23 Alleged Presidential Extramarital Affairs

16. Lyndon B. Johnson

Helen G. Douglas was an actress on Broadway and in Hollywood before Lyndon B. Johnson met her. That was in the 1920s. By the ’30s she moved into the political sphere of D.C., a vocal member of the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League. Douglas became close with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt while he was in office and eventually ran for office herself. She became a representative for California in 1944, putting her close to President Lyndon B. Johnson. Their affair was an open secret in D.C. for years.

15. John F. Kennedy Fourth Offense

Either JFK was the worst offender of any president or he was the worst at hiding his activities. As president, he had contact with many interns. One, Mimi Alford, who was only 19-years-old at the time, caught his eye like a fish hook. That’s putting it lightly. In what the press would characterize today as a gross misappropriation of power, they carried on an 18-month relationship. Then Kennedy became bored with the affair and moved on. 



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