Name Five Famous American Politicians Who Were Caught Cheating on Their Wives?

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Answer 1

Most of the more recent affairs have already been mentioned, but such scandals aren't new or limited to after the 1950s or 60s when Kennedy was running around on Jackie.

Don't forget Franklin Delano Roosevelt. That affair of his was kept secret for a very long time.

According to what's at Wikipedia but can be verified elsewhere:

Roosevelt had affairs outside his marriage, including one with Eleanor's social secretary Lucy Mercer which began soon after she was hired in early 1914. In September 1918, Eleanor found letters revealing the affair in Roosevelt's luggage, when he returned from World War I. According to the Roosevelt family, Eleanor offered Franklin a divorce so that he could be with the woman he loved, but Lucy, being Catholic, could not bring herself to marry a divorced man with five children. Lucy's relatives, on the other hand, maintain that she wanted to marry Franklin but that "Eleanor was not willing to step aside." The two points of view are, according to FDR's biographer Jean Edward Smith, not mutually exclusive and it is generally accepted that Eleanor indeed offered "to give Franklin his freedom." However, they reconciled after a fashion with the informal mediation of Roosevelt's adviser Louis Howe, and FDR promised to never see Lucy again. Sara also intervened, and told Franklin that if he divorced his wife, he would bring scandal upon the family, and she "would not give him another dollar." Eleanor established a separate house in Hyde Park at Valkill. Their marriage has been labeled a "marriage of convenience."

Franklin and Lucy maintained a formal correspondence, but they did not begin to see each another again until 1941. Lucy was then given the code name "Mrs. Johnson" by the Secret Service.  Not until the 1960s was the affair publicly known.

Plus there were other sexually indiscreet politicians waaay back in the pre-Roosevelt days:

In the 18th Century, Thomas Jefferson went after a neighbor's wife, and fathered at least 5 children with an enslaved woman, Sally Hemmings.

Rumors were rife during the 1828 election that Andrew Jackson's wife was in a bigamous marriage with him.

Grover Cleveland fathered an illegitimate child...and still won the election.  

Benjamin Franklin also fathered illegitimiate children in and out of his relationship with a common law wife named Deborah Read.

There is at least one President suspected of being g*y: James Buchanan

Answer 2

Clinton

Edwards

and every single Kennedy man ever born..

All Dems, coincidence? I think not.

Answer 3

I think what a politition does in their personal life should not matter in thier day job.

Answer 4

Bill Clinton (do I need a link?)

John Edwards (again, do I need a link?)

Newt Gingrich

Rudy Giuliani

JFK  

Answer 5

me

Answer 6

Is it really our business?

And think about it for a minute.....   Did you ever stop to think that it wasnt cheating?  That their wives new about it and approved of it?  

Answer 7

Bill Clinton, John Edwards, John McCain (yes, look it up), Gary Hart, Jim McGreevey, Elliot Spitzer, Gary Condit

There are so many more that are known and I'm sure many more that are unknown. These are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

Answer 8

Just about all of them,I think but,it is not just the americans.British politicians also like getting between the sheets with an alternative to their wives,not to mention what the Royal Family get up to.

Edit........Eisenhower had an affair with his Endlish wartime driver and was going to dump his wife Mamie ? for her but,he was told that if he did,he could kiss his chances of becoming president goodbye.