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Article: Whose bed am I in?(Wendell Willkie and Franklin Roosevelt's sex lives and media)(Brief Article)
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- The Washington Monthly
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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Both Wendell Willkie and Franklin Roosevelt had sex lives that would not have escaped the attention of today's media. Willkie had many affairs ranging from Madame Chiang Kai-Shek to the Southern writer Josephine Pinckney, the most notable and long-lasting of which was with Irita Van Doren, the book editor of the New York Herald Tribune. Franklin Roosevelt had affairs with Lucy Mercer Rutherford and his secretary, Missy Lehand, and probably with Margaret Suckley, Dorothy Schiff, and Princess Martha of Norway. Lehand lived on the third floor of the White House, and Princess Martha on the second, ...
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