Claire Ebel Quotes
No one's going to admit they're in favor of adulterers, although it may not be a group unfamiliar to the Senate. There have been some remarkably lecherous people in the Senate over the years.
When New Hampshire's Senate defeated a bill that would decriminalize adultery:
Claire Ebel, American Civil Liberties Union representative in Concord, New Hampshire, Quoted in The Washington Post, April 30, 1989
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Grover Cleveland had fathered an illegitimate child. This became a campaign issue in the presidential election of 1884:
The King abdicated and became the Duke of Windsor. The surface reason was so he could pursue his love for a divorced woman. However, Edward was very sympathetic to and supportive of English and European Fascists like Hitler and WWII with Germany was imminent and the king’s views and relationships would have been very awkward. His younger brother, who became king, was a democrat.
During the presidential primaries the candidate spent the night with a woman who was not his wife:
