European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 8, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A High Quot a id enry Tance. I a it a she is oif mass., t he rious tial pin who claimed Crover Cleveland was the father of her 8-year-old son Oscar Folsom Cleveland born on the wrong Side of the Blanket. Cleveland the democratic candidate assumed paternity in lieu of other great and Good friends of Hatpin a and himself a on the grounds that they were All married and he was t. Gleeful republicans burst into verse mama where s my a. Cone to the White House a a a Cleveland had some minor matrimonial dirt on his opponent James g. Blaine which he ordered his aides to throw in the wastebasket. His advice to his Campaign staff Quot Tell the  Warren Harding was not compelled to follow such counsel. His administration s scandals outlived him. He died in midterm before Nan Britton made Public their steamy love affair. It began in 1916 when the 20-year-old Britton told sep. Harding that she had had a crush on her Hometown hero since High school in Marion Ohio. In Between torrid trysts in new York Harding wrote her 50-and 60-Page love notes during languid sessions on the Senate floor. Thomas Jefferson is alleged to have kept a slave mistress at Monticello. A a a a s&&gu�8churtter stories about the sex life of John f. Kennedy shown Here in Vienna with wife Jacqueline took some of the Shine off Camelot at the 1920 gop convention in Chicago politicos fought interminably Over Harding s nomination in the famous smoke filled room while the senator cuddled with Nan in her scented boudoir a few blocks away. She watched his acceptance speech from a Back seat while her sister sat with their infant daughter. Once elected the president and Nan made love among the umbrellas and galoshes of a coat room off the Oval office while secret service agent Warren Ferguson stymied a suspicious and furious mrs. Hoarding known As the Duchess from battering Down the door. Years later a Long and impatient line formed outside another coat room this one at the humongous old mansion of the Vanderbilt in Newport r.i., the Breakers. The guests at a White tie Charity Ball were told the cloakroom was off limits until the Junior senator from Massachusetts emerged with his Date. The presidential sex life of that senator John f. Kennedy has stimulated revision of the idyllic portrait of Camelot on the Potomac. Starting with interludes Between inaugural balls Kennedy left a record of White House hospitality that May never have been surpassed. Such As sharing the mistress of a mafia Don to name one of Many mentioned in Richard Reeves current biography of Kennedy. How this might affect his place in history is moot. Franklin d. Roosevelt is not Best remembered for a 30-year relationship with Eleanor s onetime social Secretary Lucy Page Mercer later mrs. Rutherfurd which ended Only when he died a died in her presence while sitting for a portrait for her Niece. Americans still liked Ike despite his Strong affection. Overseas for his wartime chauffeur Kay Summersby. Indisputably the biggest Flap of the political bedclothes one that did indeed alter the course of the ship of state entered on one Peggy Nee Margaret o Neale Timberlake first husband Eaton second husband. Peggy s father ran an inn Between the capital and Georgetown and Peggy was equally accommodating. Hardly 15, she had already caused a Duel her elopement soon after was foiled when she awakened her father by kicking Over a Flower pot while crawling out a window. Timberlake on leave while his accounts As a Navy Purser were audited espied Peggy in the tavern taproom and declared he would meet her by 6 . He did and by 11 had her Promise to wed. They did in 1816 when she was Sweet 16. Then sen. John Henry Eaton of Tennessee a Friend of president to be Andrew Jackson became an admirer. He pulled strings to have Timberlake assigned to sea duty leaving Peggy All to himself. When Timberlake returned his accounts were once again in question. Eaton gave him $10,000 to help balance the Bolcs then finagle Timberlake to sea for four More years aboard the . Constitution. Peggy meanwhile fought off the attentions of Richard k. Call a Boarder at the o Neale tavern and another Friend of Jackson a with a Coal shovel in a display of unaccustomed virtue that evoked old Hickory a lasting admiration. Thus when Jackson was elected president and named Eaton his Secretary of War he pressured him to marry Peggy to present a licit domesticity to Washington society. Presidential candidate Cary Hart was caught engaging in some Monkey business with Donna Rice in 1987. Timberlake had died from pneumonia officially from too much grog according to his shipmates Washington society however was All too familiar with Peggy and her Saga and turned its backs and closed its doors on her. This included most notably the wife of vice president John Calhoun. Furious at the snubs Jackson who had survived slurs of marrying a bigamist himself technically so but the couple did not know Rachel Jackson s divorce was not official was furious and threatened to fire any Cabinet officer who shunned the companionable Peggy. Disharmony crippled the administration and did nothing to help strained relations Between Jackson and Calhoun the states rights southerner. Eaton finally got the message and resigned As did the whole Cabinet. Eaton subsequently drank his Way through an ambassador ship to Spain where Peggy bruised but unbowed took up cigars the smoke Curling upward As she passed into history. Fite Les Day december 8,1993 the stars and stripes