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Reciprocal Intern-Exploitation-Purgation Attempt at JFK Library
"I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine...."
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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I have always thought Universal Health Care was the main goal and reason for Teddyboy's chumminess with the Clinton's --- now I think FBI files may really be the reason.
True .. this all is sad if you really think about it ..
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Didn't he also say, "I tried to get him (Bin Laden), but I didn't have enough intelligence" ?
Phil Gramm was simply off by a few years:
"People will be hunting Democrats with dogs by the end of the century" Phil Gramm (when asked what would result if Clinton's proposals were passed).
Thanks for the ping, Ronnie. This one's a keeper. Perhaps we can talk Doctor Raoul into attending? (^:
Talk talk talk, that's all he does is talk, but still balks at seeing the full impact of the truth of his sorry sad sack legacy.
Men who lie on their golf scores, men who live a lie, have no legacy to honor other than the legacy of scorn they deserve.
Kennedy we know was for media purposes a show President who behind the wholesome and athletic image of American family, was in fact a mild cripple (Addison, his back, lots of drugs, Marilyn Monroe, Mimi, etc.).
The above combined with the eldest Kennedy male dying during a near impossible WWII mission, Ted Kennedy's Chappaqua, RFK's targeted assassination, and capping it all off in the 90's with a skiing accident and death and a plane crash killing two women on board, would seem conclusive enough proof that the Kennedy legacy was largely fabricated and that Kennedy men carry a gene which predisposes them to self destruction,along with dubious impact on the American culture.
The Myth was made possible by a huge endowment made to American Liberal Institutions which continue to propagate this Myth.
By the way, why are Liberal Democratic Presidents of this era referred to by their initials: RFK, JFK,LBJ and Republican Presidents are not: Ford, Nixon, Regan and the first President Bush.
What is that called - some sort of truth abyss?
Kennedy (an adult) seduced and had sex with a minor (remember this was '62). Where are the femenists condemning this? Had this been Nixon, there would have been condemnations all around.
When you add Johnson with his Great (welfare) Society, the democrats have done nothing but rip this nation apart.
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