Former intern to tell of affair with John F. Kennedy

[keep_it_real]

That book revealed that he began an affair in June 1962 with Mimi Beardsley. The 19-year-old student working in the White House press office was described as a "tall, slender, beautiful" by Kennedy's biographer, Robert Dallek.

"She's just not that type of person, where she's going to spill her guts about intimate stuff for the whole country to see," Mr Reiter told the New York Times. "The story has three acts to it: before the White House, during the White House, and then the really powerful part is what happens afterwards. What's the impact on your family life, your marriage, knowing that this happened to you in your early life and you have chosen to keep it a secret."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5374413/Former-intern-to-tell-of-affair-with-John-F.-Kennedy.html

[Captain Hilts]

1. A 19 year old intern. I wonder how JFK lovers and Clinton haters like Chris Matthews

will deal with this.

[47of74]

3. It'll probably be on "What The FOX???" for the next several days straight.

[elizfeelinggreat]

7. on FOX everyone knows that when a Democrat has an affair

everything they've ever done or stood for is wrong ;) So, FOX news is sure to highlight this one.

I wonder, though, if their viewers will all want to see a beloved president viewed in this manner.

[devilgrrl]

2. .....

:boring::eyes::popcorn:

[rcrush]

4. gasp JFK fucked around.

no wai!

[mitchum]

5. Wow! Who knew that JFK was a philanderer who couldn't keep his cock in his pants?

Earthshaking news

[Wapsie B]

6. You want some earth-shaking news, gimme a book about George H.W. Bush

and his affair with Jennifer Fitzgerald.

[bertman]

8. Nobody will touch that one with a ten-foot pole. They might get "disappeared" by one

of Poppy's old CIA buddies.

Didn't Donna Brazille get slapped down for trying to bring that up when King George I was running against Wild Bill?

[Wapsie B]

21. I know someone did. The Jennifer story was quickly hushed.

George I needed the fundie vote bad and that story would've seriously damaged that voting block.
You're right. No one will touch that. I'd lay odds that anyone who does won't be around 6 months after publication.

[Captain Hilts]

38. GHWB had 'Jennifer F' paid off with a 6 figure job at the State Dept. nt

[shadowknows69]

18. Or why Jeff Gannon was an honored guest at the WH?

[Captain Hilts]

22. Under a false name. Repeatedly. I really want to know who was getting it up the butt,

or elsewhere?

Scott McClellan? He was in charge of vetting the press practices?

Laura?

Condi?

Ari?

Karl?

Who?

[Wapsie B]

23. I'd bet it was *.

W, the first gay prez.

[shadowknows69]

26. Sorry but he does kind of fit the "self-loathing, overcompensating with machoism" mold

And his obsession with patting men on their bald heads is a pretty big red flag. No offense meant to any of our GLBT community, except of course if George W Bush is indeed among your numbers, which would be an offense in itself. I'm offended he was born at all.

[Wapsie B]

28. I agree. Just Google Victor Ashe.

Rumors between Ashe and * have been flying around for years.

[hlthe2b]

9. Ohh great..another gold digger steps forward

Your 15 minutes of fame was over 47 years ago... Just go away.

[Captain Hilts]

13. She did not come forward. She was 'outted' in an interview with Dallek, by a staffer. nt

[hlthe2b]

19. Yeah... that $1 million cash advance tells me she's unwilling....

Mimi Beardsley Alford, now 66, a retired New York church administrator, will receive an advance believed to be worth nearly $1 million (£630,000) from Random House, the publisher, for her memoir.


poor little thing--just an unwitting participant in this whole stink bomb :eyes:

[Captain Hilts]

20. Had she not been outted in the book and then found by the NYtabloids, she probably

would not have written the book.

[hlthe2b]

24. So?? Glad you are a fan.

She may be an old gold digger, a patient gold digger, but a gold digger nonetheless...

[Captain Hilts]

25. I'll bet you supported Thomas over Anita Hill. Same thing there. She was content to

keep quiet until others brought her name out.

I have no intent to buy this book but I understand that once the newspapers find you - no mean feat in her case as her name has changed - you want to get your side of the story out.

I'm a tepid fan of JFK overall. Reading Reeves' biography was enough for me. that and some of the new documents that have been declassified and published as part of the US Foreign Relations series.

[hlthe2b]

33. Well, that's a preposterous comment...

not even worth a reply since it makes no sense whatsoever. That I simply would not beam with pride over my 47 yo elicit affair to the extent of embarrassing my family, friends and that of the man with whom I had the affair..... nor seek to make $$ off of this event?

And, no, I will never forgive what was done to Anita Hill... But then you realize how ludicrous your little straw man was when you posted it, didn't you?

[Captain Hilts]

35. People blamed Hill for coming forward to tell her side when she had been outted in the hearings.

If it had been this woman's intention to get $$$ for this, I doubt she would have waited 44 years.

It did not come up until about 3-4 years ago when, in an oral history that Robert Dallek had, the story came out.

The NY tabloids hunted her down - through names changes as a result of marriage - and outted her by name.

[monmouth]

41. I hope she works for a Bishop in the Catholic Church...LOL...n/t

[imdjh]

10. I had sex with Johnson. Can I have a million dollars?

Well, not that Johnson, but who cares? He's dead and you can't prove I didn't.

[Captain Hilts]

11. It was a staffer who mentioned her in an interview with a historian. She is not the one

who brought the issue to the fore.

[imdjh]

14. Who's cashing the check?

[Captain Hilts]

16. The newspapers hunted her out after Dallek's book and published her current name.

so, she might as well get her side of the story out.

[TahitiNut]

12. No wonder he looked so relaxed when I saw him in late August 1962.

Strange. I was 19 years old then, too. (Cue Forrest Gump music.)

[Captain Hilts]

15. He told Harold McMillan he had to have sex at least once a day...

Odd that McMillan was also on the receiving end of Churchill's musing about his experiment in gay sex.

I guess folks liked to talk about sex with Harold M.

[upi402]

17. I remember tho$e days$ a$ more noble and enlightened

$ad too $ee u$ have to reach back to $mear our heritage like thi$.

[Iggo]

27. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

:boring:

[emilyg]

29. +1

[SalmonChantedEvening]

40. Thank you Iggo.

:)

[Stellabella]

30. Yeah, another person wanting to cash in on tales about a dead person.

Who can't defend himself or reply.

Classy.

not.

[no_hypocrisy]

31. Which one was she: Fiddle or Faddle?

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,945440-2,00.html

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

32. JFK screwed around???

[Captain Hilts]

34. Kind of funny how no one has said, "eww...gross. " Because it IS gross! nt

[EFerrari]

36. Why is it gross? DU sure can be puritanical sometimes.

:)

[Captain Hilts]

37. Because folks thought what Clinton did was. The age disparity here is as great.

And, yeah, I think it's gross, actually, for a lot of reasons.

[Orsino]

39. IT'S A ROVIAN PLOT!!!1!

Oops. Sorry. Carry on.