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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: Hal1950
Based on the testimony of one person and the desperation of an author to promote his book? Call me cynical.
81 posted on 05/13/2003 6:53:39 AM PDT by Let's Roll (And those that cried Appease! Appease! are hanged by those they tried to please!")
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To: jlogajan; saradippity; Let's Roll; honway; dix; Romulus
Your ignorance of medicine equals your vapid reading comprehension and grasp of history. (But I'm sure you dance very well and might even be able to parallel-park.)

If JFK was diagnosed in 1947 with a debilitating auto-immune disease that resulted in impotence, I doubt he was the stud-muffin they've speculated.

Of course you're aware being impotent does not preclude one from having children. It just makes it a lot less fun to initiate, and the odds of having a big family are not so hot.

I've been on these threads before; so have you. With the new book coming out soon by that noted Presidential historian, "Frank Sinatra's Butler," I'm sure we'll bump keyboards again.

You're a vital part of the agenda, after all.

82 posted on 05/13/2003 8:44:57 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of gray.)
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To: Hal1950
I know that Republicans are not exactly pure as the driven snow, but what is it with Democratic males? They can't seem to keep their pants up.
83 posted on 05/13/2003 9:17:55 AM PDT by MEGoody
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
I can't speak for the others, but I am one who does not believe the 19 year old intern story. I thought my post was clear on that. Please don't lump me in with the others when you are passing out the insults.
84 posted on 05/13/2003 9:50:22 AM PDT by Let's Roll (And those that cried Appease! Appease! are hanged by those they tried to please!")
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To: Let's Roll
Your post was clear and correct.

I pinged you (and the others) because it gets lonely on these let's-nuke-JFK threads, and I like to keep track of those who have the good sense, intelligence and compassion to agree with me. 8~)

85 posted on 05/13/2003 4:17:54 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of gray.)
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To: Hal1950
And she tried to convince him that tax cuts were a bad thing.
86 posted on 05/13/2003 4:20:17 PM PDT by ladyinred
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To: UCANSEE2
Thanks for the clarification!
87 posted on 05/14/2003 10:50:47 AM PDT by Revenge Of Daffy-Duck ({ Insert Evil Laugh Here })
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To: Revenge Of Daffy-Duck
Thank You. Of course, maybe you were being sarcastic and forgot the : ) !!!!!!!! Either way thanks for your response. We all have certain methods of getting information, and all are sure what we know is the truth. It is very likely no one of us knows the whole truth, about this or anything.
88 posted on 05/14/2003 3:18:59 PM PDT by UCANSEE2
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
JFK intern admits all
City church worker, 60, says, 'I was the Mimi'

89 posted on 05/15/2003 8:39:01 AM PDT by jlogajan
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To: uncitizen
It's much easier for the Clinton Legacy Rebuilders to tear down JFK, than to make Clinton respectable.

It's much easier to bail out the Pacific Ocean with an eyedropper than to make Clinton respectable.

90 posted on 05/15/2003 8:43:11 AM PDT by steve-b
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To: jlogajan
Thanks for the link to another "41-year-old secret" that someone just had to tell.

I take all of it with a grain of salt since researching Judith Exner and learning she wasn't the randy gunmoll she was painted to be. Exner was the rich, well-bred, conntected daughter of German nationals with lots of secrets of her own.

There's always more to these stories than they want us to know.

In this case, I think Addison's disease and 41 years of silence and Clinton's need for rehabilitation trump some questionable 60-year-old intern's sudden catharsis.

91 posted on 05/15/2003 5:55:38 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of gray.)
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To: UCANSEE2
No sarcasm intended! I come here to learn, as well as to speak my mind. Again, thanks for the help.

Adios!
92 posted on 05/15/2003 7:07:05 PM PDT by Revenge Of Daffy-Duck ({ Insert Evil Laugh Here })
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
In this case, I think Addison's disease and 41 years of silence and Clinton's need for rehabilitation trump some questionable 60-year-old intern's sudden catharsis.

You are either a kook or a crank -- in either case no amount of evidence can dissuade you from your preconceived notions.

Kennedy was well known by the press to have had multiple affairs. In this case this "intern" was first described in 1964 and recorded on paper in an interview with Barbara Gamarekian, a White House aide. Thirty nine years later the documented interview is released from the White House records and Gamarekian verifies she said it. Then someone finds "Mimi" Marion Fahnestock (nee Beardsley) and she also confirms she did have an affair with Kennedy.

So we have hundreds if not thousands of JFK contemporaries who knew of his exploits, aides who committed such observations to paper right after his assassination, and now some of those involved in the affairs admit as much.

But oh, no -- crank/kook Dr. Eckleburg knows better -- on the theory that since some diabetics are blind, all diabetics must be blind, the kook Dr. Ecklburg claims that since some Addison's disease sufferers are impotent, all Addison's disease sufferers must be impotent. The logic of a kook.

You are, for the second time, dismissed.

93 posted on 05/15/2003 8:54:06 PM PDT by jlogajan
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To: Hal1950
Author says JFK had affair with 19-year-old intern

But did he deny it under oath after getting dragged into court for sexual harrassment?

94 posted on 05/15/2003 8:55:11 PM PDT by paulklenk
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To: paulklenk
But did he deny it under oath after getting dragged into court for sexual harrassment?

I don't think the concept of "sexual harrasment" had been invented yet. I don't think the Kennedy's would have blinked twice at the idea of trashing anyone that got in their way.

95 posted on 05/15/2003 8:57:37 PM PDT by jlogajan
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To: Hal1950
...that's the Degeneratic way!
96 posted on 05/15/2003 9:10:22 PM PDT by Henchman
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To: Hal1950
the "facination with things kennedy" would go away if the truth had been allowed to come out, and she doesn't seem to want to help that either.
97 posted on 05/15/2003 9:12:39 PM PDT by liberalnot (what democrats fear the most is democracy .)
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To: jlogajan
Name-calling now, eh? Four "kooks" and two "cranks" in one post?

You're a master of the language.

Read more history and watch less reruns of "Saved By the Bell."

98 posted on 05/15/2003 10:44:18 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of gray.)
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