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Posted on 05/17/2003 7:37:22 PM PDT by kattracks
Ex-President Bill Clinton will discuss his legacy at Boston's John F. Kennedy Presidential Library on May 28, in an event announced just hours after news broke that Kennedy, like Clinton, carried on a sexual relationship with a White House intern.
"Senator Edward M. Kennedy will introduce President Clinton, who will engage in a wide-ranging conversation with presidential historian Michael Beschloss," the Kennedy Library said, in a statement posted to it's Web site on Tuesday.
"President Clinton will reflect upon his own legacy and some of the central themes related to President Kennedy including the role of the U.S. in the world, domestic issues concerning the advancement of rights and opportunities for all Americans, and the importance of public service," the library explained.
News of the Kennedy intern scandal first appeared on Tuesday's front page of the New York Daily News, whose publisher, Mort Zuckerman, is a staunch Clinton media ally.
The revelation that Kennedy had the Clinton-like dalliance was merely alluded to in Robert Dallek's new Kennedy bio "An Unfinished Life," which offered a brief second hand account that an unnamed 19-year-old was kept on the White House staff primarily to provide Kennedy with "sexual release."
But Zuckerman's paper launched a full investigation. And by Thursday, the News had tracked down Marion "Mimi" Fahnestock, now a 60-year-old church worker in midtown Manhattan who confirmed that she carried on a sexual relationship with the 35th president from June 1962 to November 1963.
The result was a week's worth of front page headlines that made the JFK story one of the most talked about in the nation - and had conservatives wondering if those pushing the story hardest were actually more interested in rehabilitating Clinton's image.
Dallek himself is scheduled to address the Kennedy Library next Tuesday, in a session that will likely be dominated by Kennedy-Clinton comparisons - though the author himself has said that he considers the find relatively insignificant.
The JFK intern story wouldn't be the first time the Daily News publisher went to bat for Clinton in a big way. In 1995, both Zuckerman and then newly crowned House Speaker Newt Gingrich traveled with Clinton aboard Air Force One to and from Yitzhak Rabin's funeral.
Afterwards, the News published a front page story blasting Gingrich for throwing a temper tantrum - allegedly because he felt Clinton did not treat him with enough respect during the trip.
Under the headline "Crybaby," the News front-paged a characature of the leading Republican as a baby in diapers in the midst of a screaming fit. The report ended up being among the most damaging of all media attacks on Gingrich.
On Saturday the Daily News went so far as to make the JFK revelation the topic of an editorial - invoking the news to downplay the seriousness of the charges against Clinton.
"The story also fills a gap, however small, in the public record," the paper said. "And it provides some context: Bill Clinton, who was impeached because of his indefensible dalliance with Monica Lewinsky, was not, it turns out, the only Oval Office occupant with an eye for the interns."
In fact, Clinton was not impeached for his dalliance with Lewinsky, but because he perjured himself about the relationship in testimony before a federal judge and a grand jury in an attempt to obstruct justice in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case.
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Blair is the only one to write the story b/c of his facility with the truth, his egotistical sense
of entitlement, the ability to lie himself out of trouble, and to blame others for his travails.
Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
...why wouldn't TED KENNEDY do all he could to protect
HILLARY's Run for the U.S. Senate after JFK jr had
decided to run against her in New York despite
HILLARY's threats against him if he did =
...The JFK jr Tragedy..?
If only JFK Jr. hadn't died, he would
have made a wonderful New York Senator,
But, Hillary couldn't let that happen.
Is this the same Michael Beschloss who wrote the book about guns where he made averything up?
Sorry, but I can NOT read this author's name without getting an immediate mental image:
Any other Dr Who fans out there?
Thanks for posting the picture. :-)
Didn't the Kennedy Family for YEARS fight to save the reputation and legacy of JFK and the truth from being reveled to the public and yet the same Kennedy Family are scheduled to have this author speak about the comparisons of the Kennedy & Clinton??
We've all kinds of people, with all kinds of interests on FR. Post something, as you did, and many like minded souls will pop out of the woodwork. LOL
I've been a huge fan of Dr Who, since the early 80s and was overjoyed to watch some episodes, along the way, in London ( on various stays ), before they hit American T.V.!
OTOH, there has yet been a Hollywood star, boinked by Bill and his idiot 1/2 brother and then murdered on their orders.
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