If I were writing for National Enquirer or some other sensational tabloid rag, the headline might be: “Now it can be told…100-year-old confirms cousin had affair with President.” Students of history, of course, already know about Franklin Roosevelt’s relationship with his longtime companion Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, who first got to know the Roosevelts in…
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