The book has been published (finally).
It is available on Amazon here:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891234
Sam Sloan
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:55:16 GMT, sloan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Sam Sloan)
wrote:
>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 “Teapot Dome
>Scandal” 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 “no stranger to
>presidential controversy” 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 “The Roaring Twenties”, a period of
>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 give her $25,000
>immediately upon consideration of this marriage.
>
>Finally, Nan Britton confided in him her secret, that she had a
>daughter who was living with her sister in Chicago, and the only
>reason she would marry Captain Neilson was to get her daughter back
>permanently.
>
>Nan Britton feared that upon hearing this news. Captain Nielson would
>dump her. However, this did not happen. Instead, Captain Neilson
>accepted this condition and the marriage ceremony took place.
>
>However, Captain Neilson did not have the money with him at the
>moment. First, he had to return to Norway, to sell the property he
>owned, and then he would return and give her the money he had
>promised.
>
>Captain Neilson left by ****p. When he returned weeks later, he had not
>been successful in selling the property in Norway and he did not have
>any money to give her. Soon, he left on another ****p, and then another
>and then another. Eventually, Nan Britton realized that he was working
>on these ****ps. He was not the owner or even the captain. He had no
>money and, when in New York, she had to sup****t him, not the other way
>around.
>
>After Nan Britton finally realized that Captain Neilson had no money
>at all, she was able to find a lawyer who arranged a divorce or an
>annulment without charging much. However, for some time, she used the
>name “Nan Britton Neilson”.
>
>Now that her plan of having enough money to recover her daughter by
>marrying a rich man had fallen through, Nan Britton decided to contact
>the family of the Late President Harding to ask them for help. It is
>not true that they refused to help. They did offer to help. Daisy, the
>sister of the late President Harding, often sent Nan Britton $40.
>Other family members gave her small amounts of money as well. Tim
>Slade once gave her $100. However, Nan Britton had rent and payments
>to make. These small amounts of money plus her salary at various
>secretarial jobs were not enough to sup****t both her and her bastard
>kid. She needed more.
>
>Nan Britton obviously believed that Warren G. Harding had been a
>wealthy man. She estimated his estate as being between $500,000 to
>$900,000. She only wanted $50,000 in a trust fund, which she felt was
>reasonable. She was interviewed by the late president's brother,
>Doctor Harding. The doctor obviously felt that her demands were
>unreasonable. By then, the widow of the late president, Florence
>Harding, had died too so, if Nan Britton could prove her claim that
>Elizabeth Ann was the daughter of the late president, then she would
>be entitled to the entire estate, as President Harding had left no
>other heirs. His wife, Florence, had been much older and there had
>been no children.
>
>However, the truth was probably that President Harding did not have a
>lot of money. He was deeply in debt and probably insolvent. Thus, the
>small amounts such as the $40 that Daisy Harding often gave Nan
>Britton was not the result of miserliness but rather because Daisy did
>not have a lot of money herself and gave when she could.
>
>Finally, Nan Britton made a decision which should be obvious to every
>modern reader but it took a long time for Nan Britton to think of it
>and was a hard decision for Nan Britton to reach, which was TO SELL
>HER STORY.
>
>The resulting book, The Presidents Daughter, has a story all its own.
>Bills were introduced in the United States Congress to stop the
>publication of this book or to make possession of it illegal. The FBI
>took an interest. The New York City Vice Squad raided the printing
>plant and confiscated all the plates. Nan Britton went to court and
>got the plates back.
>
>It is not clear the legal grounds on which the New York City Vice
>Squad raided. Was it because the book was ****? Mild by modern
>standards, it probably was by the standards of those times.
>
>No major, reputable book publisher would touch this book. All turned
>it down. Finally, a charitable foundation was formed just to help
>protect the rights of illegitimate children and it was this
>foundation, The Elizabeth Ann Guild, that published this book.
>Naturally, as the book featured *** romps in the White House, it
>became a best seller.
>
>It was obviously an expensively produced book, with hard thick covers
>and high quality paper, but without the input of a regular book
>publisher, the print quality was poor, the pages often irregular, hard
>to read and sometimes off center. When I first saw it, I thought that
>this must be a pirate edition. The book is not old, it was published
>in 1927, but I had never seen a book in such bad condition.
>
>I need to thank Pam McCallum of Scituate, Massachusetts for helping me
>restore this book. Without her help, I could never have done it. She
>enhanced the type fonts to make it more readable. Re-centered the
>pages where needed. Due to the irregular placement of the page
>numbers, too close to the edges in the lower corners, they had to be
>cut off, but with 175 chapters, one for every two or three pages, it
>is easy to find things.
>
>One charge often made is that this book is a hatchet job by a
>political opponent of Harding, who was probably a Democrat or a
>Christian Religious Fanatic. There is no doubt some truth to this. It
>would have been virtually impossible or at least unlikely for a simple
>girl with a high school diploma who worked at various secretarial jobs
>to have created this book, which was obviously well written, probably
>by a professional writer. However, there is nothing wrong with that.
>Almost all modern books nowadays have editors, proof readers and so
>on. Also, throughout this book, Nan Britton expresses nothing but
>admiration and respect for Warren G. Harding. She has nothing but good
>things to say about the president. She simply thinks that there is
>nothing wrong with a man sleeping with a woman. Others had done it,
>even before President Harding. She probably never imagined that this
>book would harm his reputation to the extent that it did. She wanted
>only to provide for their daughter.
>
>Nan Britton never remarried. It is said that Nan Britton loved Warren
>G. Harding until the day she died on March 21, 1991 at age 94.
>
>Sam Sloan
>
>This book will soon be reprinted and available at the following
>address:
>http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891234
>
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