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发帖数: 6361 | 1 据英国广播公司报道，在20世纪20年代，美国第29任总统沃伦·哈定曾与南·布里顿发
生婚外情，并且布里顿为哈定产下一女——伊拉莎白·安·布里顿。由于受当时技术限
制，此事无法证实，而哈定的家人也一口否认，称布里顿为骗子。但近日，哈定的后人
终于通过DNA技术确认，布里顿当年没有说谎。
【DNA的力量】
彼得·哈定是沃伦·哈定的侄孙，也是第一个提出做DNA鉴定的人。
他说：“从我记事起，这就是我们家庭的一个秘密。不过当时也没有办法破解谜团。在
二十年代那会儿，只能通过长得像不像来判断。”
彼得·哈定、他的堂兄阿比盖尔·哈定与布里顿的孙子詹姆斯·布莱辛通过美国家谱网
做了DNA鉴定。鉴定结果确认双方有血缘关系。
“多么神奇啊！DNA能够追溯一个人的家族故事，甚至改写这个家族的历史，”家谱网
的一名经理斯蒂芬·巴尔奥卢说道。
【一个女人的斗争史】
《纽约时报》称，尽管哈定不是第一个被曝出有婚外情的总统，但是布里顿是第一个敢
公开承认自己情妇身份并著书讲述这一切的女人。布里顿甚至在全美引起一股热潮，上
至法庭，下至寻常人家，到处都充斥着她的故事。
南·布里顿出生在俄亥俄州马里恩县，她的父亲与哈定是好友。布里顿在哈定任总统前
已与其相爱，并在1919年为哈定生下一个女儿。
（布里顿与伊丽莎白）
1928年，布里顿出版了《总统之女》一书，希望争取自己女儿的权益及呼吁维护非婚生
子女的权益。
（哈定与原配夫人弗洛朗丝）
书中称：哈定在任总统期间与布里顿始终保持着婚外情关系，并且哈定表示会帮助抚养
女儿。但是1923年，57岁的哈定因心脏病逝世，没有为布里顿母女留下任何遗产。几乎
没有人相信布里顿所言。
1991年，94岁高龄的布里顿逝世，临终前，她仍坚称她的女儿伊丽莎白的父亲就是哈定
总统。
“她出版这本书的时候女性刚获得选举权。人们更相信有权势的男人，而不是女人。她
该是怎样熬过去的呢？”彼得·哈定说道，“这是一个不可思议的女性故事。一个女人
始终握着自己的武器，终于在88年后获得了胜利。”
【两个家族的碰撞】
在过去的几十年中，布莱顿家始终不同意进行DNA鉴定，认为这是对他们已逝长辈的不
尊重。
但彼得希望见到布莱顿家族更多的成员，期待与其他哈定后人的重聚。
“还有许多哈定总统的后辈我们都没有见到。在这个家族秘密中，我们做错了一些事情
——它让我们其他的家人受到了不公正的待遇。我无法忍受这样的事情，我想要弥补，
”彼得说道。 | t***h
发帖数: 5601 | 2 Associated Press, By BRETT ZONGKER August 13, 2015 7:43 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Since the days when George Washington was enamored with
Sally Fairfax, presidents have contended with rumors of extramarital affairs
, but without proof, the shadow of a doubt has worked in their favor.
Then along came DNA testing. DNA testing all but confirmed Thomas Jefferson
slept with his slave Sally Hemings. Now genetic analysis has proved that
President Warren G. Harding fathered a child with long-rumored mistress Nan
Britton, according to AncestryDNA, a DNA-testing division of Ancestry.com.
Britton set off a Jazz Age sex scandal when she went public with her tale of
forbidden love in the White House, boldly publishing her story in a 1927
best-selling memoir, "The President's Daughter." But historians long
questioned her claims, and Harding defenders vilified her as a liar for
nearly 90 years.
Based on DNA from Britton's grandson and descendants of Harding, the results
are 99.9 percent certain, Ancestry.com said. The findings were first
reported Thursday by The New York Times.
The child born of their union, Elizabeth Ann Blaesing, was the only known
offspring of the 29th president. She died in 2005. Britton died in 1991.
James Blaesing, 65, who grew up hearing the story of his grandfather, the
president, from Britton, his grandmother, told The Associated Press he long
wanted to prove she was telling the truth. He was delighted by the DNA
results.
Harding was a heartthrob U.S. senator from Ohio when the affair began. Women
found him handsome and charming with great magnetism. Britton was younger
by 30 years and first developed a crush on Harding as a teenage girl in his
hometown. The relationship continued when Harding was president, with
Britton later writing of how they made love in a White House coat closet.
The secret romance ended with Harding's sudden death during his presidency
in 1923.
Harding's family long maintained Britton's book was a lie or a childhood
fantasy or was perhaps dreamed up by Democratic opponents of the Republican
president. Some maintained that Harding was sterile because he had mumps as
a child.
The Library of Congress recently published love letters from an earlier
affair between Harding and another woman, Carrie F. Phillips, opening
further doubts about the family's denials.
Peter Harding of Big Sur, California, a grandnephew of the former president,
wanted to know the truth, along with his cousin, Abigail Harding of
Worthington, Ohio, who had already begun studying her family history on
Ancestry.com.
But other parts of the family didn't want anyone digging into the
potentially salacious details of the past.
"People have a right to know who their parents and grandparents are," said
Peter Harding, a retired psychiatrist. "I think that's just a human right.
There was a whole family that didn't know for sure who their father and
grandfather was. They deserved to know."
Peter Harding and James Blaesing connected and agreed to do a DNA test. When
the results came back, Blaesing called Abigail Harding and greeted her by
saying, "Hi, cousin." The families plan to hold a reunion and get better
acquainted.
Historians rank Harding low among the presidents, and he is known mostly for
the Teapot Dome scandal that took place during his administration. Family
members who researched Harding's history said he was in a sexless marriage
and had several mistresses.
Questions over Harding's affairs and out-of-wedlock daughter have circulated
for years. Visitors to the Harding home in Marion, Ohio, often ask whether
he had a secret daughter. Tour guides have answered with a shrug and said
there's evidence it's true.
Blaesing said that if his mother and grandmother were alive today, they
would be pleased by the DNA findings.
AncestryDNA spokesman Stephen Baloglu said the Harding story shows the power
of DNA in rewriting history.
"The family connection is definitive," he said. "We were happy to help the
Harding family members solve this longstanding family mystery."
In the Jefferson case, a DNA analysis published in 1998 found evidence that
a member of the Jefferson family fathered at least one of Hemings' six
children.
On the basis of that and documentary evidence - namely, the whereabouts of
Jefferson's male relatives at the time - historians have generally agreed
that Jefferson and Hemings had a sexual relationship, as had long been
rumored.
http://news.yahoo.com/dna-proves-president-harding-fathered-chi | t***h
发帖数: 5601 | 3 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Since the days when George Washington was enamored with
Sally Fairfax, presidents have contended with rumors of extramarital affairs
, but without proof, the shadow of a doubt has worked in their favor.
Then along came DNA testing. DNA testing all but confirmed Thomas Jefferson
slept with his slave Sally Hemings. Now genetic analysis has proved that
President Warren G. Harding fathered a child with long-rumored mistress Nan
Britton, according to AncestryDNA, a DNA-testing division of Ancestry.com. |
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