5. Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Nick Longworth
Republican Superfreaks
Alice and Nick had what people used to call an understanding and now just call a reality show. The couple married at the White House and carried on simultaneous affairs, with Nick committing an additional apostasy by supporting William Taft over Alice&amp;#39;s father, Teddy, in 1912. But it&amp;#39;s Alice who deserves special note: She bore a daughter to Senator William Borah even as the senator, also married, simultaneously carried on an affair with publishing heiress Eleanor Medill Patterson. This led to one of D.C.&amp;#39;s sharpest sublimated rivalries: Legend has it that after hosting both Borah and Patterson at a party, Alice returned a set of hairpins to Patterson with the note &amp;quot;I believe they are yours.&amp;quot; Patterson supposedly replied, &amp;quot;And if you look up in the chandelier, you might find my panties.&amp;quot;