JFK's liaisons, Jackie's pain

New York Daily News | 5/18/03 | TRACY CONNOR

[Howlin]

And a smoker, to boot!

Not to mention that at her death, she, too, was involved with a married man.

[Howlin]

Everything should be in her new book.

Aren't you the dreamer.

[visitor]

this woman sends shivers down my spine just listening to her speak, while I would just as soon let the clintons, jfk's and other dems continue their self immolation, it does my heart good to read your posted article and her column that newspapers apparently have not seen fit to publish :^(...rto

PS: has anyone noticed the similarity in   behavior, i.e., young girls, of jfk, bjc and saddam. and it's also interesting that the baath party was helped into power in '63 by the kennedy administration.

[Randjuke]

"Jackie came from an upper class where this kind of behavior, though not applauded by women, was widely expected by them," he said.

Where do I find this kind of upper class and can I get information on membership?

[CyberAnt]

Exactly! Another re-write of the x42 legacy! That's all this book is for ... by the way!!

[FITZ]

"Jackie came from an upper class where this kind of behavior, though not applauded by women, was widely expected by them," he said. "Nonetheless, it wasn't easy to live with."

She stayed for the money --- "doing it" for the money makes you a whore. Jackie knew he didn't love her ---the marriage was for mutual financial/political gain. Just like the Clinton's ---it's a sham but Hillary is in it for what she hopes to get from it.

[FITZ]

Class is realy a couple like the Reagans or George and Laura Bush. Plenty of other examples too. I can't imagine Nancy Reagan ever having the lack of class that she would have put up with affairs --and vice versa. Kennedys are white trash that just have big money ---and that was from bootlegging and other criminal activities.

[Colonel_Flagg]

By the way, why are Liberal Democratic Presidents of this era referred to by their initials: RFK, JFK,LBJ and Republican Presidents are not: Ford, Nixon, Regan and the first President Bush.

Because you had to be able to tell the Kennedys apart and Johnson was often referred to by all three of his names.

I would be one of the last persons on this board to defend the Kennedy family but there's nothing sinister in this. I'd expect GWB will get the same shorthand to tell him from his father.

[whereasandsoforth]

Defend the Kennedys??? I've scrapped higher-class gunk off my toilet bowl jets. The only Kennedy with any value was Rosemary. And you know where that got her.

[Neenah]

I guess Jackie had a "boys will be boys' outlook. What could she do? Sad. I hope Father Oscar Huber was quick with the Last Rites thing in Dallas.

What could she do ? Apparently she had the scruples of Hillary Clinton. They were both whores for power and Jackie for fame and money. She relished the spotlight, and now looking back, I feel no sympathy for this woman who the pee-ons were weeping for..." POOR JACKIE !! " She put up with it because she wanted to !

She probably knew it when she married him and did it anyhow to gain the fame. What a bottom of the barrel we scraped, and oh how they fooled an entire nation. (Well, some at least.)

Heck, with that crowd I wouldn't put it past them to drive off a bridge with a little plaything , and let her drown....and grow up rewarded to serve FOREVER as Senator !!

[mewzilla]

It's the teeth, right? What's with those teeth? I've been wondering for a while if John Kerry is some relation.

[weegee]

Boo hoo. Jackie was an enabler and coined the concept of "Camelot". She foistered a phoney notion of nobility (or even sainthood on JFK's legacy) and was a gold digger to boot.

[weegee]

I'd just settle for hearing the SeeBS news broadcaster on the radio refer to him as President Bush instead of Mr. Bush.

[jackbill]

1. Looks

2. Miss Lilian was Joe Kennedy's secretary

Nice story, but fiction. Ms. Lillian was in training to be a nurse in Plains, GA and met Earl Carter before she finished. They married in Sept. 1923 and had Jimmah a year later.

Check out:

http://www.sowega.net/~plainsed/research/profiles/LillianCarter.htm

[Paleo Conservative]

No big deal Jackie was French and the best part of it she was a Democrat.

She was a Republican before she married Jack Kennedy. Her father gave money to lots of Republicans.

[Paulus Invictus]

There were records that JFK actually did marry a young socialte in Palm Beach, but the old man put the kibosh on it and did everything he could to hide the evidence, including a raid on the county offices to destroy copies of the marriage license. The story was included in the book, "Reckless Youth" about a really reckless youth who became our first RATporn president (but not the last---then came Klintoon!).

[CathyRyan]

Oh well, guess that is why you do not hear that rumor much when talking about the Kennedys.

[DoughtyOne]

In the last few years, I had a chance to catch some footage of Jackie giving her White House tour via television from the early 60s.  To say I came away shell shocked is an understatement.

Here was a young woman who was clearly in over her head.  Viewing the presentation as an adult, I realized that her persona had also been manufactured by the media.  I had been given the impression that she was a stately erudite aristrocrat, the product of breeding and society's finest underpinnings.  In the footage I watched she was a nervous young woman trying to look stately but missing the mark by a mile.

The thought of this woman being the first lady left me thinking more Roseline Carter than Eleanore Rosevelt.

For all the talk of Democrats being cognizant and sensitive of women's issues, I am amazed to view some of their 'icons' interactions with them.