Why do some presidential sexual relations become major scandals while others don't even make the news?
🚩In this interview:
►Are presidential love affairs different than sexual relations?
►What defines a scandal? The nature of the act or the politics of the moment?
►JFK's sexual relations
►FDR's love affairs
►Cleveland's sex scandals and great love story
►Clinton's sexual relations
►Jackson's scandals - heartbreak & Cabinet's shutdown
►Washington's great love
►Epstein's sex scandal vs. others
►Character is King!
🚩About My 183rd Guest Scholars:
Dr. Robert Watson is a Distinguished Professor of American History & Avron Fogelman Research Professor at Lynn University, and also the Director of Project Civitas, an initiative to promote civility both on campus and in the community in politics and all other aspects. He has published 200 scholarly articles and over 45 books, including "Affairs of State: The Untold History of Presidential Love, Sex and Scandal", which we discuss in this interview.
Dr. Watson's forthcoming book is "Declaration: The Story of American Independence", in which he revisits America's Founding - just in time for our nation's 250th anniversary in 2026.
You have likely watched Dr. Watson talk about history on TV, for example on CNN, MSNBC on The Daily Show. In addition, Dr. Watson has worked with or lectured for some of our nation's most preeminent historic sites, such as the Truman Presidential Library, Ford Presidential Museum, US Military Academy at West Point, the National Archives, the Smithsonian Institution, the Pentagon, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Society of the Cincinnati, Gettysburg National Battlefield, National Civil War Museum, Mount Rushmore, US Capitol Historical Society and the White House Historical Association.
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