"His political rivals at the time claimed that a man who had never started a family or experienced the joy of raising children couldn't truly sympathize with the struggles of the common folk."
"Public opinion held that he was too focused on his career and legal affairs, and they even spun the death of his fiancée in his youth as proof of his cold and heartless nature."
"What was even crazier was that he was suspected of being a secret agent or a foreign operative."
"It sounds absurd, but in those days, single men were sometimes suspected of being more susceptible to temptation or blackmail from foreign powers. Because he had no family to worry about, people thought his loyalty to the country was less steadfast than that of a man with a wife and children."
'But he was still elected President in the end, wasn't he?' Leo replied in his mind. 'That proves being single isn't a death sentence.'
"That was largely due to the exceptionally unique political climate of the time."
