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Author says JFK had affair with 19-year-old intern
Associated Press ^ | May 12, 2003 | AP

Posted on 05/12/2003 11:31:43 AM PDT by Hal1950

Author says JFK had affair with 19-year-old intern
Claim comes from ex-White House aide

NEW YORK (AP) -- President John F. Kennedy had an affair with a 19-year-old intern who traveled with him on official trips, according to a new biography of Kennedy.

"She had no skills. She could answer the phone," Robert Dallek, author of "An Unfinished Life," told "Dateline NBC" in an interview that aired Sunday. "Apparently, her only skill was to provide sexual release for JFK on those trips and maybe in the White House."

Dallek learned of the affair from a White House aide, Barbara Gamarekian, whose oral history was recently unsealed.

Gamarekian told the Daily News that she remembers only the young intern's first name, which she refused to reveal.

"It amazes me there continues to be such fascination with all things Kennedy," Gamarekian, 77, told the newspaper.

Kennedy is known to have had numerous extramarital liaisons, but this is the first report of an affair with an intern.

"There were lots of women," Dallek, whose book comes out Tuesday, told the newspaper. "The real question is: Did it distract him from his job as president? I think it really didn't."

Gamarekian had asked that the 17 pages in her oral history dealing with the intern be kept secret for a decade, then later asked the Kennedy Library in Boston, where her account is archived, to keep it sealed.

Dallek discovered the blacked-out pages while researching his book and persuaded her to disclose the information.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: affair; anunfinishedlife; intern; jfk; robertdallek; sex
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To: biblewonk
Everyone knows Beelzebubba wanted to be just like JFK.

One disappointment was that he neglected to schedule a motorcade through Dallas for Nov. 22, 1995. Perhaps Memphis or Nashville would've been more appropriate (V.P. Algore's home state).

Anyway, I can only guess he found the right combination of hallucinogens to make Hillary look like Jackie.

61 posted on 05/12/2003 1:10:06 PM PDT by newgeezer (Admit it; Amendment XIX is very much to blame.)
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To: Cicero
"Kennedy expected any girl he met to sleep with him, he pursued fresh prey every day, and he didn't much care who they were or how old they were. "

I use to have an aunt that was a secretary at the WH during the Kennedy years and she alluded to pretty much the same thing.

62 posted on 05/12/2003 1:13:30 PM PDT by Kerberos (Ah yes the liberal democrats, united as ever in opportunism and error. Tony Blair 3/18/03)
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To: Hal1950
Are we suppose to be surprised by this:)

Becky
63 posted on 05/12/2003 1:27:55 PM PDT by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
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To: CedarDave
Hoover: No.
Coolidge: No.
Harding: Yes.
Wilson: Yes
Taft: No.
Roosevelt: No.
64 posted on 05/12/2003 1:28:08 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: The Old Hoosier
I think this story has a dual purpose. You are exactly right the libs think they can say, how could you agree with someone who advocates tax cuts who has such low morals? Since liberals don’t mind eating their own, of course the other purpose is since they think Kennedy was such a great president (he wasn’t), they can say all the great presidents had bimbos on the side including Bubba.

Where they are missing the boat is Kennedy never lied about his private life under oath, and another thing that just kills them that they won’t admit is at least until he died, he was no liberal. If he had lived he might have been.
65 posted on 05/12/2003 1:28:32 PM PDT by dix
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To: smiley
Sure, that's the ticket. Venereal disease at the ripe old age of 10.

Soon we'll hear JFK was a groper in the cradle.

Kindly read my post #49.

66 posted on 05/12/2003 1:31:40 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of gray.)
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To: newgeezer
Anyway, I can only guess he found the right combination of hallucinogens to make Hillary look like Jackie.

Dude, are you hungry?

67 posted on 05/12/2003 1:31:45 PM PDT by biblewonk (Spose to be a Chrissssstian)
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To: Hal1950
Now we know why they had to change the carpet in the oval office so often!Rug burns from knees!
68 posted on 05/12/2003 2:00:58 PM PDT by INSENSITIVE GUY
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To: Revenge Of Daffy-Duck
Is it Dallek who claims JFK was a big pot-head?

Claim, maybe, true, no.

JFK was on drugs, but not recreational. The most reliable information I have found shows that both Jackie and John were kept 'high' on methamphetamines by the White House Physician. This was in an effort to allow them to handle the demands of being President. At the time, amphetamines and their derivatives had not the negative connotation they do today. The President being kept "UP" by meth injections was likely considered no worse than mouthfuls of 'bennies' and black beauties the truck drivers were taking.

Jackie had to be hospitalized several times due to 'overexhaustion'( Known today as tweaking too long, and crashing.)

69 posted on 05/12/2003 4:52:46 PM PDT by UCANSEE2
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
But he crossed those who could and did blow his brains out for all of us to see and take heed.

Well said.

In 1963, an organization existed that could arrange the assasination of the President of the United States and orchestrate a cover-up that included the participation of the Warren Commission and the FBI.
I wonder if a group that powerful is still around or did they disband voluntarily?

70 posted on 05/12/2003 6:24:56 PM PDT by honway
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To: Hal1950
The intern info is new, but it has been known a long time now that Kennedy employed two full time "secretaries" at the Whitehouse who also had no secretarial skills -- they were, in fact, full time prostitutes.
71 posted on 05/12/2003 9:17:29 PM PDT by jlogajan
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To: jlogajan; honway
Please see my post #49.

Did he have Addison's Disease or not?

72 posted on 05/12/2003 9:31:14 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of gray.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Did he have Addison's Disease or not?

If you don't know, don't ask me. Do your own research.

73 posted on 05/12/2003 9:37:02 PM PDT by jlogajan
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To: jlogajan
Cite JFK's policies and the family howls all day. Call him a philanderer and adulterer and they are strangely silent.
74 posted on 05/12/2003 9:40:08 PM PDT by breakem
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To: jlogajan; breakem; honway
Sorry, I thought you knew what you were talking about.

Addison's disease presents itself in impotence, early-on and progressive.

It's been written for 30 years that JFK had advanced Addison's Disease which was diagnosed in his youth.

It begs the question...was this supposed serial philanderer impotent? If so, the Rat Pack had lots more fun than he did.

Facts so often get in the way when the topic is JFK.

This article is just more Necrophilia-chic.

75 posted on 05/12/2003 10:26:23 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of gray.)
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To: Hal1950
The women of Kennedy's Camelot and Clinton's Raw Deal were destined to go down in history.
76 posted on 05/12/2003 10:35:30 PM PDT by Consort
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Thankyou Dr. Eckleburg,those very thoughts cross my mind every time someone mentions relooking at the Warren commission's report followed almost overnight by the discovery of a new "affair" that Kennedy had.

In additon to Addisons Disease,he was also pretty debilitated with back problems incurred during the war.People don't seem to realize that he was not a popular president until he died and the press was always looking for problems. They constantly carped about how we should have been told that he had many physical disabilities that made him unfit for the grueling rigors of the office of president. I recall that he had an old physical therapist who had to provide therapy treatments for his back and he never bent down and picked up his kids. Certainly a person like him would have been aware of the publicity value of some great pics holding his little kids,giving them piggy back rides etc. I never saw them.

I would bet my bottom dollar that had Chelsea not been a tall and "solid" thirteen year old both Bill and Hilary would have tried to cuddle and carry her in their arms for a little "family face" time.

IMO This is only to mitigate the damages that the new ads running about all of Kennedy's conservative policies will do.

77 posted on 05/12/2003 11:04:01 PM PDT by saradippity
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Addison's disease presents itself in impotence, early-on and progressive.

Oh brother! Kennedy was diagnosed with Addison's in 1947. He fathered Caroline Kennedy in 1957 and John Jr in 1960 -- the year of his election to president.

"Addison's disease occurs when the adrenal glands do not produce enough of the hormone cortisol and in some cases, the hormone aldosterone."

"The symptoms of adrenal insufficiency usually begin gradually. Chronic, worsening fatigue and muscle weakness, loss of appetite, and weight loss are characteristic of the disease."

"Treatment of Addison's disease involves replacing, or substituting, the hormones that the adrenal glands are not making."

was this supposed serial philanderer impotent?

Obviously not in 1960, 13 years after being diagnosed with Addison's.

Like I said, next time do your own research and then you won't have to make a fool of yourself. You are dismissed.

78 posted on 05/13/2003 6:36:11 AM PDT by jlogajan
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To: saradippity
See above.
79 posted on 05/13/2003 6:40:32 AM PDT by jlogajan
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To: CedarDave

80 posted on 05/13/2003 6:41:49 AM PDT by daylate-dollarshort (http://www.strato.net/~cmranch)
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