That was the reason that the Thomas Jefferson/Sally Hemings story got such air play (later shown to be most unlikely, but the media trumpeted it as a "DNA match". Of course it was no such thing, and Jefferson's younger brother Randolph was a much more likely suspect.) After all, if one of the founding fathers had a liaison with a . . . gasp . . . slave woman, then what Billy Jefferson did wasn't so bad . . . right?
But the Kennedy story adds the mix of Camelot, plus the congruence is even closer . .. an actual intern.
Once the Clinton apologists fade away, this woman will be able to get back to a somewhat normal life.
I wish, however, that everybody didn't seem to be gloating about it and calling it a "gift". A dignified silence or "we do not wish to comment" would be so much more appropriate.