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Yup he was a total dawgasaurus. Gallis to the MAX!
I am totally confused as I thought he was completely paralysed from the waist down. So, how can this be?
He seemed so wholesome. I am completely shocked and very disappointed.
Here is how I found out. I caught a movie about FDR called "Hyde Park on the Hudson". Turns out he had not only one but MANY mistresses and simultaneously. When his 6th cousin died, they found her diary and letters. Turns out she was one of them and he built a house for her. He also built a house for others. It is the diaries and letters on which the movie is based. She was devastated as she thought she was the only one.
The King and Queen of England new about it as they spent a weekend with him at his mother's place and it was apparent.
FDR's menagerie of alleged mistresses: The American president's long list of rumored love affairs and how he romanced them at his upstate New York cottage
FDR's love nest in the park: How president took FIVE 'mistresses' to country getaway (including his distant COUSIN, publisher and wife's social secretary)
One of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's numerous rumored affairs will be revisited in the coming weeks with the release of 'Hyde Park on Hudson,' a film depicting the American president's quasi-incestual affair with his distant cousin, Margaret 'Daisy' Suckley.
The film, opening December 7, stars Bill Murray as Roosevelt and Laura Linney as Miss Suckley.
It takes place during the June 1939 weekend that the British king and queen visited Roosevelt at his upstate New York cottage in Hyde Park, where FDR was said to take a number of mistresses.
FDR's affinity for the company of women was always well known and some historians dispute stories of his alleged affairs, saying his friendships never grew to become romances.
The least disputed of Roosevelt's supposed affairs, however, was with Lucy Mercer, his wife's social secretary when he was assistant secretary of the Navy in 1916. The affair lasted two years, with one of his friends posing as Mercer's escort.
Eleanor discovered the affair in in 1918 when she found love letters in her husband's suitcase.
'The bottom dropped out of my world,' she later said. 'I face myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time.'
Mercer stayed in FDR's life until his death in 1945, and she was with him when he took his last breaths, even though she eventually married another man.
Also by FDR's side when he died was Daisy Suckley, the president's sixth cousin and close confidant who is depicted in 'Hyde Park on the Hudson'.
The extent of Suckley's close relationship with Roosevelt wasn't known until her death in 1991, when a stash of letters from Roosevelt was found under her bed.
'I have longed to have you with me,' he wrote in one letter from a cruise to Panama.
Soon after his death, Suckley wrote in her diary: 'He told me once that there was no one else with whom he could be so completely honest.'
She spent long periods of time at the White House with him during the war years and they often visited his cottage in Hyde Park. While the letters are suggestive, some historians say argue they do not provide hard evidence of a physical love affair.
Another woman close to FDR was Princess Martha of Sweden, a royal who was forced to flee Scandinavia in 1941 after the Nazi invasion.
Rumors of their affair spread like wildfire, as she always conveniently visited the White House and Hyde Park when Eleanor was out of town.
The princess called Roosevelt by the nickname 'Dear Godfather,' and friends said they were very flirtatious towards one another.
During the same time period, Roosevelt was said to be involved with Dorothy Schiff, a former publisher of the New York Post.
Schiff's biographer, Jeffrey Potter, claimed in his 1976 book, 'Men, Money and Magic: The Story of Dorothy Schiff,' that she admitted to having an affair with FDR between 1936 and 1943.
But when the book was published, she denied the affair, even though Potter claimed she had reviewed the manuscript and never asked to have that information retracted.
Roosevelt's longest supposed affair was with his secretary, Missy LeHand, which some historians believe he became romantically involved with beginning in 1921, when he was serving as governor of New York.
The affair lasted 20 years, according to some, and it was cataloged in a book written by FDR's son Elliott, who said the relationship was common knowledge.
'Everyone in the close-knit inner circle of father's friends accepted it as a matter of course,' he wrote.
'I remember being only mildly stirred to see him with Missy on his lap as he sat in his wicker chair in the main stateroom holding her in his sun-browned arms ... He made no attempt to conceal his feelings about Missy.'
Roosevelt left Missy half of his $3 million estate.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2UJo3Hu8p
I am totally confused as I thought he was completely paralysed from the waist down. So, how can this be?
He seemed so wholesome. I am completely shocked and very disappointed.
Here is how I found out. I caught a movie about FDR called "Hyde Park on the Hudson". Turns out he had not only one but MANY mistresses and simultaneously. When his 6th cousin died, they found her diary and letters. Turns out she was one of them and he built a house for her. He also built a house for others. It is the diaries and letters on which the movie is based. She was devastated as she thought she was the only one.
The King and Queen of England new about it as they spent a weekend with him at his mother's place and it was apparent.
FDR's menagerie of alleged mistresses: The American president's long list of rumored love affairs and how he romanced them at his upstate New York cottage
FDR's love nest in the park: How president took FIVE 'mistresses' to country getaway (including his distant COUSIN, publisher and wife's social secretary)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt allegedly carried on affairs with at least five women
- Lucy Mercer was Eleanor Roosevelt's social secretary
- Margaret 'Daisy' Suckley was Roosevelt's 5th cousin and close confidant
- Princess Martha of Sweden was forced to flee Scandinavia in 1941
- Dorothy Schiff was a former publisher of the New York Post
- Marguerite 'Missy' LaHand was FDR's secretary for more than 20 years
One of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's numerous rumored affairs will be revisited in the coming weeks with the release of 'Hyde Park on Hudson,' a film depicting the American president's quasi-incestual affair with his distant cousin, Margaret 'Daisy' Suckley.
The film, opening December 7, stars Bill Murray as Roosevelt and Laura Linney as Miss Suckley.
It takes place during the June 1939 weekend that the British king and queen visited Roosevelt at his upstate New York cottage in Hyde Park, where FDR was said to take a number of mistresses.
FDR's affinity for the company of women was always well known and some historians dispute stories of his alleged affairs, saying his friendships never grew to become romances.
The least disputed of Roosevelt's supposed affairs, however, was with Lucy Mercer, his wife's social secretary when he was assistant secretary of the Navy in 1916. The affair lasted two years, with one of his friends posing as Mercer's escort.
Eleanor discovered the affair in in 1918 when she found love letters in her husband's suitcase.
'The bottom dropped out of my world,' she later said. 'I face myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time.'
Mercer stayed in FDR's life until his death in 1945, and she was with him when he took his last breaths, even though she eventually married another man.
Also by FDR's side when he died was Daisy Suckley, the president's sixth cousin and close confidant who is depicted in 'Hyde Park on the Hudson'.
The extent of Suckley's close relationship with Roosevelt wasn't known until her death in 1991, when a stash of letters from Roosevelt was found under her bed.
'I have longed to have you with me,' he wrote in one letter from a cruise to Panama.
Soon after his death, Suckley wrote in her diary: 'He told me once that there was no one else with whom he could be so completely honest.'
She spent long periods of time at the White House with him during the war years and they often visited his cottage in Hyde Park. While the letters are suggestive, some historians say argue they do not provide hard evidence of a physical love affair.
Another woman close to FDR was Princess Martha of Sweden, a royal who was forced to flee Scandinavia in 1941 after the Nazi invasion.
Rumors of their affair spread like wildfire, as she always conveniently visited the White House and Hyde Park when Eleanor was out of town.
The princess called Roosevelt by the nickname 'Dear Godfather,' and friends said they were very flirtatious towards one another.
During the same time period, Roosevelt was said to be involved with Dorothy Schiff, a former publisher of the New York Post.
Schiff's biographer, Jeffrey Potter, claimed in his 1976 book, 'Men, Money and Magic: The Story of Dorothy Schiff,' that she admitted to having an affair with FDR between 1936 and 1943.
But when the book was published, she denied the affair, even though Potter claimed she had reviewed the manuscript and never asked to have that information retracted.
Roosevelt's longest supposed affair was with his secretary, Missy LeHand, which some historians believe he became romantically involved with beginning in 1921, when he was serving as governor of New York.
The affair lasted 20 years, according to some, and it was cataloged in a book written by FDR's son Elliott, who said the relationship was common knowledge.
'Everyone in the close-knit inner circle of father's friends accepted it as a matter of course,' he wrote.
'I remember being only mildly stirred to see him with Missy on his lap as he sat in his wicker chair in the main stateroom holding her in his sun-browned arms ... He made no attempt to conceal his feelings about Missy.'
Roosevelt left Missy half of his $3 million estate.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz2UJo3Hu8p
Well I was shocked so which am I? 
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