Throughout his presidency, John F. Kennedy averaged a 70.1% approval rating, handily the highest of any post-World War II U.S. president. While his alleged mistresses and lovers included movie stars Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Dietrich, White House intern Marion Fay "Mimi" Alford (née Beardsley), Judith Exner (who also claimed to be the paramour of Chicago Outfit boss Sam Giancana and mobster John "Handsome Johnny" Roselli), American painter Mary Pinchot Meyer, Swedish aristocrat Gunilla von Post, and Pamela Turnure (the first first Press Secretary hired to serve a U.S. First Lady), Kennedy only married once.

More than six decades later, the country is led by a man who has been married three times and divorced twice, with the most dismal 100-day job approval rating of any president in the past 80 years.

Robert Indiana was exposing the sanctimony of a system where leaders are held to higher standards than the people they serve, with his cutting critique in A Divorced Man Has Never Been the President (1961-1962). A preeminent figure in American art since that time, Indiana was directly referencing Nelson Rockefeller, who unsuccessfully sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1960, 1964, and 1968, losing the party’s favor after he divorced his first wife Mary Todhunter Clark ​ in 1962 and married ​ Margaretta Large Fitler (A.K.A. Happy) a year later.