On Apr 19, 7:37=A0pm, "jeremy.p.spin...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<jeremy.p.spin...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Although this post is completely off-topic, I have to admit that I
> found it interesting.
>
> Jerry Spinrad
>
> On Apr 19, 9:55=A0am, sl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Sam Sloan) wrote:
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> > The President's Daughter by Nan Britton
>
> > The President's Daughter is the heart warming story of an innocent
> > young girl who became pregnant and gave birth to a child whose father
> > happened to be the President of the United States.
>
> > No. This is not a tawdry fable. This is fact. The President was Warren
> > G. Harding who then died suddenly. Some say he was murdered.
>
> > Largely on the strength of this and on the so-called =93Teapot Dome
> > Scandal=94 Harding became known as the worst president the United
States=
> > ever had.
>
> > Of late, there has been a re-examination of President Harding, who was
> > president from 1921 to 1923. A recent book by John W Dean , who, as
> > the cover blurb notes in a massive understatement, is =93no stranger
to
> > presidential controversy=94 makes a strong case that not only was
> > President Harding not the worst, but he was perhaps the best president
> > the US ever had.
>
> > The Fall Guy in the Teapot Dome Scandal had been Albert Fall. However,
> > Fall had served as Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court and had
> > been for many years a United States Senator before joining the Harding
> > Administration, so it seems difficult to understand why Harding had to
> > take the fall for Fall.
>
> > Harding had many accomplishments as president, far more than most
> > presidents. For example, President Harding was the first to require
> > all departments of the government to have a budget. Harding cut
> > government expenditures by one billion dollars. Harding brought about
> > the economic reforms that started =93The Roaring Twenties=94, a period
o=
f
> > unequaled economic prosperity in America.
>
> > And, with Nan Britton as our witness, Harding was also the best lay.
>
> > Her book is great. In Chapter 18 she describes how on July 30, 1917
> > she finally lost her virginity to the future president after a long
> > court****p, in a New York City hotel on 30th Street overlooking
> > Broadway. Only moments after intercourse had been completed, the New
> > York City Vice Squad broke down the door. Harding was forced to
> > identify himself. When the police realized that their target, Warren
> > G. Harding, was a United States Senator (he was not yet president),
> > the Vice Squad apologized and beat a hasty retreat, after Harding gave
> > them a tip of $20. Harding told Britton that he was surprised that he
> > got away for less than $100.
>
> > Harding then explained that under the Constitution of the United
> > States, a Congressman or Senator is immune from arrest while going to
> > or from his place of office. Thus, since his stop-over in New York
> > City to see Nan Britton had been part of his journey from Ohio from
> > which he was a Senator to Wa****ngton DC, he could not be arrested.
>
> > Suddenly, this explains a curious recent incident in which Senator
> > Larry Graig of Idaho was arrested for tapping his toe in a public
> > restroom in an air****t in Minnesota. Toe-tapping is, of course, a
> > vile, heinous, criminal offense, and when the toe-police arrested the
> > senator for tapping his toe, he immediately pulled out his
> > identification card showing that he was a United States Senator going
> > to or from his place of office and thus was immune from arrest.
>
> > Apparently, the police and the press must have thought that Senator
> > Larry Craig was trying to intimidate them by immediately identifying
> > himself as a United States Senator, whereas in reality he was merely
> > asserting his constitutional right to tap his toe as long as he was
> > traveling to or from his place of office in the United States Senate.
>
> > Similarly, in 1917, United States Senator Warren G. Harding knew his
> > rights and knew that he had every legal right to pop the cherry of Nan
> > Britton and could not be arrested for this.
>
> > This, however, raises another interesting legal question. Nan Britton
> > claims that she was born in 1896 and thus was 20 years old when the
> > cherry popping incident took place. However, one wonders, was it ever
> > illegal for a man to have *** with a 20-year-old woman in New York or
> > in any other state. Under current law, it is perfectly legal for man
> > to have *** with a woman in New York as long as she is at least 17
> > years old. In New Jersey, the legal age is 16. Thus, since time
> > immemorial, New York men have taken their 16-year-old girlfriends
> > across the river to New Jersey.
>
> > This makes one suspect that Nan Britton was in fact considerably
> > younger than the 20 years she claimed to have been when the New York
> > City Vice Squad raided the hotel room just after she had lost her
> > virginity to the future President Warren G. Harding.
>
> > Nan Britton explains that she really did not know how babies were
> > made. Her mother had never explained this to her. Senator Harding came
> > to the rescue and told her that he would explain to her how it was
> > done, and then he proceeded to do so.
>
> > It was not before long that Nan Britton discovered that she was
> > pregnant. Senator Harding set her up in a house in Asbury Park, New
> > Jersey and sent her money through messengers. Nan Britton created a
> > fake personality named E. N. Christian, whom, she claimed, was her
> > husband who had gone off to fight in World War I and had not yet
> > returned from Europe. This story was used to explain to her landlady
> > why she was pregnant but living alone in a rooming house. Similarly,
> > she wrote to her mother and her sister that E. N. Christian was her
> > employer and that all letters should be written to her c/o E. N.
> > Christian. Thus, she was able to keep her pregnancy and the subsequent
> > birth to her of an illegitimate child a secret from everybody, except
> > for her actual lover who was US Senator and Future President Warren G.
> > Harding.
>
> > Many biographers have mistakenly concluded that E. N. Christian was
> > her husband, a man whom she had married to legitimize the birth of her
> > child. However, in her autobiography, Nan Britton makes it clear that
> > E. N. Christian was entirely a fake personality. No such person ever
> > existed.
>
> > What is more remarkable is that she had only one baby by the future
> > President Harding. After giving birth, she could hardly wait to get
> > back into bed with him. Her book recounts the anxious time she spent
> > waiting to recover from childbirth so she could resume their ***ual
> > activities.
>
> > In order to cover up that she had given birth to a child, she claimed
> > that an unknown friend had abandoned the child to her. She then
> > arranged for her sister and her sister's husband to adopt the
> > supposedly abandoned child. Her sister really did not know that the
> > child, Elizabeth Ann, was actually the child of Nan Britton and of
> > course the sister had no idea that Warren G. Harding was in any way
> > involved in this.
>
> > An interesting incident occurred when by chance Nan Britton met
> > Governor James Cox of Ohio while on a train to New York. Governor Cox
> > then made great efforts to seduce Nan Britton, inviting her to dinner,
> > riding with her in a taxi and so on. Governor Cox knew that she had
> > some connection with Senator Harding, although he almost certainly did
> > not know that she was actually Harding's mistress.
>
> > Later, this same James Cox, the man who had tried hard to seduce Nan
> > Britton, became the opposing candidate for President of the United
> > States. Warren G. Harding was the Republican Party Candidate. James
> > Cox was the Democratic Party Candidate. Harding won the election
> > easily. Nan Britton, who knew little about politics, wondered why they
> > even bothered to hold an election. It was just obvious to her that
> > Harding should be president.
>
> > Thus, everything was hunky dory. Elizabeth Ann had been legally
> > adopted by her sister and her brother-in-law, and meanwhile Nan
> > Britton was living in New York City and was free to visit Wa****ngton
> > DC and to have *** romps in the White House as much as cir***stances
> > would allow.
>
> > There came a time when President Harding, at the height of his
> > popularity, decided to take a trip with his legal wife to Alaska,
> > which was the first trip ever by a president to the far western part
> > of the United States. Since the President was going to be away anyway,
> > Nan Britton took this op****tunity to take a trip to France, which was
> > her first trip abroad.
>
> > While in France, the shocking news arrived that President Harding had
> > died. Nan Britton borrowed money from one Captain Neilson and was able
> > to board a quick boat back to the United States, hoping to arrive in
> > time for the funeral.
>
> > After her return, Nan Brtton soon discovered that her economic
> > cir***stances worsened considerably. Up until that time, President
> > Warren G. Harding had been sending her cash money regularly, allowing
> > her to enjoy a fairly lavish life style. One of the messengers who
> > often brought her money from Harding was Tim Slade, who later on
> > became a close friend of Nan Britton. Tim Slade later confided that he
> > had long suspected that Nan Britton was actually the daughter of
> > President Harding, from some prior relation****p. He had not originally
> > suspected that she was actually the mistress.
>
> > Nan Britton was now working at various secretarial jobs in New York
> > City. She was having trouble paying rent and making ends meet.
> > Meanwhile, her sister had adopted her daughter Elizabeth Ann. Soon,
> > her sister must have realized than Nan was actually the mother of
> > Elizabeth Ann. Nan Britton visited her daughter as often that she
> > could. She wanted her daughter to come back permanently to live with
> > her, but her cir***stances would not allow it.
>
> > By now, Nan Britton was regularly approaching friends to borrow money.
> > One person who always seemed willing to loan her money was Captain
> > Nielson. Finally, Captain Neilson proposed marriage. He told her that
> > he had a lot of property in Norway and offered to
>
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