The former President of the United States (U.S.) Warren G. Harding carried on a sensational correspondence with his mistress in a selection of love letters, it has been revealed.
The spicy love letters, that have been released by the New York Times, detail Harding's year-long affair with his one time neighbor Carrie Fulton Phillips, People Magazine reported.
Historian Francis Russell had discovered the letters during the 1960s, but Harding's descendants were able to delay the president's posthumous embarrassment by donating the letters to the Library of Congress, which promised to keep them sealed for 50 years.
Harding and Phillips began their affair in 1905, when the future U.S. president was editing a newspaper in Ohio, and she was the wife of his good friend.
Harding's letters reportedly reveal a man driven to lustful poetry as he wrote in a 1912 letter: "I love your poise / Of perfect thighs / When they hold me / In Paradise / I love the rose / Your garden grows / Love seashell pink / That over it grows."
Their affair continued after Harding was elected to the Senate in 1914, months before the outbreak of World War I, with the event tending creating a rift between the two, as Phillips became a vocal supporter of Germany.
Phillips often attempted to convince Harding of the rightness of the German cause and reportedly the 29 th President of the U.S. named his penis 'Jerry', which was a nickname shared with an anti-German slur that originated during the war.
In another letter in 1918 Harding wrote that he wished to take Phillips to 'Mount Jerry', adding that it was a wonderful spot, "not in the geographies but a heavenly space."
Harding reportedly broke off the affair before being elected as the U.S. President in 1920, but Phillips blackmailed him and threatened to release the letters unless he paid 25,000 dollars as well as a small stipend.
However, Harding bought Phillips' silence with the help of the Republican National Committee, the report added.
