed “Jumbo,” in mixed company. There is even a story, possibly apocryphal, that he urinated on a Secret Service agent’s leg, claiming it was his “prerogative.” Johnson’s behavior could be so reprehensible that it has been suggested that he was likely mentally ill, possessed of more “‘grandiose narcissism” than any other president in history.

 

[mac63]

2/19
#1

Before Andrew Jackson was president, he married a woman named Rachel Donelson in 1791. She had previously been married and believed that she was legally divorced. However, after marrying Jackson, Rachel found out this was not the case. Her first husband charged her with adultery. Jackson would have to wait until 1794 to legally marry Rachel. Even though this happened over thirty years previously, it was used against Jackson in the election of 1828. Jackson blamed Rachel's untimely death two months before he took office on these personal attacks against him and his wife.

 

[mac63]

2/19
#2

Watergate has become synonymous with presidential scandal. In 1972, five men were caught breaking into the Democratic National Headquarters located at the Watergate business complex. As the investigation into this and the break-in at Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office (Ellsberg had published the secret Pentagon Papers) developed, Richard Nixon and his advisors worked to cover-up the crimes. He would have surely been impeached but resigned instead on August 9, 1974.

 

[jj2]

2/19

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The Credit Mobilier company was found to be stealing from the Union Pacific Railroad. However, they tried to cover this up by selling stocks in their company at a large discount to government officials and Congress members including Vice President Schuyler Colfax. When this was discovered, it hurt many reputations including that of Ulysses S. Grant's VP.

 

[jj2]

2/19

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Another scandal that occurred during Grant's presidency was the Whiskey Ring. In 1875, it was revealed that many government employees were pocketing whiskey taxes. Grant called for swift punishment but caused further scandal when he moved to protect his personal secretary who had been implicated in the affair.

 

[Sir2fyablyNutz]

2/19 #1

Warren G. Harding's presidency was struck by many scandals. The Teapot Dome scandal was the most significant. In this, Albert Fall, Harding's Secretary of the Interior, sold the right to the oil reserves in Teapot Dome, Wyoming and other locations in exchange for personal profit and cattle. He was eventually caught, convicted and sentenced to jail.

 

[Sir2fyablyNutz]

2/19 #2

Watergate has become synonymous with presidential scandal. In 1972, five men were caught breaking into the Democratic National Headquarters located at the Watergate business complex. As the investigation into this and the break-in at Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office (Ellsberg had published the secret Pentagon Papers) developed, Richard Nixon and his advisors worked to cover-up the crimes. He would have surely been impeached but resigned instead on August 9, 1974.

 

[Stosh]

2/19 #1

Andrew Johnson

Was drunk at Lincoln’s second inauguration. The event was described by a senator as follows.

“The inauguration went off very well except that the Vice President Elect was too drunk to perform his duties & disgraced himself & the Senate by making a drunken foolish speech. I was never so mortified in my life, had I been able to find a hole I would have dropped through it out of sight.”

 

[RaceGun59]

02-19 #1
.After President Bush Sr. vomited on the Japanese Prime Minister, a new word entered the Japanese language. Bushusuru means “to do the Bush thing,” or to publicly vomit.

 

[Stosh]

2/19 #2

Chester A. Arthur

Sold off all the furniture in the White House before moving in.
Lots of it dated back to the construction of the White House and any such pieces would be hugely valuable today.

 

[Thayamax]

2/19
#1

John Tyler was elected to serve as William Henry Harrison's Vice President and became the first VP to succeed to the presidency when Harrison died after only 1 month in office. Rather than serving as "acting president" and following Harrison's planned agenda, he worked his own agenda following his strong allegiance to the south. This resulted in all but one of his inherited cabinet members resigning, and his party withdrawing its political support. His nickname became "His Accidency".

 

[kathi17]

2/19 #1

Billy Beer was a beer first made in the United States of America in July 1977, by the Falls City Brewing Company. It was promoted by Billy Carter, the younger brother of then-President Jimmy Carter. The beer was produced by Cold Spring Brewing, West End Brewing, and Pearl Brewing Company. Since it was produced when Jimmy Carter was president, it must have been a bit embarrassing for him.

 

[liblue1]

2/19#1 Andrew Jackson Taught His Parrot To Curse..The parrot had to be removed from President Jackson's funeral because it wouldn't stop swearing.

 

[CountBoredom]

2/19 #1

Iran-Contra

This biggest political scandal in the United States that came to light in November 1986. During the Reagan administration, senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo. Several individuals in Ronald Reagan’s administration were implicated in the Iran-Contra Scandal. Basically, money that had been obtained through selling arms to Iran was given secretly to the revolutionary Contras in Nicaragua. Other than helping the Contras, the hope was that by selling the weapons to Iran, terrorists would be more willing to give up hostages. This scandal resulted in major Congressional hearings.

 

[liblue1]

2/19 #2 Martin Van Buren Popularized The Phrase "OK".......Supposedly, President Van Buren popularized one of the most commonly used phrases to date: "OK", or "Okay". Van Buren was from Kinderhook, NY which was also called "Old Kinderhook". His support groups came to be known as "O.K. Clubs" and the term OK came to mean "all right".

 

[Thayamax]

2/19
#2

John Tyler was the only president who sided with those who wanted to secede from the Union before the Civil War. He had worked towards an amicable split to avoid a war, but when that failed Tyler chose to join the Confederacy. He was elected to the Confederate Congress as a representative from Virginia. However, he died a month before he was to attend the first session of the Congress. Tyler was seen as a traitor and the federal government did not officially recognize his death for 63 years. He was instead given an elaborate Confederate funeral and his coffin was draped with a Confederate flag.

 

[super dave]

2/19