On the 50th anniversary of Watergate, it's clear that leaks are the currency of Washington politics from Congress to the White House for better or worse
not bother her if they knew she had them. just as modern day casanovas try in vain to delete e-mails, text messages, the married presidential hopeful pleaded with his lover to dispose the evidence. have a fire. chuck them. you must. having so many letters on hand, all my love making is old to you, a darling old story which isn t to be made new. it became urgent once he started running for president and she asked for money. she blackmailed him. he said, look, i ll pay you $5,000 a year as long as i m in office. you ve got to give me those letters back. she kept the letters. jim robenalt spent five years investigating for his book the harding affair and discovered the lengths to hide their love including code names and hidden code words. if he was writing what he called a public letter to her