A Republican who represented Louisiana in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1999, popular conservative Bob Livingston resigned after marital infidelity revelations surfaced.
Democrats smirked at this news, inasmuch as Livingston not long before had loudly called for Bill Clinton to resign as president following the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Livingston had been remarkable in that he was the first Republican within living memory to have been elected to Congress from his state.
Livingston was replaced by David Vitter, who lasted but a little while until he was brought low by a sex scandal of his own.
A truly odd aspect of Livingston's political demise was that the governor's affair had been brought to light by Larry Flynt, publisher of the girlie magazine Hustler.
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