POLS 3440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pillow Talk, Gerda Munsinger, Maxime Bernier
21 Mar 2017
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Sex scandals and political privacy describe conduct that may be stupid, risky or irresponsible. The term (cid:498)scandal(cid:499) is badly over-used, employed almost indiscriminately to: involves private/personal behaviour needs other elements to, sexual misconduct by itself is not a scandal qualify as a scandal. Having an affair does not negatively impact the public like actual scandals do. Former u. s. president bill clinton had sex with a girl at the office. The press of the day didn"t: president franklin roosevelt had an affair with his wife"s secretary, report it. Campbell exner, who was also the mistress of sam giancana, a mafia don. Chappaquiddick, his car went off the edge of a bridge and into the water. A female passenger, mary jo kopechne, was drowned: she was a 29-year-old secretary, blond, beautiful and single, who worked on capitol hill in washington. Kennedy"s wife was home with their children and had not attended the party: the accident was not reported until eight hours later.
