Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nothing was said. Harding, of course, was elected, and presided for three years over the most scandal-scarred Administration in U.S. history. After his death in 1923, another woman, Nan Britton, wrote a book describing a long love affair with Harding, one that began in 1917. She had borne his daughter, Nan claimed, and had continued her clandestine affair with Harding through the years of his presidency...
Slow Boat. The love affair was a stormy one, so it was no surprise that it began to fade in 1920. When Harding was summoned to the historic smoke-filled room at Chicago's Blackstone Hotel during the 1920 G.O.P. presidential convention, he was asked pointedly if he knew of any embarrassing family skeletons that might hurt the party's chances. Harding asked for time to think, ten minutes later announced that he was as clean as a hound's tooth. Harding apparently tried to extricate himself from his love affair, and there is some evidence...
...want to do gossip," Pamela says defensively. "I do opinion. Movie-star gossip isn't interesting unless you're having an affair with Richard Burton...
...mansion home of the chief of state, it somehow seemed a remarkable affair. But for Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson it all fit easily and naturally as a woodsman's felt crusher. In seven months in the White House they have put on at least 25 major wingdings, including eight state dinners-each with a minimum of preening, a maximum of fun and easy conviviality. After all, who else in the world could comfortably mix Jimmy Durante, John Dos Passes and David Rockefeller with a teen-age twist party...
...furious, issued broadsides from behind the closed doors of her fashionable Left Bank apartment, fired off letters of protest to President Johnson. But she was not so furious as to lose her head completely. An American correspondent, trying to get Madame Nhu's firsthand version of the whole affair, knocked on the apartment door, was met by her daughter Le Thuy, and the following conversation took place: Le Thuy: Surely you know that Madame will not see journalists without payment in advance? Reporter: How much, if we just talk about the visa? Le Thuy: For how much time? Reporter...