This is from Conrad Black in the National Post:
"The Billy Bush clip released Friday was extremely crude and boastful, almost disgusting for the seeker of the presidency of the U.S ., even though it was 11 years old. It was not as distasteful as the antics of a number of presidents, including JFK telling an intern to fellate his chief of staff and watching it in the White House swimming pool, and asking her to lie down in his official car so she would be invisible to the British prime minister (Harold Macmillan); Bill Clinton receiving oral sex in the Oval Office while ostensibly conducting government business on the telephone, or much of the routine conversation of Lyndon Johnson. Thomas Jefferson, who famously held the equality of all men to be “self-evident” was so pleasured by his slave, Sally Hemings, that she bore him seven children. Van Buren’s vice- president, Col. Richard Mentor Johnson, lived with an octoroon slave woman as congressman and senator a five- minute walk from the slave market in Washington for 25 years. Presidents Grover Cleveland and Warren Harding sired children out of wedlock; the extra- marital, pre- presidential affairs of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower almost broke up their marriages, which would have disqualified them for the presidency (and FDR revived the relationship in his third term). Teddy Kennedy was considered a serious candidate for president even after he drunkenly drove his car into a pond, drowning a female assistant, and left the scene of the accident. The Trump video from 11 years ago was tawdry and contemptible, as he has acknowledged, but has nothing to do with being president."But that's a lot of of disgusting behaviour from presidents in the past.
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