‘You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.’ Liz Taylor
The Profumo Affair
MP John Profumo’s political career was ruined when news broke in 1963 that he had shared a mistress (albeit unknowingly) with an attache at the Soviet embassy. The woman in the middle was topless showgirl Christine Keeler who was immortalized in Lewis Morley’s photograph of her posing nude astride a chair, one of the iconic images of the 1960s.
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GETTING AWAY WITH IT
‘Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.’ Barbara Bush
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‘I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of
oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed
interstate commerceJ Edgar Hoover