I don’t have Mimi’s book right here but that intern affair was more scandalous than the later Monica-Bill liaison. Mimi was younger, a virgin before JFK, and Mimi was put on the official White House travel roster so she could be on call for him. On some later trips she traveled but not as part of the official travel staff.
“I’d rather my children be red than dead,” he allegedly told Alford at the time, according to the New York Post.