SO why wasn't a big deal made when FDR and JFK were running around with their women outside of their wives? Ok I understand why FDR cheated on his wife I would have to in his shoes to be honest. JFK had a good looking wife though. Why were they questioned under oath? FDR had a better chance of finding himself in the scenario you talked about above with a German operative than Clinton did with a North Korean.
OK … I see what you are saying but here are the facts.
FDR has an affair with Lucy Mercer, which started almost 20 years before he was president. Eleanor knew about it and this gave her the permission to lead a different life and really didn’t fulfill the FDR’s needs according to a lot of biographies. Even FDR’s children knew about the affair and Lucy Mercer was there when he died, arranged a visit with FDR in Georgia by his daughter. Back then it wasn’t talked about, like FDR’s polio and his inability to keep his cabinet running smoothly. Even though he had a lot of enemies, remember he was the product of a time when it was common for men to have wives and mistresses at the same time.
JFK is a different situation altogether. Many knew he chased women, could not keep out of the bedroom but his father was the one who kept him in control until he made it to the WH. They had some special arrangement between the secret service, the AGs office and the FBI where he did what he wanted and they kind of kept a lid on things. Also again like FDR the press looked the other way when it came to the rumors but remember it was some of the secret service who was finding the girls who were supplied by sometimes organized crime. But the real issue was the FBI, Hoover was hated by RFK and he wanted to retire Hoover until one day Hoover appeared in the WH with a package containing a lot of information about JFK and his alter life. It was worked out that Hoover stayed and later on when JFK had an affair with Judith Campbell, Hoover told RFK that it didn’t look good for JFK seeing Campbell was also the girlfriend of Sam Giancana.
Neither FDR or JFK or anyone else for that matter were being put on trial for sexual harassment, only Clinton was and it was a justified move with the courts to allow it to move forward.
What really caused all the problems is Clinton lied when he was being disposed for the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit and asked about Monica. He later settled with Paula Jones, not denying or confirming that he sexually harassed her. BUT the thing is Clinton was no JFK, JFK was a man of his times, what is considered to be something that was ok to do as the norm then is in no way ok to even consider now. Paula Jones was one of seven women who claimed Clinton had done something to them, form sexual harassment to rape in Juanita Broaddrick.
Whether or not he was a target of the GOP is irrelevant here, the movie you mentioned is just another propaganda film as far as I am concern because it takes the position that everyone is wrong but the person the movie is all about.