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President James Buchanan (Democrat) and William Rufus King (Democrat), who served as vice-president under Franklin Pierce, were the subject of gossip alleging their having a years-long homosexual affair in Washington, D.C.. Andrew Jackson referred to King as “Miss Nancy.”.
He was sentenced to three years in prison and was expelled from the House. [240] Frank Thompson (D-NJ) was sentenced to three years in prison. [240] John M. Murphy (D-NY) served 20 months of a three-year sentence. [363] Also arrested were NJ State Senator Angelo Errichetti (D) [364] and members of the Philadelphia City Council.
In February 2018, The New Yorker 's Ronan Farrow wrote about an alleged affair between Trump and Playboy model Karen McDougal, as well as the "catch and kill" procedure of the purchase and withholding of the story by American Media, Inc. (AMI), largely corroborating a 2016 report in The Wall Street Journal, except that the affair had gone on for nine months.
The FBI also spied upon and collected information on Puerto Rican independence leader Pedro Albizu Campos and his Nationalist political party in the 1930s. Albizu Campos was convicted three times in connection with deadly attacks on US government officials: in 1937 (Conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States), in 1950 (attempted murder), and in 1954 (after an armed assault on ...
The embattled congressman and serial liar took to X late on Thursday night to paint himself as a victim of ‘dirty’ politics and ‘poison’ from the House Ethics Committee
Davis Inlet, 1992/1993 — In 1992, 6 unattended children, aged between 6 months and 9 years, died in a house fire while their parents were drinking at a Valentine's Day dance. In 1993, a video was released to the media of six children in Davis Inlet between the ages of 11 and 14 huffing gasoline in an unheated shack in winter and shouting that ...
Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Carow Roosevelt with their children. Children from left to right: Quentin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Archibald Roosevelt, Alice Longworth, Kermit Roosevelt, and Ethel Roosevelt Derby. The following people are children of U.S. presidents, including stepchildren and alleged illegitimate children. All full ...
Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 46 presidencies. The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [ 4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the ...