JFK and Mimi,
Slick and Monica
Posted on 05/25/2009 9:31:30 PM PDT by pissant
Mimi Beardsley Alford may get a seven-figure sum for her story, Philip Sherwell reports from New York.
A FORMER White House intern who had a 17-month affair with president John Kennedy is to tell her story for the first time.
Mimi Beardsley Alford, now 66, a retired New York church administrator, will receive an advance believed to be worth nearly $US1 million ($A1.3 million) from publisher Random House for her memoir.
Mrs Alford, who is breaking her silence after more than 45 years, maintained the secret about her relationship with the womanising president until a new Kennedy biography was published in 2003.
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 "tall, slender, beautiful" by Kennedy's biographer, Robert Dallek.
Ms Beardsley was tracked down and identified as a divorcee working for a Manhattan Presbyterian church who had told nobody about the affair.
She gave a brief statement confirming a "sexual relationship" had lasted until Kennedy's assassination in November 1963, but has said nothing more since then.
(Excerpt) Read more at watoday.com.au ...
JFK and Mimi,
Slick and Monica
The Kennedy Camelot historical legacy versus that of the “disgraced criminal” administration of Richard Nixon.
The difference is ALL in the media.
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Politicians are scum.
There were two girls in the White House swimming pool with JFK - is that called an affair?
A new motive for murder? (adjusting tin-foil hat)
Splish and Splash.
I think you are right about that. The media invented the Kennedy image. Kennedy was a very sleazy guy.
She gave a brief statement confirming a "sexual relationship" had lasted until Kennedy's assassination in November 1963, but has said nothing more since then.
Which means he was having that affair while Jackie was pregnant and when she miscarried.
MARKING
Interesting. No better than John Edwards.
Yes they did and yes he was.
# August 9, 1963 - Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, the third child of John and Jacqueline Kennedy, born six weeks premature, dies two days after his birth.[2]
Yeah, him and Edwards, two turds in the same toilet bowl.
And we would never have known about either if it was up to the MSM. But you can bet that if they had been Republican/Conservatives their names would have been dragged through the mud every day until they resigned.
” an intern in every pot”
Yes, America, there was a Mimi, a teenage cuddle for President John Kennedy back in 1962 and ‘63. But there was also a Pam, a Priscilla, a Jill (actually, two of them), a Janet, a Kim, a Mary and a Diana I can think of offhand.
The Kennedy sex industry will march on. Sharing the sheets with J.F.K. seems to have become a badge of honor—and perhaps a route to publishing riches. But beware of boasting or true confessions: I’ve never met anybody who was a witness in the bedroom. It is all circumstantial—or was, until Judith Exner, the Mob moll who wrote it down and changed everything.
Mimi Beardsley rings a bell for all of us creaky White House journalists, but it is easy to forget one or more of the young nymphs. They were once described by an astounded British visitor as being like new tennis balls with the fuzz still on them.
Mimi was another slender, pretty, pleasant young thing wandering in the White House corridors, looking for a desk and something to do that did not require shorthand or typing or any other known secretarial skill. How a senior at Miss Porter’s School captivated a swinging and sophisticated President is a mystery not yet solved—or perhaps it is. J.F.K. was captivated pretty easily. Testimony by some of Kennedy’s girls is that he was a lousy and hurried lover, but who cared when it was the leader of the free world, with all the trappings of power like Air Force One and the Lincoln Bedroom?
So Mimi now is Marion Fahnestock, mother of two, grandmother of four, and a church lady with the tony Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City. Actually, many of Kennedy’s girls have done well: wives, mothers, grandmothers, authors, painters, philanthropists, social workers, and there is even one who became a noted Hollywood impresario.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1004886,00.html
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You will notice according to this writer that it’s all the girls’ fault not that of a philandering President they helped protect from the country finding out about it.
At first, the old White House reporters had a hard time recalling Mimi. But at a monthly luncheon last week, we pieced together sightings of her slipping out of Air Force One and confirmed Gamarekian's account of the top of a female head being seen in one of the limousines in Kennedy's motorcade at the 1962 Bermuda summit with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. When staff and reporters looked in, Mimi was sitting on the floor of the car like a child playing hide-and-seek.
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I'm sure the 'reporters' just accidentally overlooked the fact that JFK was a sleaze. /s
the ravishing Indian journalist spotted by Kennedy in the Rose Garden and promptly invited to dinner at the White House
a friend’s alluring wife, whom he propositioned at a reception. When she said, “I’m married,” he replied, “So am I. What of it?”
Had he lived into a second term, there was a good chance that one of the numberless and heedless stories of sexual indulgence would have broken over his head, embarrassing him and his family, perhaps crippling his presidency.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1004886-2,00.html
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