Book Dishes Nasty White House Dirt

[kskiska]

Was James Buchanan the first gay Prez?

'I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business," Chester Arthur once thundered.

Well, Mr. 21st President, that wasn't true in 1881, and it sure isn't true today. Just in time for our annual celebration of America's Oval Officers comes "Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents," in which Cormac O'Brien collects all the delicious White House gossip "your teachers never told you."

Among the aromatic items:

# George Washington spent an estimated 7% of his salary on booze.

# Lifelong bachelor James Buchanan (pictured at left) weathered rumors about his close friendship with William Rufus King, who was Franklin Pierce's vice president. Washington wags referred to them as "Miss Nancy and Aunt Fancy" and "Mr. Buchanan and his wife."

# POTUS with the mostest John Quincy Adams was fond of skinny-dipping in the Potomac.

# Zachary Taylor died from an overdose of bad cherries.

# John Tyler, the 10th prez, married the woman his son, John Jr., was courting.

# Poker-loving President Warren G. Harding played fast and loose with White House property. "During one heated game, bet an entire box of priceless White House china and lost it," O'Brien writes.

# Gerald Ford allegedly had a flatulence problem, "often blaming the Secret Service men surrounding him."

In other presidential news, "Queer Eye" fashionista Carson Kressley has something to tell the current occupant of the White House: "I wouldn't kick President Bush out of my bed," Kressley said during a recent taping of CNBC's "The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch," but added: "Although I do think he needs some sassy highlights."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/161901p-141933c.html

[lancdem]

1. Poor Gerald Ford

Maybe he should've taken Beano. :evilgrin:

[BuelahWitch]

2. ICK! Bush attractive???

I wouldn't do him if he was the last man on earth and all batteries had been confiscated by the state! :puke:

[thebigidea]

3. agh! now I hafta change my nickname. Its TAINTED! TAINTED!