A reader writes:
When FDR was elected in 1933, he moved to the White House and Eleanor moved to 20 East 9th Street in Manhattan. A plaque on the building says she lived there until 1942. She then moved to an apartment house on Washington Square West (I forget the number, but I can walk over and find it if you would like me to do so). A plaque on that building says she lived there until something like 1949. Eleanor had her girlfriend in New York and Franklin had his girlfriend in Washington and on his vacations. Nobody reported any of this, not even when FDR died in his girlfriend's presence. People were cool in the 1940s.
Now, Tiger Woods, Clinton, the Edwardses, etc. are big stories. Why should anyone care?
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