Historical Fact of the Day

[rsadelle]

From a New Yorker Talk of the Town bit about family members in the White House:

Doug Wead, the author of "All the Presidents' Children," pointed out that the extended families of First Ladies have long had the run of the place - Louisa Catherine Adams, he said, brought in a niece who seduced all three Adams sons, and "some nephews who kept bedding the maids."