Every president has secrets and that includes Warren G. Harding doesn't rank as one of the most important presidents in American history.

In fact, if you know anything about the 29th president, it's probably as an answer to a trivia

question such as which president died in office at the Palace Hotel in

1923. Harding's secret and it wasn't especially well-kept one, was that he was something of a

philanderer. In 1927, Nan Britain published a tell-all book. It described Harding's extramarital affair with her. and

Britain was 31 years younger than Harding's and Britain was 31 years younger than Harding at the time.

Britain also claimed that Harding was her daughter's father

and DNA tests in 2015 confirmed that she was right.

Nan Britain wasn't alone either. Harding had another long-running extramarital affair with the wife of a friend, Carrie Fulton Phillips.

The affair ended before Harding became president, but when Republicans nominated

Harding to run for the 1920 election,

Phillips threatened to release Harding's love letters he'd written to her.

The Republican Party paid Phillips and her husband $20,000 and sent them on a trip abroad. Harding

apparently enjoyed writing letters to his paramours but the public didn't see

them during his presidency and when a historian tried to publish the

letters Harding had written to Phillips, the Harding family sued. That lawsuit

was settled. And the Harding family agreed to donate the letters to the

Library of Congress on the condition that they would be sealed for 50 years

until 2014. Harding's Lev letters, about 900 pages in all,

turn out to be pretty racy.

Harding wrote in code in cases letters were ever discovered.

He called a certain part of his anatomy,

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