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[CountBoredom]

2/21 #1

Debategate or briefing-gate was a political scandal affecting the administration of Ronald Reagan; it took place in the final days of the 1980 presidential election. Reagan's team had somehow acquired President Jimmy Carter's briefing papers he used in preparation for the October 28, 1980 debate with Reagan. The briefing papers were never specified to be vital strategy memos or just routine position papers. This leak of campaign papers was not divulged to the public until late June 1983, after Laurence Barrett published Gambling With History: Reagan in the White House, an in-depth account of the Reagan administration's first two years.

 

[bellastarr]

2/21
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Lyndon Baines Johnson “LBJ”(1908-1973) affectionately called the many women he slept with his “harem.” He even had a buzzer system installed that rang inside the Oval Office so that Secret Service could warn him when his wife was coming.

 

[Stosh]

2/21 #2

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Rode In Al Capone’s Impounded Car

When Capone was imprisoned for tax evasion, the US Treasury Department seized his car. However, it was put to good use, becoming the vehicle of choice for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt the days following the attack on Pearl Harbor, when Secret Service agents feared his life might be in danger. The car they had been using, a 1939 Lincoln V12 convertible called the “Sunshine Special,” lacked the necessary armoring.

 

[bellastarr]

2/21
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Dwight D. Eisenhower had an affair with his wartime driver, Kay Summersby (1908-1975). Kay later wrote a book called Past Forgetting: My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower in which she claims he was impotent

 

[CountBoredom]

2/21 #2

The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made on September 23, 1952 by the Republican vice presidential candidate, California Senator Richard Nixon. Nixon had been accused of improprieties relating to a fund established by his backers to reimburse him for his political expenses. With his place on the Republican ticket in doubt, he flew to Los Angeles and delivered a half-hour television address in which he defended himself, attacked his opponents, and urged the audience to contact the Republican National Committee (RNC) to tell it whether he should remain on the ticket. During the speech, he stated that regardless of what anyone said, he intended to keep one gift: a black-and-white dog who had been named Checkers by the Nixon children, thus giving the address its popular name.

 

[liblue1]

2/21 #1 James Polk Promised Not To Seek A Second Term If Elected...Polk, probably aware that many other politicians desired to run for the office, made an explicit campaign promise that if he was elected president, he would leave after 4 years, a promise that he kept.

 

[yasmin817]

2/21 #1

What happens in the White House, stays in the White House ...

 

[liblue1]

2/21 #2 Taylor Had A Really Cool Nickname.......Zachary Taylor's nickname was "Old Rough And Ready", which he acquired from admiring soldiers while he was fighting in the Seminole War.

 

[yasmin817]

2/21 #2

 

[Ladybear]

2/21
President skeletons


James K. Polk
A nationwide movement of skeptics insisted that Polk's birth certificate was a forgery, and that he was actually a Turkish-born non-citizen named Klop K. Semaj. Though their case was never proven, they irritated Polk out of running for a second term.

 

[Ladybear]

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Martin Van Buren
Van Buren was mercilessly lampooned by the press when eagle-eyed pundits noticed that he had, in his youth, appeared as an uncredited extra in the Cinemax erotic anthology series "Passion Cove."

 

[kathi17]

2/21 #1



The Presidential Election of 1800 between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson was one of only two elections that resulted in the House of Representatives deciding who would be President of the United States. It was also the only time where there was a tie for President in the Electoral College. Although it wasn't a tie, the House of Representatives also had to decide the President in the election of 1824, between Adams son John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson, when no candidate reached the required majority of electoral votes.

 

[mac63]

2/22
#1

Dwight D. Eisenhower had an affair with his driver, Kay Summersby, who wrote about the relationship in a book published six years after Ike’s death. Although some scholars have disputed the affair, President Harry Truman reportedly told author Merle Miller that in 1945, Eisenhower asked permission from General George Marshall to divorce his wife to marry Summersby. Eisenhower biographer Jean Edward Smith writes, “Whether he and Kay were intimate remains a matter of conjecture. But there is no question they were in love.”

 

[mac63]

2/22
#2

FDR had a lifelong affair with Lucy Mercer, who was Eleanor Roosevelt’s “social secretary.” The romance between Mercer and Franklin likely began in 1916, when Eleanor and the children were vacationing to avoid the summer heat, while Franklin remained in Washington, D.C. Eleanor discovered a packet of love letters from Mercer in his suitcase in 1918 and subsequently offered her husband a divorce, but the couple remained married, though the first lady focused increasingly on social work and nurturing her own career for the remainder of FDR’s presidency.

 

[jj2]

2/22

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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.

 

[jj2]

2/22

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Bill Clinton was implicated in a couple of scandals, the most significant for his presidency was the Monica Lewinsky affair. Lewinsky was a White House staffer with whom Clinton had an intimate relationship, or as he later put it, an "improper physical relationship." He had previously denied this while giving a deposition in another case which resulted in a vote to impeach him by the House of Representatives in 1998. The Senate did not vote to remove him from office but the event did mar his presidency as he joined Andrew Johnson as only the second president to be impeached.

 

[Sir2fyablyNutz]

2/22 #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]

2/22 #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.

 

[Thayamax]

2/22
#1

Franklin Delano Roosevelt wore dresses and looked like a girl until he was about 5 years old. The strange part is that's how all young boys of the time dressed. They wore dresses until around the age of 5 to 7 when they usually got their first haircuts. Gender specific clothing and colors didn't start becoming popular until well after WWI.

 

[CountBoredom]

2/22 #1

The Newport sex scandal arose in 1919 from the United States Navy's investigation of illicit sexual behavior on the part of Navy personnel in Newport, Rhode Island. It targeted homosexual contacts between Navy personnel and the civilian population. Initially it attracted little public notice, but eventually the investigation – its methods and use of enlisted personnel – and the trial attracted national news coverage and provoked a Congressional investigation that ended with Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and Assistant Secretary of the Navy – future President of the United States – Franklin D. Roosevelt being rebuked by a Congressional committee.