Posted on 02/05/2012 8:52:30 AM PST by jakerobins
And the philandering Kennedys were forever protected by “fifth column” MSM. Unfortuantely we may never see a truly free press.
I don’t think so.
Shouldn’t be a surprise - JFK was known to be a run-around dog, but the media didn’t cover it either. Theories abound that Marylin Monroe provided pre-Lewinsky, Lewinskys on JFK and her “inside” knowledge might have contributed to her “accidental” death.
I'm not sure what a “disservice” means, but the truth is this:
Joe Sr controlled and directed everything. And his directions were very simple: get Joe jr. something he can create a war record to run for President on, but is not likely to get him hurt. Numerous possibilities were considered. When the Navy was given B-24s to hunt subs with in the Atlantic, this was selected. A four engine plane was considered less likely to suffer a mechanical. His training was also delayed until it was certain the German Air Force had been swept from the skies over the Atlantic so there would be no chance of being shot down.
Unfortunately, by the time Joe Sr allowed Jr into combat, there were also no subs to hunt either. Compounding the issue was his brother's libido getting him sent to the Pacific, where he had become somewhat of a hero. Sr’s long term plan was that Jr would be President and JFK would be a historian. The plans were going seriously wrong as the historian would have a better war record than the President?
About that time the ‘flying bomb program’ came along. It was perfect. There was a lot of concern about sending unmanned aircraft crashing into cities, since the V-1 program was already known and being condemned as cowardly. How would it look to be essentially doing the same thing? The solution was to classify the program ultra top secret and seal the records for 30 years. And indeed, it was the 1970s before you could even find anyone that would admit it existed.
It was a Godsend for Joe Jr's required war record. He could say he had participated in a program so top secret that he still couldn't talk about it. And it was believed to be of minimal risk. Unfortunately his copilot didn't trust a portion of the system that was radio controlled. He jammed a wooden block into the mechanism to keep it from being actuated accidentally. That unfortunately let to an overheating that set off the bombs prematurely and killed both of them.
That's the truth. Service it how you will. I find very little of it to be even the least bit heroic. Especially when your consider what other people that served in the World War II, like my Dad, experienced.
Reportedly someone told Clinton a story that during one of the anti-war protests in Washington, one of the female protesters was invited into the White House and she and LBJ ended up having sex on the carpet in the Oval Office. Whether or not the story was true, it seems to have inspired Clinton. "Go thou and do likewise" and all that.
Looks like he resents his grandpa.
Wonder why?
Convenient, isn't it?
Nice thought, but I don't think we've actually had that, at least as it regards the ruling classes since probably before the 30s. If she'd tried to cry rape, it would have probably resulted in her early demise.
I despise the Kennedys, but the mission Joe Jr died on seems to have been pretty high risk:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aphrodite#Mission_theory
Last year a 23 year old woman who works for the company I'm at was having an affair with one of our 59 year old VP's. It was a consensual affair. Many young women are attracted to older, powerful men.
Oh BTW the 23 year old is HOT!!!
FWIW, the "Mimi Beardsley" story has been out for 8 years.
When it broke in 2003, she was better known by her married name of Marion Fahnestock.
My comment on the 2009 story "Paramour of Kennedy Is Writing a Book (JFK's intern)":
Jackie thought it was a "power mower" that Jack was riding every weekend.
Ba-bum-bump. I'll be here all week! Try the veal!
How may future presidents from less than meager backgrounds who have missing periods in their biographies, spent time in the former USSR in their early adulthood, and have communist sympathies just happen to have pictures of themselves shaking hands with former iconic presidents.
During World War I the Navy let a contract for an “aerial torpedo.” A company owned by Lawrence Sperry actually hit a target from 90 miles away with fragile wood and fabric biplanes. Some of the usual tomfoolery of military contracting kept them from getting the contract, and eventually the Navy pretty much gave up on the whole idea. But a young Army officer named Hap Arnold had been allowed to witness the tests, and he was impressed.
Thirty years later and Arnold is the head of the Air Force. England is littered with obsolete model B-17s. Remembering the earlier Navy tests, he comes up with the idea of loading these obsolete aircraft up with bombs and flying them into targets to heavily defended to attack conventionally.
Through a combination of not having the correct people there, and lack of interest in general, it was a fiasco. The biggest problem was bomb arming. They had the right idea to take off without the bombs armed, and then arm them in flight. But many times when they tried to arm the bombs, the aircraft blew up.
In desperation Arnold got in touch with the Navy, thinking they still had data or expertise from the World War I test that might be of use. Instead of joining the effort, the Navy basically went into competition with the Army. They also had obsolete B-24s and figured to show up the Army. Kennedy was part of the Navy program and had nothing to do with any of the aircraft mentioned in the wiki article.
The Navy also had what would later prove the correct idea. They had a radio controlled bomb arming system. The crew was to jump out, and be safely away, before the command to arm the bombs was given. The sharpest technical guy in the outfit was assigned to be Kennedy's co-pilot.
While this fellow was really sharp technically, he had no confidence in the radio controlled system. Since he didn't trust the radio part, he took a wooden stick that was used to hold open a hatch and jammed it between the bomb arming mechanism and the bombs. His thinking was that this would keep a stray radio signal from arming the bombs accidentally. What subsequent tests proved was that with this piece of wood jammed into place, it forced the mechanism back too far. The motor that moved the mechanism was energized trying to push it back into the correct place. After about three hours the motor would catch fire and cause the bombs to explode.
There was some confusion the morning of the flight and they circled around for about - three hours. They were just about to be given the command to jump when it exploded. If the copilot had gone to the back to remove his stick, he might have noticed the overheated motor and avoided the whole incident.
The system was later tested and found to work fine - as long as you didn't jam a stick into the works. As far as danger goes, the average B-17/B-24 pilot that was heading for Germany would have GLADLY traded places.
I’ve read he even spoke to foreign leaders of his “need” for women, so they were procured for him, and the women were waiting when he arrived to their country.
The perverted president used his position of power to take advantage of a young virgin. What are the chances he would have stopped if she told him to?
othertoostuff
Kennedy, alone and grieving the death of his infant child, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, reached out for his young confidante.
“I had never seen real grief in my relatively short life,” she writes.
While Jackie was still recovering in Cape Cod, Kennedy was back at the White House.
“He invited me upstairs, and we sat outside on the balcony in the soft summer evening air. There was a stack of condolence letters on the floor next to his chair, and he picked each one up and read it aloud to me. Some were from friends and others from strangers, but they were all heartfelt and deeply moving. Occasionally, tears rolling down his cheeks, he would write something on one of the letters, probably notes for a reply. But mostly he just read them and cried. I did, too.”
JFK's moral depravity is staggering. His wife loses a child and is bedridden. Meanwhile, he is sitting on the WH balcony with his mistress reading aloud private condolence letters addressed to him and his wife. He pretends to be in grief, and the context establishes that he was pretending, so that his mistress will indulge and affirm his behavior. This was an abject betrayal of his wife in her most vulnerable moment. Someone of Joe Sr's character would have been proud.
About to be married to her college sweetheart, Tony Fahnestock, she met Kennedy for the last time at The Carlyle hotel in Manhattan on Nov. 15, 1963, just seven days before his assassination.
Knowing his mistress is about to marry a man whom she met during their affair, JFK carries on the affair. He says that he wants to continue the affair after her marriage: "I will call you anyway." JFK wasn't even willing to give her budding marriage a fighting chance, even after deceiving her husband-to-be for over a year.
JFK was likely pondering the next tryst as Oswald pulled the trigger. This has a symmetry.
Fifty years of liberal myth-building has gone up in smoke.
"Profiles in Courage" should be renamed "Profiles in Craven".
If I were her husband, I’d be sleeping in another room. I don’t think I could live with a woman who essentially lives with two me, one in her mind and the other that she doesn’t care for as much.
I think you are right on. Keep personal things like this
completely quiet. What good does spreading that news around anyway. Everyone has little episodes in their lives that should be kept quiet and personal.
Jennikins.
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