WASHINGTON, D.C.—Two years ago, AVN Hall of Famer Stormy Daniels became a national, even international celebrity when her story of having sex with Donald Trump led to a highly publicized lawsuit, and even to a series of court cases that appear headed to the Supreme Court.
But Daniels’ story was only the latest in a long line of extramarital sexual episodes involving United States presidents, dating back to the earliest days of the country.
Those tales, including the Daniels-Trump affair, are detailed in a new book, Sex With Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House released this week by Harper Collins publishers. The author, Eleanor Herman, specializes in this sort of thing. Her previous books include Sex With Kings, Sex With the Queen, and Mistress of the Vatican.
Technically, Daniels did not actually have sex with a president, because her encounter with Trump took place in 2006, more than a decade before he assumed the nation’s highest office. But Herman is not hesitant to include other instances of non-presidential sexcapades. Colorado Senator Gary Hart’s sexual adventures get the Herman treatment—as do the affairs of Alexander Hamilton, who served as the country’s first Treasury Secretary, but never as president. (He did, however, get a hit Broadway musical dedicated to his life story.)
But the book sticks primarily to sex with the Commander-in-Chief. Such as:
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In between running for president and winning four times, leading the country out of the Great Depression and through World War II, Roosevelt—who was confined to a wheelchair due to polio—somehow found time for affairs with at least two “summer wives.” That is, mistresses with whom he had relationships when his actual wife, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, would leave the sweltering heat of Washington D.C. for cooler climates in the summer months.
• John F. Kennedy. Still the youngest president ever to take office, at age 43, to say JFK was both sexually restless and reckless would be an understatement. His seemingly countless affairs are detailed in Herman’s book, though his presidency was cut short after less than three years by an assassin’s bullet. Even with his death, the White House remained oversexed, thanks to Kennedy’s successor, who was...
• Lyndon Johnson, who was another president of great achievements, including the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, the creation of Medicare, and numerous “Great Society” programs designed to help pull underprivileged Americans out of poverty—though his legacy was badly damaged by his commitment to the Vietnam War. Obviously a man of considerable energy, Johnson frequently snuck women into the Oval Office, where they had sex. After his wife, Lady Bird, walked in on him in the act with a White House secretary, Johnson—rather than attempt to repair his marriage—had a buzzer system installed to warn him when Lady Bird was on her way.
Herman’s book even answers the question that would likely be on every reader’s mind—which U.S. president possessed the largest penis. Her source material for answering that question may be a bit murky. But her answer: the sexually prolific LBJ.
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