Bill Clinton vs. David Petraeus vs. JFK

or Monica Lewinsky vs. Paula Broadwell vs. Mimi Alford.

	Clinton	Petraeus	JFK
Age of Paramour	23	39	19
Education of Paramour	College	Graduate, Military	High School
Attractiveness of Paramour	High (on good days)	High, esp. when you include accomplishments	High
Discretion of Paramour	Not much (trusted Linda Tripp)	Not much (but at least she used Internet cafes)	High (almost 50 years)
Sexual Experience of Paramour	Unknown	Unknown	None
Equality of Relationship	Low	Reasonably high	Low
Seriousness of Male Interest	Fleeting	Reasonably high	Obsessive, at least for a year after first seeing her
Mutuality of Emotional Attachment	Weak	Strong	Ambiguous
Paramour Demonstration of Affection	Submission to Cigar	Something under the desk	Sex Act on Aide, but drew the line at Teddy
Illegal Behavior Attributable to Affair	Perjury, subornation of perjury	Compromise of classified information (probably)	Drug use
Immediate Action on being Discovered by Someone Who Might Disclose	Denial	Admission	Unknown/NA
Longer-Term Action on being discovered	Denial	Resignation	Unknown/NA
Action upon being confronted with DNA evidence	Admission	N/A	N/A
Who broke it off?	Man	Not clear, some say woman	Woman, upon getting engaged
Surprise to Country	Not much	Significant	Unknown
Surprise to Spouse	Not much	Unknown	Unknown
Harm to Country	Huge - Got GW Bush Elected	Unknown at this stage	Not much (we survived the Cuban Missile Crisis, even thought they were together)
Harm to Career	Not much, in the long term	Severe and unlikely to regain former stratospheric level	None
Harm to Wife	Not much; she was used to it, and got elected Senator	Unknown, probably considerable	Unknown

Ok, that helped.   I don't know what it proves, but I needed a side-by-side-by-side comparison, and now I've got it, and so do you.  If I've left something out, please let me know.