The things that stand out are often the oddities.

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.

He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

Whole generations have forgotten history.