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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYour thoughts about the Rock Center show last night on alleged JFK affair with intern?
I have to admit I did watch. I don't think it's really any secret that JFK was a womanizer and to their credit the media, which certainly knew of his activities, didn't report about them because they felt (at that time) that a politicians personal life was not relevant as long as it didn't interfer with how they conducted their job. By most accounts JFK was a president who gave a great deal of thought to problems and measured responses. His 'duty' persona vs his 'off duy' (if a president is ever really off duty?) rather careless (carefree) private affairs.
I thought the woman was credible and she said she wasn't ashamed of what she did--she was actually struggling with maintaining a secret until it was revealed in a book by Robert Dalleck in 2005. She feels keeping it bottled up was more of a problem than the affair itself.
The only thing I was really appalled by is when JFK asked her to give his aide, Dave Powers, a blow job--and she did. She is now ashamed she did so and wishes she had told JFK, No. A year later, he suggested she do the same thing, she claims, to Ted Kennedy, and this time she did tell him no.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)1.) It all sounds quite consistent with attitudes and how things were done back then, as I remember them. Young women were fair game, and not well prepared for it either.
2.) The woman herself seems quite credible.
3.) It was a long time ago, so maybe some details are wrong, but the general idea of how it was, I believe.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Or so I'm told.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)so who cares?
Th guy was a truly loathesome pig. And we have known that for a long time.
So this particular set of allegations is irrelevant.