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US presidents and their wives have been an amorous lot.
WASHINGTON: US presidents and their wives have been an amorous lot, their White House years coming at the pinnacle of lives entwined. The men pursued and loved these women as intensely as they clawed to power and unleashed armies.
"Touch you I must or I���ll burst,"Ronald Reagan wrote to Nancy three years before he became California governor. Lyndon Johnson, then a young congressman from Texas, declared to his valentine, Lady Bird, mere weeks after they had met: "This morning I���m ambitious, proud, energetic and very madly in love with you."
College graduate Teddy Roosevelt put Alice Lee on a pedestal, telling her five days before they wed: "I worship you so that it seems almost desecration to touch you."
The correspondence in My Dear President: Letters Between Presidents and Their Wives, by Library of Congress historian Gerard W Gawalt, captures some of the couples in the first blush of their romance and follows them into the White House.
The letters between presidents and their wives fleshes out momentous periods of history with the full range of human emotion ��� love, longing, snippiness, betrayal, loss, lust.
Presidents who were wild about their wives were not necessarily faithful to them ��� not even close. Some wives knew it. Lucretia Rudolph was not so accommodating when she learned her fiance, James Garfield, had been stepping out.
"James, to be an unloved wife, O Heavens,"she wrote in 1857. They wed anyway; he was assassinated in 1881 just months after taking office.
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