The Letters That Warren G. Harding’s Family Didn’t Want You to See from the New York Times
"Perhaps the best that can be said about Harding is that he seems to have been conscious of his defects. “I am not fit for this office and should never have been here,” he once conceded. It is no wonder, then, that in 1964, after the historian Francis Russell gained access to letters from Harding to his longtime mistress, Carrie Fulton Phillips, the Harding family sued to halt their publication. ... The correspondence is intimate and frank — and perhaps the most sexually explicit ever by an American president."
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