You talkin' about JFK?  (C'mon say it.  It's OK...)  But he didn't become widely known "worldwide for that" until AFTER his death.  Only a close circle knew about the series of women in and out of the White House.

It was a different era.  Was the media complicit in the "cover up" back then?  In Washington (Post) and possibly New York (Times)? Sure.  Gentlemen's Agreement.  He was, after all, the President.  Elsewhere...most other papers never heard about it at all until post-Camelot.

We've come a long way since the early 1960s.  Now the media reports everything...and the foul-mouthed candidate faces no investigation at all.  Instead, investigators later go after someone who points a satirical finger at the guy.  Who STILL got to be President. Yup.  Progress.