Article: Roosevelt's girlfriends.(Tilting at Windmills)(Brief Article)

Back to the relationship of a politician's sex life to his public role. I remember being on NBC's "Meet the Press" one Sunday in December 1998 with William Satire, Sally Quinn, and Tim Russert. My fellow panelists took a stern view of President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky and his lies about it. I said that unfortunately lots of otherwise good people committed adultery and lied about it to protect their wives, children, and themselves. As I looked around the table, it occurred to me that Safire, before becoming a columnist, had worked for years in public relations in New York, a world that did not abound in innocence. Quinn's friends, I knew, were drawn ...

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