Mimi Alford’s story could still be fiction. We do not know.
Anyone saying her story is true or not true is assuming unproven allegations are or are not true.
What we do know is JFK was a patriot and a conservative.
Mimi Beardsley’s story checked out seven ways to Sunday. She was on the White House travel lists at times which was completely out-of-the-ordinary for an intern.
JFK was no conservative even if you cite his initial friendship with Joe McCarthy and his tax cuts. But his appointments as president: Ted Sorenson, Arthur Schlesinger, John Kenneth Galbraith, RFK, McGeorge Bundy, et al were solidly to the Left. His neither-here-nor- there actions with the Bay of Pigs showed extreme vacillation and weakness. His assassination plots against three foreign leader simultaneously (Trujillo, Castro, and Diem) were amateurish, criminal, and without an end game. Diem’ coup tied or flag to the future debacles and power vacuums in South Vietnam. His Peace Corps was and still is “a juvenile experiment” just as Eisenhower said it was.
He was neither.
I know there are still some JFK loyalists left. He was charismatic. He was a far better actor than Ronald Reagan...that’s about all I got.
But I’m not denigrating your loyalty. It is what it is, and loyalty is an admirable characteristic.
JFK was no Conservative. His voting record in the Senate was 1% better than LBJ’s, but that difference was not significant. Basically they were on the same page, but LBJ used the JFK assassination to push through the common agenda.