When we talk about presidential scandals, Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky comes to mind. When their extra-marital affair came to light, it not only tarnished his credibility and legacy but ...

the narrator of the tale is none other than Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, telling of her long, romantic love affair with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. While the novel is fiction, the affair between ...

“The movie seems to have taken some liberties,” says David Woolner, Hyde Park resident historian at the Roosevelt Institute. “My guess is that there was an affair with Lucy Mercer [see below ...

Lucy Mercer, nine years FDR’s junior, navigated the social scene as deftly and successfully as FDR. She came from an old, aristocratic Catholic Maryland family that had fallen on hard times.

The life of Franklin Roosevelt has been well analyzed through the lens of politics and policy. As the president who lifted the country out of economic despair and stood up to foreign military ...

On Roosevelt's return, his wife, Eleanor, discovered letters between her husband and her social secretary, Lucy Mercer. FDR and Lucy were in love. Facing the defining crisis of his marriage ...

And it was Werner’s wife, Cynthia Koch, former director of the FDR Library in Hyde Park, who suggested he consider publishing it. “Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd: Eleanor’s Rival, FDR’s Other Love ...

When he was stricken, Roosevelt was in the living room with Lucy Mercer, with whom he had resumed an affair, two cousins and his dog , Fala, while the artist Elizabeth Shoumatoff painted his portrait.

On this day in 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage at his Warm Springs, G a . retreat . He was 63. Roosevelt’s death in the final months of World War II was met ...

The 5,000 documents and gifts include a note written by Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd a week before FDR’s death in 1945.

When he was stricken, Roosevelt was in the living room with Lucy Mercer, with whom he had resumed an affair, two cousins and his dog Fala, while the artist Elizabeth Shoumatoff painted his portrait.