European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 8, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A see accusations of Misbehaviour have Long had place in politic by Sio Moody the associated press sex is Only a heartthrob away from the seats of political Power. Allegations of sexual harassment against sen. Robert Packwood Are the latest in a Long line of affairs of state snarled in affairs of the libido. Reports Over the years of sexual misconduct a confirmed or alleged a might bolster a belief that that nation s capital has turned into a sexual carnival. A House Panja drum Wilbur Mills takes a Midnight dip with a stripper in Public Waters in the nation s capital. A presidential candidate Cary Hart challenges the Media to catch him in a sexual Dalliance. They oblige. A the hearings on judge Clarence Thomas nomination to the supreme court become concerned almost entirely with charges of his sexual harassment of female subordinates and his denial of them. A Bill Clinton s presidential Campaign is almost blown up by a Blond Bombshell who kisses and then tells or so she says. Firstly this is a scandal obsessed age when nothing is swept under the Rug. Secondly sex at the Summit is nothing new in this Republic a or any realm you can think of. If James Earl Carter confessed to occasional lust in his heart what walking David thinking when he spotted Bathsheba sponging herself europeans awash in Royal Bastardy and eminent Solup quaries often Marvel at american Grimness regarding sex. When in 1899 screams erupted from the private study of French president Felix Faure aides scurried to the scene. They found a certain distraught a and nude a Madame de Steinheil wife of a Painter and the Republic s Leader felled at a delicate moment by a fatal stroke. Frenchmen paid no mind to the lady but conjectured whether Faure had been poisoned by a cigarette Given him earlier in the Day by the Prince of Monaco. Americans however seem to like to hold their leaders George Washington wrote love letters to a married woman White he was engaged to Martha. To a higher Standard than they themselves might practice. If this be hypocrisy political Scanda mongers have made the most of it. In 1802, James Thomson. Callender a newspaper editor of few scruples but Large circulation tarred Thomas Jefferson with be sporting through the Chambers of Monticello with a slave Sally Hemings. Dumas Malone Jefferson s most exhaustive biographer says the Story is  author Fawn Brodie disagrees. Take your pick but remember the original source was from an editor who had no love for the president. The calenders of the Goode olde Days were the sources of Many Sulci scurrilous allegations. Our forebears seemed to have been More broadminded in matters of Venus the major complaints against a colonial governor of new Jersey for example was incompetence not that he used to dress up in drag. We have All but canonized Ceorge Washington. We remember Ceorge and the Cherry tree. A myth. We Overlook the love letters he wrote Sally Fairfax his neighbor s wife when engaged to Martha. A fact one must doubt that the supermarket tabloids of today would have sat on the Story. But Washington s contemporaries had they known probably would have shrugged a an estimated Quarter of the brides in Puritan new England were pregnant at the altar. Sex Way Back then was usually a cause for rib Aldry. The Boston Gazette reflecting the general racism of the time poetic Zed to the tune of Quot Yankee Doodle Quot the gossip about widower Jefferson and Hemings. Yankee Doodle what s the Noodle without a wife half so Handy ?. To Breed a flock of Sla ves for Stock a Blackamor s the Dandy. The journals were harder on Alexander Hamilton Over his affair with Maria Reynolds in 1791. He was after All Secretary of the Treasury and blackmail was involved a and he was virulently hated by Many. The affair began when Reynolds a stranger asked clockwise from above sen. Robert Packwood is facing allegations of sexual harassment Warren Harding had a torrid affair while president rumours of Grover Cleveland and an illegitimate child were mortal iced in a Campaign ditty. Hamilton for travelling Money to flee her philandering husband Quot some conversation ensued from which it was quickly apparent that other than pecuniary Consolation would to get acceptable Quot Hamilton recorded in a remarkable 95-Page confession six years later. Its purpose was to Clear his name of any fiscal irregularities with the husband who with Reynolds had set up Hamilton for blackmail Hamilton s career a and marriage a continued leaving John Adams hardly one to tolerate High level High Jinks to understate that the Secretary suffered from Quot a superabundance of secretions that he could not find enough whores to Drain . Daniel Webster giant of the Senate along with Henry Clay was suspected of having feet of the same substance. It was rumoured a later refuted a that he had taken a woman applying for a secretarial Job into a Back room where he encircled her Waist Quot in his Brawny arms Quot she said he said Quot this my dear is one of the prerogatives of my office Quot that being Secretary of state. Eight years later in 1850, a Pittsburgh newspaper claimed Webster had a negro mistress. The Lowell mass., american said it had t heard such Quot but the fact that he had a mistress of some color is we suppose As notorious As any other fact concerning  nonetheless Webster s abiding reputation As a compromised relates not to his love life but to the Compromise of 1850 which staved off civil War for a decade. Sex threatened to run away with the 1884 presidential Campaign when republicans dug up one Maria Halpryn 18 the stars and stripes wedge sofa