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Time for another edition of Republicans Who Love To Fuck: Warren G. Harding - Horndog In Chief
A retrospective on Republicans of the past and present who actually love to knock boots and get down to do the nasty.
These guys would say that the anti-sex crowd in the GOP of today are just plain weird.
Warren Harding (1865-1923): A Sporting Ladies Man
Jan 9, 2012Feather Schwartz Foster
No question about it, Warren G. Harding liked the ladies - and his taste was not inclined to the home and hearth domestic type.
Irwin H. “Ike” Hoover, the Chief Usher at the White House for more than forty years described the private Harding as a ladies’ man – but a “sporting ladies man.” It is a term few have used in the last half century, but the idea needs no explanation. Harding liked fast trotters from the beginning.
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Warren Harding and Carrie Phillips
Jim and Carrie Phillips were Harding neighbors in Marion, Ohio. Jim owned a dry-goods store downtown, and was a regular advertiser in the newspaper that Harding owned. Carrie and the Duchess had become good friends. The two couples entertained each other, socialized frequently, and even traveled to Europe together. Unknown to Jim Phillips (and to Florence – at least for a long time), Warren and Carrie Phillips had fallen in love, and were carrying on a torpid and steamy love affair. In the days before email and texting, the journalistically inclined Harding exchanged dozens of surprisingly graphic letters with Mrs. Phillips.
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Warren Harding and Nan Britton
With the Phillipses safely spirited out of the country, and with other romantic (albeit less serious) letters ransomed from various other Harding amours, Warren and Florence Harding were on their way to the White House. But unbeknownst to just about everyone except the intimately concerned, Senator Harding had become involved with a young woman who had lived down the street from them in Marion.
Always a precocious type, according to those who knew her, Nan Britton had had a crush on the handsome middle-aged Harding since she was a child. Now a young woman of nineteen, she wrote to him for help getting a secretarial position in New York. The Senator was happy to oblige with a letter of recommendation – and an offer to take her to lunch next time he was in New York. That opportunity presented itself shortly thereafter, and lunch became a “matinee”. A few more matinees became a baby. And the matinees continued into the White House anteroom.
http://feather-schwartz-foster.suite101.com/warren-harding-1865-1923-a-sporting-ladies-man-a400670
Jan 9, 2012Feather Schwartz Foster
No question about it, Warren G. Harding liked the ladies - and his taste was not inclined to the home and hearth domestic type.
Irwin H. “Ike” Hoover, the Chief Usher at the White House for more than forty years described the private Harding as a ladies’ man – but a “sporting ladies man.” It is a term few have used in the last half century, but the idea needs no explanation. Harding liked fast trotters from the beginning.
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Warren Harding and Carrie Phillips
Jim and Carrie Phillips were Harding neighbors in Marion, Ohio. Jim owned a dry-goods store downtown, and was a regular advertiser in the newspaper that Harding owned. Carrie and the Duchess had become good friends. The two couples entertained each other, socialized frequently, and even traveled to Europe together. Unknown to Jim Phillips (and to Florence – at least for a long time), Warren and Carrie Phillips had fallen in love, and were carrying on a torpid and steamy love affair. In the days before email and texting, the journalistically inclined Harding exchanged dozens of surprisingly graphic letters with Mrs. Phillips.
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Warren Harding and Nan Britton
With the Phillipses safely spirited out of the country, and with other romantic (albeit less serious) letters ransomed from various other Harding amours, Warren and Florence Harding were on their way to the White House. But unbeknownst to just about everyone except the intimately concerned, Senator Harding had become involved with a young woman who had lived down the street from them in Marion.
Always a precocious type, according to those who knew her, Nan Britton had had a crush on the handsome middle-aged Harding since she was a child. Now a young woman of nineteen, she wrote to him for help getting a secretarial position in New York. The Senator was happy to oblige with a letter of recommendation – and an offer to take her to lunch next time he was in New York. That opportunity presented itself shortly thereafter, and lunch became a “matinee”. A few more matinees became a baby. And the matinees continued into the White House anteroom.
http://feather-schwartz-foster.suite101.com/warren-harding-1865-1923-a-sporting-ladies-man-a400670
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