It was great tohear him being honest for a change. Then I woke up. All right, it is too much to expect that any man, let alone this president, will ever be that forthright on the subject of adultery, which, as women's magazines have long been warning us, reflects a dominant characteristic to wander built into the male chromosome.
Some male leaders are honest about the prevalence of the practice.
Francois Mitterrand once observed that if adultery were a disqualification, he would never have been able to form a Cabinet. The French are a civilized people. According to the New Yorker magazine, Clinton had at least one adulterer in his Cabinet, and he, too, in death is revered as having made a considerable contribution in serving his country. The magazine claims that the president's staff knew all about former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's long-running affair and Brown was quizzed about it before his appointment. The White House still parries inquiries about Brown's adultery with an insistence that it was a private matter.