Warren G. Harding

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ROUND UP

Movie Stars to Porn Stars: All the Presidents’ Mistresses

Infidelity by those in America’s highest office appears to be a time-honored tradition.

Josh Fiallo

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GREAT AMERICAN SCANDALS

The Dirty Dealings in D.C.’s Most Scandalous Private Club

The Little Green House on K Street was “part brothel, part speakeasy”—and the center of sordid deals and scandals conducted by President Warren G. Harding’s friends and appointees.

Allison McNearney

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HISTORY LESSONS

Sex Scandals & ‘America First’: This President Was Trump 1.0

A critically inexperienced candidate running on the ‘America First’ platform whose White House was rocked with corruption and sex scandals.

Peter Mikelbank

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Sticks and Stones

Donald Trump: The First Doxxer-in-Chief

We’re in uncharted territory. Even Richard Nixon didn’t make a public display of his enemies list.

Michael Tomasky

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PRESIDENTIAL PALATES

How to Make Presidential Waffles

At least the walk of shame from the notorious philanderer would have taken place on a full stomach.

Ailsa von Dobeneck

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TRADITION

As Always, US Adores a Good Sex Scandal

Amid the hand-wringing over the gutter-level sexual exchanges between Trump and Cruz, it doesn’t hurt to remember that it has been ever thus in American politics.

Jack Schwartz

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Operation: Get Noticed

Kasich Doesn’t Want to Play Nice Anymore

Banking off his attack Tuesday on Trump and Carson (‘I’ve had it’), the formerly amiable Ohio governor went straight for the billionaire’s jugular at the CNBC debate.

Gideon Resnick

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Baby Mama

Our Dirtiest President’s Mistress Speaks

Nan Britton wrote a scandalous account of an affair that started when she was a teenager and continued until she got pregnant by the president of the United States.

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Open Secret

The Illegitimate Children of American Presidents

DNA evidence proved Thursday that confirmed bachelor Warren Harding also fathered a child. He joins Thomas Jefferson and more presidents with secret kids—and the list could grow.

Gideon Resnick

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Infatuation

Fifty Shades of Presidential FanFiction

While Warren G. Harding was a real life lothario, for those presidents who don’t have love letters, Internet fanfiction will have to suffice. (Warning: Mitt Romney is in here.)

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Viral Vid: Warren G. Regulates Harding

90s rap star recites 29th president’s newly released love letters to mistress

Alex Chancey

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