The physical attributes of America’s first ladies have often been the subject of speculation and innuendo especially in the hands of political opponents of our chief executives. It is commonly agreed that Dolly Madison had the largest breasts of any first lady and that Helen Taft had the largest buttocks as she was well matched with her husband William Howard Taft. Lucretia Garfield was of course greatly renowned for her vestigial vagina that was the subject of songs and stories during James Garfield’s presidency.
A little know fact was that the wife of Warren G Harding did in fact have a wooden leg that was the result of a sexual affair that had gone awry. Florence Kling was the divorced daughter of Harding’s hated rival who “vigorously pursued” the Ohio newspaperman with series of depraved sexual escapades that led to their marriage. Florence Harding was the driving force in the popular ladies man political career and they delighted in having sex in strange and unusual places. Harding delighted in having sex with her supine on his desk in the editor’s office where he would unscrew his wife’s leg and use her other leg as a rudder to turn her around and around to have access to various orifices. The lies and excuses that they created to cover up their activities from their inquisitive reporters led to the practice of “spinning” that has endured to this very day.
(The Long and the Short of It, Presidential Penises by Doris Kearns Goodwin, St. Martins Press).
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I thought Wilt Chamberlain had the market cornered, so to speak, on spinning.
Grover Cleveland dipped his wick, to use Mark Twain's expression, many times with his lady friend, while in the White House before bowing to pressure and making it respectable by marrying her. That's either true or I'm making it up but I do believe Grover was right up there with Harding as a womanizer.
Grover was a rover there is no doubt.
Grover Cleveland was the Bill Clinton of the 19th century. Draft dodger, ladies man, whatever.
This definitely ruins my plans to run for president.
A good read
Florence Mabel Harding was nicknamed the Dutchess, and when her husband died unexpectedly in 1923, some suspected her of engineering his demise. Most doubt that to be the case, although given her husband's propensity for extra-marital dalliances, many would understand if she had.
http://potus-geeks.livejournal.com/328434.html
The Concept of a Noble Lie
Plato’s ‘Noble Lie’, albeit arguably a notion of ideological propaganda, is often where the debate begins concerning ‘expertise’. Plato did not believe most people were clever enough to look after their own and society’s best interest, so the few ‘clever’ people of the world needed to lead the rest of the flock. Therefore, the idea was born that only the elite should know the truth in its complete form and the rulers, Plato said, must tell the people of the city ‘The Noble Lie’ to keep them passive and content, without the risk of upheaval and unrest.
http://goodstuffsworld.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-concept-of-noble-lie.html
Mashable. c. 1900
Mr. Gillingham's artificial limbs This is among the best.
Ha ha ha. I thought that was a knife sheath but it turns out to be a cat flap.
This is half. The front view is also shown.
Now, you can say, Chip, c'mon, that's rude to laugh at this unfortunate victim. But I'll tell you, that old thing reminds me of my Pappy's wooden leg and that thing scared the living shit out of me. It's more macabre when it's not attached to a person.
But not enough to have consider using the chamber pot.
That was another thing that scared the shit to stay in me.
Just visiting was a horrible double pressure of scaring the shit out of me and induce a state of anxious constipation, an unbearable duality of opposing forces caused by a wooden leg standing up on its own in a corner and chamber pot.
What a bizarre place. And the extended Pennsylvania family is even more bizarre.
Grover was sued for having an illegitimate child, so he one-upped Harding, who seems to have been kinkier than Jack Kennedy and Willie combined, although, unlike them, his wife seems to have been just as wild.
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