Q: Dear 100 Hour Board,
Will you please sort all the U.S. presidents into two groups--"Presidents Who Probably Had an Affair" and "Presidents Who Probably Didn't Have an Affair"?
-Johnny Adams's Girl
A:
Dear you,
Presidents:
George Washington: Citizen Genet Affair
John Adams: XYZ Affair
Thomas Jefferson: Chesapeake-Leopard Affair
James Madison: Wilkinson Affair
James Monroe: -
John Quincy Adams: None during presidency, but did chair the Committee on Indian Affairs and Committee on Foreign Affairs as a Congressman
Andrew Jackson: Petticoat Affair
Martin Van Buren: Caroline Affair
William Henry Harrison: -
John Tyler: -
James K Polk: -
Zachary Taylor: Thornton Affair and Galphin Affair
Millard Fillmore: -
Franklin Pierce: Sumner-Brooks Affair
James Buchanan: -
Abraham Lincoln: Trent Affair
Andrew Johnson: -
Ulysses S Grant: Virginius Affair
Rutherford B Hayes: -
James A Garfield: -
Chester A Arthur: -
Grover Cleveland: Haymarket Affair
Benjamin Harrison: -
Grover Cleveland: -
William McKinley: -
Theodore Roosevelt: Panama Affair
William Howard Taft: Ballinger Affair
Woodrow Wilson: Has an entire School of Public and International Affairs
Warren G Harding: Teapot Dome Affair
Calvin Coolidge: -
Herbert Hoover: -
Franklin D Roosevelt: -
Harry S Truman: Also has a whole School of Public Affairs
Dwight D Eisenhower: -
John F Kennedy: -
Lyndon B Johnson: Yet another School of Public Affairs
Richard Nixon: Watergate Affair, questionable since it's usually referred to as a "scandal" rather than an "affair." See also Teapot Dome Scandal/Affair
Gerald Ford: -
Jimmy Carter: Lance Affair
Ronald Reagan: Iran-Contra Affair
George H W Bush: -
Bill Clinton: -
George W Bush: Plame Affair
Barack Obama: -
Conclusions:
So, the group with affairs consists of:
Washington, Adams (J), Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, Van Buren, Taylor, Pierce, Lincoln, Grant, Cleveland, Roosevelt (Teddy), Taft, Wilson, Harding, Truman, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, and Bush (W).
The group without affairs consists of:
Everybody else, though it is possible I missed some.
Wow! That's a lot of affairs!
-Miss Interpret
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