Eleanor Herman
speaker
363 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 3 Jul
Eleanor Herman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'll tell you why.
It's a very fascinating story.
Ever since
The advent of newspapers, pamphlets, broadsheets in the 1500s, the press had been very salacious, always seeking scandal because it sold them, right?
Printers and publishers made a lot of money from these stories, whether it's witches in New England in the 1600s or the sex lives of
kings throughout all of those centuries.
And then about 1900, journalists decided that they were going to be more respectable.
The National Press Club was founded about that time.
And
They came to a kind of agreement that they would not report on these scandalous stories, that gentlemen reporters did not report on gentlemen politicians' love affairs.
And so they just clammed up.
They didn't report on Woodrow Wilson's mistress around the time of the First World War.
They didn't report on Warren Harding in the early 1920s.
He was right there behind Kennedy, I would have to say.
All of his women.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt had several mistresses.
Everyone knew.
And then, of course, the worst was JFK.
And reporters would come into a hotel suite, see some naked actress running around or lying on the bed, and they were not allowed to report it.
Now, what changed this was a few events.
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