Posted on 05/26/2003 8:29:36 PM PDT by 7 x 77
White House intern Mimi Beardsley was the most scandalous of all of President John F. Kennedy's mistresses -- when they first had sex, she'd barely turned 19. And he thought she was a virgin!
Over the next 18 months the 45-year-old Kennedy frolicked with his teenage mistress on an Air Force jetliner, in a presidential limousine, on foreign trips, in the White House swimming pool and even in the mansion's upstairs bathtub.
The woman who's being called "Kennedy's Monica Lewinsky" kept silent about the affair for 41 years. It finally came to light when a JFK biographer got access to a long-sealed oral history in the Kennedy Library. And an ENQUIRER investigation into the scandal revealed:
• JFK told an aide that Mimi thought she was pregnant with his child!
• Kennedy told her that sex with his wife Jackie was unsatisfying -- and he frequently dallied with Mimi in Jackie's bedroom.
• Mimi fell in love with Kennedy and fantasized that he'd leave Jackie and marry her.
•Mimi was bosom buddies with two 20-something White House secretaties whose Seret Service code names wre "Fiddle" and Faddle" -- and both of them were also carrying on with JFK!
• Even though she worked in the West Wing press office without being able to type, she was always kept close to Kennedy -- who even risked taking her to a summit meeting with the British prime minister!
"Apparently her only skill was to provide sexual release for JFK," said the biographer, Robert Dallek, whose book "An Unfinished Life" is just hitting bookstores.
Noted Kennedy author Ted Schwartz told the ENQUIRER: "Kennedy is infamous for telling Peter Lawford that once he had a woman three different wways, he was done with her.
"But clearly this girl was different. She seemed to be a regular for a long time.
"Someday we may even learn whether Jackie was on to her. Jackie left an oral history of her own that may include what she knew about her husband's many indiscretions -- but it's not to be unsealed until 50 years after her death."
Mimi -- now a 60-year-old New York City grandmother who uses her married name Fahnestock -- owned up to the affair on May 14, a day after The ENQUIRER discovered her identity and talked to her at her New York apartment. She state: "From June 1962 to November 1963, I was involved in a sexual relationship with President Kennedy."
Mimi was a senior at the boarding academy that Jackie Kennedy had attended -- Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn. -- when she met the President in the spring of 1961.
She wangled an invitation to the White House to interview the First Lady for her school paper.
"When Jackie wasn't available, JFK decided to talk to her -- and there was an unstoppable chemistry between them," a Kennedy family source revealed.
The President himself arranged for Mimi to begin a summer internship after her freshman year at Wheaton College.
Immediately, she was thrust into a White House where skinny-dip frolics in the mansion's pool with Fiddle and Faddle and countless others were the order of virtually every day.
"Jackie was at the farm in Virginia that whole summer," a source who worked for her told the ENQUIRER.
"So Jack was free to do as he pleased -- and he did!
"Jack must have had a real thing for Mimi because he kept their romance so hidden. Believe me, there were some people who knew everything that went on, but they didn't know about Mimi."
Former White House press aide Barbara Gamarekian said that Fiddle and Faddle -- Priscilla Wear, then 21, and Jill Cowen, 23 -- became "great friends and bosom buddies with Mimi. There seemed to be no jealousy between them.
"It was a marvelous example of sharing, which I found very difficult to understand."
Said the Kennedy family source: "The intern was a stunning girl, leggy and full-figured for a teenager. Very innocent. JFK said she was a virgin until he seduced her."
One of their first trysts was in a White House bedroom.
"They made love in the Lincoln bedroom. They had sex while flying on Air Force On" said the family source.
"John revealed there was even a pregnancy scare, when she missed her period and thought she was expecting. JFK realy panicked. He told an aide, 'I don't know if I can keep this thing quiet. This has the potential to be the biggest presidential scandal ever.'
"And he told me, 'We were both terrified. But it was a false alarm and we both breathed a sigh of relief.'
"After that, she was more cautious and the President didn't have to worry.
"Jackie was suspicious of the girl. When I visited the White House, Jackie asked me what I knew about her. I flatout lied. I said I knew nothing.
"We warned John he was gambling with both his marriage and his presidentcy if the girl ever started talking.
"John just laughed, saying, 'She's not going to say anything. She's been told of the awful consequences that would follow a betrayal.
"'All my women get the same message. No one's ever dared to let me down.'"
Then on Aug. 5, 1962, Marilyn Monroe -- who had also had an affair with Kennedy -- died under mysterious circumstances, and "his words came back to haunt me," said the family source.
"Now I fully understood why this girl had kept the secret of her affair with the President. She was too scared to ever say anything."
Anmother Kennedy insider disclosed: "JFK risked discovery in many ways. Mimi was flown to secret liaisons with him in Air Force jets.
"Once presidential aides caught Mimi hiding on the floor of a limoousine in JFK's motorcade in the Bahamas!"
According to former aide Gamarekian, when the presidential entourage picked up JFK for a meeting with British prime minister Harold MacMIllian, Press Secretary Pierre Salinger and aide Chris Camp "saw the top of a little head over the door of the limo "and they thought there was a little child sitting in the seat.
"They walked over and looked in the car. There was Mimi, sitting on the floor so she wouldn't be seen!"
The ENQUIRER tracked down 77-year-old Salinger in France, but his wife said because of his advanced age he can no longer recall names and details.
At the White House, Mimi was only one member of the harem that romped in the pool with the President, said a source close to the Kennedy White House.
"His favorite setting for sex parties was in Jackie's bedroom. She'd had a cattle-hair mattress made for Jack's bad back, and it was placed next to her own bed, making an exceptionally wide bed.
"They even romped in the children's nursery and made love surrounded by picturews of Jackie's children.':
Biographer Schwartz, whose book on JFK's father Joseph Kennedy is due out in August, said:
"What JFK liked best was to be in the bathtub on his back -- with the woman on top. Since he had such a bad back, it was good for him to have something solid behind him as support."
Sex in the pool also eased his back pains.
Top investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, author of the book "The Dark Side of Camelot," discolosed that the daily hijinks would start with a presidential aide "scooping up" a few of the female staffers, escorting them to the pool, and then making cdertain that the entrances to it were blocked and guarded.
Even National Security Council members on urgent business had to wait until Kennedy was done with his carousing!
The family source told tThe ENQUIRER that Mimi "fell deeply in love with JFK and in her immature way, dreamed of the day he might leave Jackie to marry her.
"JFK had told her that his sex life with Jackie wasn't satisfying -- that she thought sex was for making babies, not for pleasure.
"He said, 'You give me the sexual happiness missing from my marriage.'"
In the meantime, Mimi had begun dating Anthony Fahnestock. When he asked her to marry him, Mimi told JFK, said the family source.
"She asked him if he thought she should become engaged. When he said 'yes' she burst into tears, asking if he really loved her.
"Of course, he said he did, adding 'but it's better this way. I can never leave my wife.'"
Brokenhearted, Mimi left the White House. A few weeks later, on Nov. 22, 1963, the President was assassinated in Dallas. And six weeks after that, she married Fahnestock.
"Her husband never learned about the love affair with JFK," the insider added. "For her, there was no other man than John F. Kennedy. She would always be in love with him."
"It was a marvelous example of sharing, which I found very difficult to understand."
The consequences of this are just horrendous. And terrible. And horrible-awful-no-good. The fate of the nation was hanging in the balance and... oh, nevermind. Who cares?
JFK fornincated in the room where his children played and their pictures were all around.
What a sick, sorry creep.
Do you think he is real toasty right now... fanning the flames for satan, I mean.
I bet Monica feels really short-changed, she only got one way.
Yeah, but did he ever get a blow job while talking on the phone to a U.S. congressman?
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