JFK and alleged affair with 19 year old intern

[frogertgrl]

Interesting, I guess. Such a different time back then...when these things were known among many but not dragged through the streets for the public to cheer and boo.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...nnedy_intern_1

"She had no skills. She could answer the phone," Robert Dallek, author of "An Unfinished Life," told "Dateline NBC" in an interview that aired Sunday. "Apparently, her only skill was to provide sexual release for JFK on those trips and maybe in the White House."

Gamarekian had asked that the 17 pages in her oral history dealing with the intern be kept secret for a decade, then later asked the Kennedy Library in Boston, where her account is archived, to keep it sealed.

[mahdokht]

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[Joyce in the mts.]

I didn't know that Eisenhower was a Dem!...Joyce in the mts.

[darlindeliasmom]

Or Bush Sr. I remember lots of whispers of a Jennifer in his past when Gennifer Flowers was in the news.
Not to mention Ronnie impregnating Nancy while married to his first wife. Such paragons of virtue, those R's!!

FWIW, I've heard that Kennedy's overactive libido was somehow allied to the endocrine disorder he suffered from and we weren't told about...anybody else remember hearing this?

[Arduinna]

Ha, dem presidents have a hard time keeping their pants zipped, lololol. Maybe they just don't have alot of sex hangups??

Personally since the question (regarding sex and clinton) wasn't applicable to the case (paula jones) it shouldn't have been allowed to be asked in court (consentual sex has no relation to sexual harassment) . And I don't think that we have a right to know if the pres gets a bj in the oval office or anywhere else. It's info that should be between the parties involved (he, his wife and anyone else he is having sex with). I still can't figure out the right wing facination with peoples sex lives. Well, I can guess, but I'm sure I'd get in trouble if I posted what I really think.

btw, using the term nasty to refer to any sexual act is really telling.

[frogertgrl]

Originally posted by Arduinna
btw, using the term nasty to refer to any sexual act is really telling.

ITA. What is up with that? More specifically, 'a nasty'. What is that?

[Arduinna]

LOLOL, I figured that The Nasty was what was meant. But what do I know?

The real reason that we don't remember any repub sex scandles:
Can anyone name a repub president that they would want to go down on????? I know I can't, lolol.

[insider]

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[mamaley]

Insider:

For the life of me I can't remember which president was left out.

I think I read somewhere that Nixon was very loyal to his wife.

[darlindeliasmom]

Ah, Nursing Mother, some of us very committed Christians figure that he or she who is without sin should cast the first stone...it kinda stuck in my craw that someone like Newt Gingrich, an elected official who also had quite a problem with morality and fidelity to his wife, led the attack on good ol' Bill.

I agree with you about the Kennedy thing, tho'. His disorder was not an excuse for his behavior...actiually it is an example of something we SHOULD have known about. I think he was a pretty effective president, considering that he was addicted to painkillers and had Addison's and whatever else... In his case, the philandering was partly a symptom of something much worse that the American people SHOULD have been told about. But the press was too damn flattered by him, I guess.

But I figure we should have known about Ronnie's Alzheimer's while in office...explains a lot to me!! (not entirely serious about this one, but I do wonder...my dad was definitely a different person for years before his diagnosis (Alzheimer's), but you couldn't quite put your finger on it...)

and could you please explain to me how Ronnie not cheating on his second wife when he was an old man excuses what he did when he was young? still a sin, in my book.

[sohj]

I think affairs/sexual infidelity are horrible; but I also think dragging them through the public gossip mongering is horrible. I always felt sorry for Chelsea.

I never voted for Clinton (or Bush Sr., either...I just didn't vote for the presidential office then ...or Dole) but I thought there could have been far better things to investigate him on. That just seemed so useless to spend time on at such a high level. It reminded me of listening to the Senate hearings in 1983 (? '82?) on rock lyrics. ....going off topic here... I couldn't believe that what with everything happening in the world (Libya, problems in Egypt, Israel, economic problems here, companies moving offshore and blaming unions for it, etc. etc.) our Senate's time was filled with discussions of Twisted Sister and WASP. Lousy bands, but certainly not a Federal Matter! And that was why I never could have voted for Gore. He brought it up because his wife wanted to make it an issue. No one had voted her in and it was a really inappropriate thing to waste time on. .... anyhow, I did wonder while the sex scandal was in ALL the papers, what WASN'T being reported that we really needed to know about.

Just curious.

[frogertgrl]

Thanks for the clarification of 'a nasty'. I thought the Federal issue for the House Managers in the Starr report was alleged obstruction of justice.

But between the Hyde, Livingston, Burton and Gingrich sexual misconduct, I got lost along the way. I keep meaning to re read the history from start to finish.

[Arduinna]

"You SHOULD be held more accountable for any illicit behavior."

ahh but who is deciding it's illicit?? That's fine if you both decide it's illicit in your relationship. But shouldn't each couple get to decide what is and isn't acceptable behavior??

And how does consentual sex become an "abuse of power"?? Monica never said he forced her and all reports seem to say that she was very much the persuer.

Last I checked adultery is not a crime (anymore) and morality (especially sexual morality) is subjective and should only be decided by those participating in the relationship. Of course, this is the same party that supports laws against homosexual relationships and sex ect. I'm not suprised at the peeping toms wanting to decide what people do in the bedroom.

[Tracy]

Nursingmother:

Bush's allegeded amore was Jennifer Fitzgerald.... she worked, I think as a low level diplomat or in the office...or something like that... I recall their tryst got a lot of noise (news) and it involved a swiss chalet.

I remember it because I was working on a tv show at the time and we wrote a lot of jokes about it.

If you care, you can do a google search.. she'll show up.


And no, it is not just republican presidents who can't keep it in their pants.
Frankly I always heard a lot of stories about our current president.... before he became president and was using substances.... I heard about his 'girlfriends' from other conservatives and other texans..

But of course, girlfriends don't bother me nearly as much as statements like "leave no child behind" but then cut the programs that can help children.

[pie]

hell, if it was true, lucky her.

[Tracy]

by the way...part of the humor in the whole thing when it went down... no pun intended.... was that barbara fitzgerald...well, she kind of looked like barbara bush...sort of matronly....

[Kylix]

Well I think we are talking about Presidents who have committed "indiscretions" WHILE holding the office of the Presidency

NM--It seems to me that your agenda here is to cast all democrats in a negative light and ignore any republican misbehavior. The fact that Reagan was unfaithful isn't important to you because he is a Republican and not because he did it before he was a US president.

It is irritating to no end that you can choose to ignore the acts of some politicians and then turn around persecute others for those same misdeeds or should I call them "nasties".

It is no secret to those who are willing to see it that politicians as a whole, republican, democrat and independent, have numerous affairs. Using moral criteria is moot IMO because just about everyone is in the wrong.

Kylix

[Hilary Briss]

and could you please explain to me how Ronnie not cheating on his second wife when he was an old man excuses what he did when he was young? still a sin, in my book.

He's getting paid back now. Just desserts IMNSHO.

[darlindeliasmom]

Hilary, 50 years of living with that dragon lady was payback enough, methinks, but THAT's just MNSHO!!

[Hilary Briss]

Yeah great payback To the women who has given her life in service and committment helping her dh deal with the devastational disease of Alzheimer's. I've heard she's been with him almost 24/7 caring and taking loving pains making his life more comfortable.

It's almost enough to make me believe there is a god.