Fascinating book "A First Rate Madness" goes into detail on Hitler, JFK and other leaders drug use/abuse and mental illness.
The world was so close to nuclear annihilation, and JFK was on a half dozen drugs, including steroids, antipsychotics, and amphetamines, from the doctor the secret service called "Dr. Feelgood."
It's fascinating what presidents could get away with pre-Lewinsky.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/08/the-medi...
I've seen several documentaries that comment if people thought JFK was bad, LBJ was much, much worse when it came to women. There's a famous rumor about him getting caught in the oval office having sex with his secretary and afterwards, installing a buzzer so the secret service could warn him if he was wife was on her way to his office.
I can only imagine how the tabloid journalists would have a heyday with this nowadays.
At his Senate office, his female workers were fondled, ogled and overworked. Though his own figure was flabby, he was quick to berate any of his "girls" who put on weight. He wanted to make sure the view was good when they walked away from his desk. "I don't want to look at an Aunt Minnie. I want to look at a good, trim back end." He boasted of his sexual prowess and had long affairs with at least two women, as well as casual flings with members of his staff. Robert Caro, who is a dogged researcher, has uncovered the story of LBJ's previously secret relationship with Helen Gahagan Douglas, one of the few congresswomen in Washington during the 1940s. A former actress, she was an attractive blonde whose political career came to an abrupt halt after she failed to join her lover as a member of the Senate. In a dirty campaign for an open seat in California, she was defeated by a Republican newcomer who spread rumours that she was a Communist sympathiser. His name was Richard Nixon.[2]
[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/04/three-ne...
[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4728473/A-lewd-crude-Mast...