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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver * Published on Jul 13, 2014
Warren G. Harding was a nasty, nasty president. John Oliver reads some of his recently released love letters.
- It's always the quiet ones you have to keep your eye on.....
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)I knew about Nan Britton, the teenaged girl Harding had sex with in a White House closet. She wrote a book in the 1920s called "The President's Daughter" after she had his child & it was a big scandal.
Nobody knew about this prior affair while Harding was in the Senate until the woman's descendants revealed these letters.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)2banon
(7,321 posts)maddiemom
(5,106 posts)is pretty much acknowledged in history classes these days.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)appear in history texts. Full disclosure: Harding is the only U.S. president, that I know of, who shows up well back in my Mom's family tree. Any time I was told that, by older relatives, it was with the admonition, "We don't brag about it."
2banon
(7,321 posts)classes.. It was after i left High School when I learned a lot about our real history.
2banon
(7,321 posts)Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)My dad was in high school in Ohio in the 1920s (Harding was from Ohio) and Dad said the gym teacher carried a copy of The President's Daughter around under his arm in a brown paper wrapper because it was a big scandal.
"Pink lips and pillowy breasts" sound romantic, anyway.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)maddiemom
(5,106 posts)used to be a popular "rhyme" at the time: "Ma, Ma, where's my Pa? Gone
to the White House, ha, ha ha"!
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)As President, he was good-for-nothing.
Archae
(46,312 posts)The GOP in the 1920's and further were so corrupt they stunk on ice.