JFK and 19-year-old White House intern Mimi Alford -- a truly shameful revelation

Fox News ^ | February 07, 2012 | Phyllis Chesler

[Ron C.]

This is a story about a young and impressionable female intern in the White House -- a virgin, with girlish dreams about princes and presidents. Young girls are trained to marry the wealthiest or most powerful man on the block. When the prince comes calling, few young girls can resist this opportunity.

However, they are not the ones who are abusing power and betraying both youth and a wife. That would be the prince or president himself.

And no, I am not talking about Monica Lewinsky in the Clinton White House.

I am talking, sadly, about the recent revelations by a former intern, Mimi Alford, in the Kennedy White House. Alford is no Marilyn Monroe, who was reputedly the mistress of both John F. and Robert F. Kennedy. Nor, is she Judith Exner, who was reputedly the "Mata Hari" connection between President Kennedy and Sam Giancana, a Mafia operative. These were adult women who chose to use their sexuality to further their careers.

[Rudder]

The Alfreds

After:

During:

[NCjim]

[Lucas McCain]

So was Jackie. She sold herself to the highest bidder after JFK died.

[Peter from Rutland]

This story is a smoke screen for the revelation from Jackie that she suspected that LBJ was in on the hit.

[RJS1950]

Not many knew before the election but it wasn’t long after that word and rumors started to spread. There was at least one comedic LP making fun of the president, his girlfriends etc. I also read an article about his wartime tryst with a Scandinavian spy. I was aware of all of this as a teenager living in South Dakota so I know a lot of others knew about it as well. Many just refused to believe any of it and some still won’t.

[fight_truth_decay]

..and the young Kennedy wives were well aware. They accepted just as Rose has accepted. I have a deceased relative who was "a friend" of the senior Kennedy. Beacon Hill has lots of stories to tell.

The young Alford did say a powerful and handsome man was paying attention to her, had picked her-- was exciting and she fell into love.

Thousand other stories out there.

[momtothree]

“Young girls are trained to marry the wealthiest...”

I agree with you BR. I don’t know anyone who “trains” their daughter to go after someone based on wealth or power. The article makes it sound that what they did was standard procedure and it’s not. Young girls who go after married men had a different name in my household when I was growing up (to be fair, so did the married men who cheated).

[Kit cat]

I believe Jackie needed to get her kids away from the Kennedy clan at
any cost!!!! Jackie felt she did the right thing for her kids, Jackie was well
aware of what the Kennedy’s were.

[cicero2k]

Hope he had changed his mind and heart before that bullet tore his brains out.

No doubt the most important shot of many lifetimes.

Examples:

Would we have gone to the moon, otherwise?

Would we have expanded Vietnam to rediculous proportions?

Would we have the "Great Society".

[FreeAtlanta]

The only difference with Obama is that he likes the guys.

[Hot Tabasco]

I’m not sure this story couldn’t be about any male person in politics these day.......

[Ron C.]

"semi-public horndogs"

LOL - yep, I knew - but I remember too well the many who thought that the Kennedy's were 'devout Catholics that would never do anything wrong.'

Maybe it was 'willful ignorance' - because they all wanted to do what the Kennedy's got away with, and they admired them for doing so.

[Tax-chick]

“Young girls are trained to marry the wealthiest ...”

Which young girls? Not my mother, not me, not my daughters. In fact, I don't know any woman who has married anyone wealthy or powerful ... except my boss at church, who came from a wealthy family and married a Spanish surgeon from high society in 1960. But they lost everything when the Socialists took over Spain in the early '00s.

[bray]

After his father shorted the market into a the Great Depression to make himself a billionaire, this is small potatoes.

Pray for America

[count-your-change]

Actually it was Eisenhower helping the French got “us into Vietnam” by sending “advisors”.

[bwc2221]

Don't expect much MSM coverage.

[bwc2221]

“FOX NEWS???? More pro-Romney and anti-Newt subliminals??? Yah think??”

No, what I think is that you are paranoid.

[fight_truth_decay]

No she actually did not. She had known Aristotle Onassis for some time during her visits to Italy to be with her sister. She knew that her husband was “playing around”, so she would take their son to Italy for weeks—did not go over real well with the rest of the family. There she met Onassis as a friend of “their group” and he fell in love with her. I don't fall in line with those that wrote they had been having an affair, as her son was always with her. Her sister,Lee Radziwill, was her rock. Just because her husband had been an habitual cheater did not mean Jackie was, but stories later were written. Jackie was a practicing Catholic and would never divorce. Later in reading much of their lives over the years and a mini series on Kennedy Woman; I got to thinking another person who would have benefited with the President out of the picture would be the rich, powerful, and in love— Onassis. As we know they later married, he died in ‘75. She then began a publishing career.

Stephen King's latest book 11/22/63 is excellent. What if you could change the past-change history.

[EDINVA]

As I understand it, Jackie had a ‘reputation’ at GWU before she ever met JFK.

[Lady Lucky]

I’m not sure Joseph P. Kennedy was ever a billionaire. There weren’t many back then.