{"id":42232,"date":"2015-08-13T15:32:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T15:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42232"},"modified":"2015-08-13T18:47:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T18:47:39","slug":"dna-is-said-to-solve-a-mystery-of-warren-hardings-love-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42232","title":{"rendered":"DNA Is Said to Solve a Mystery of Warren Harding\u2019s Love Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

DNA Is Said to Solve a Mystery of Warren Harding\u2019s Love Life<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2015-08-12<\/p>\n

Peter Baker<\/a><\/strong>, Chief White House Correspondent<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 She was denounced as a \u201cdegenerate\u201d and a \u201cpervert,\u201d accused of lying for money and shamed for waging a \u201cdiabolical\u201d campaign of falsehoods against the president\u2019s family that tore away at his legacy.<\/p>\n

Long before Lucy Mercer<\/a>, Kay Summersby<\/a> or Monica Lewinsky<\/a>, there was Nan Britton<\/a>, who scandalized a nation with stories of carnal adventures in a White House<\/a> coat closet and endured a ferocious backlash for publicly claiming that she bore the love child of President Warren G. Harding<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now nearly a century later, according to genealogists, new genetic tests confirm for the first time that Ms. Britton\u2019s daughter, Elizabeth Ann Blaesing<\/a>, was indeed Harding\u2019s biological child. The tests have solved one of the enduring mysteries of presidential history and offer new insights into the secret life of America\u2019s 29th president. At the least, they demonstrate how the march of technology is increasingly rewriting the nation\u2019s history books.<\/p>\n

The revelation has also roiled two families that have circled each other warily for 90 years, struggling with issues of rumor, truth and fidelity. Even now, members of the president\u2019s family remain divided over the matter, with some still skeptical after a lifetime of denial and unhappy about cousins who chose to pursue the question. Some descendants of Ms. Britton remain resentful that it has taken this long for evidence to come out and for her credibility to be validated…<\/p>\n

…The testing also found that President Harding had no ancestors from sub-Saharan Africa, answering another question that has intrigued historians. When Harding ran for president in 1920, segregationist opponents claimed he had \u201cblack blood.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DNA Is Said to Solve a Mystery of Warren Harding\u2019s Love Life The New York Times 2015-08-12 Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent WASHINGTON \u2014 She was denounced as a \u201cdegenerate\u201d and a \u201cpervert,\u201d accused of lying for money and shamed for waging a \u201cdiabolical\u201d campaign of falsehoods against the president\u2019s family that tore away […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,459,8,26,20],"tags":[20687,20686,2640,2703,2327,20685,20688],"class_list":["post-42232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-elizabeth-ann-blaesing","tag-nan-britton","tag-new-york-times","tag-peter-baker","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-warren-g-harding","tag-warren-harding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42235,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42232\/revisions\/42235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}