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New York Times Mimi Alford, seen here in a 1963 portrait as a White House intern. She always called him "Mr. President" - not Jack. He refused to kiss her on the lips when they made love. But Mimi Alford, a White House intern from New Jersey, was smitten nonetheless.
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Four days into her internship, she was invited by an aide to go for a midday swim in the White House pool, where the handsome, 45-year-old president swam daily to ease chronic back pain. JFK slid into the pool and floated up to her.
Lightning had struck. Later that day, Mimi was invited by Dave Powers, the president's "first friend" and later the longtime curator of the Kennedy Library in Boston, to an after-work party. When she arrived at the White House residence, Powers virginia beach hotels and two other young female staffers were waiting. Powers poured, and frequently refilled, her glass with daiquiris until the commander-in-chief arrived.
virginia beach hotels "The fact that I was being desired by the most famous and powerful man in America only amplified my feelings to the point where resistance was out of the question. That's why I didn't say no to the president. It's the best answer I can give."
Kennedy could be playful virginia beach hotels and tried to extract naughty things that she did as a schoolgirl. "What did all you girls do locked up in that boarding school?" he would ask. Ironically, she had attended Miss Porter's, Jacqueline's alma mater.
But there was also distance. "There was always a layer of reserve between us, which may explain why we never kissed," she writes. virginia beach hotels "The wide gulf between us - the age, the power, the experience - guaranteed that our affair wouldn't evolve into anything more serious."
On a trip to Yosemite National Park, she noticed a pattern, which she called "the Waiting Game." She was told to stay put in her hotel until the president called for her, which meant sitting around for hours. Often, he would only call her at night
He promised that he would call under the pseudonym "Michael Carter." And then he played virginia beach hotels a recording of Nat King Cole's "Autumn Leaves." He made her concentrate virginia beach hotels on the lyrics, "But I miss you most of all, my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall."
He asked her dozens of questions: What courses was she taking? Did she like the teachers? Were the girls interesting? What did she have for dinner? He then invited her to Washington when Jackie was away.
On one visit, Kennedy was embroiled in one of the most defining moments of his presidency, the Cuban Missile Crisis. For 13 days in October 1962, the United States and the Soviets virginia beach hotels were at a nuclear standoff.
"I was sitting next to him in the living room when a handful of yellow capsules virginia beach hotels - most likely amyl nitrate, commonly known as poppers - was offered up by one of the guests. The president asked me if I wanted to try the drug, which stimulated the heart but also purportedly enhanced sex. I said no, but he just went ahead and popped the capsule and held it under my nose."
"He had been guilty of an even more callous and unforgivable episode virginia beach hotels at the White House" during a noon swim. Powers had rolled up his pants to cool his feet in the water. "The president swam over and whispered in my ear. 'Mr. Powers looks a little tense,' he said. 'Would you take care of it?'
"It was a dare, but I knew exactly what he meant. This was a challenge to give Dave Powers oral sex. I don't think the president thought I'd do it, but I'm ashamed to say that I did . . . The president silently watched."
Another time, she writes, while back at Wheaton, she thought she was pregnant and told Powers. Obviously, this could explode into scandal. Abortion was illegal virginia beach hotels in 1962. Powers put her in touch with a woman who had a contact for a doctor. In the end, it was a false alarm.
"He invited me upstairs, and we sat outside on the balcony in the soft summer evening air. There was a stack of condolence letters on the floor next to his chair, and he picked each one up and read it aloud to me. Some were from friends and others from strangers, but they were all heartfelt and deeply virginia beach hotels moving. Occasionally, tears rolling down his cheeks, he would write something on one of the letters, probably notes for a reply. But mostly he just read them and cried. virginia beach hotels I did, too."
About to be married to her college sweetheart, Tony Fahnestock, she met Kennedy for the last time at The Carlyle hotel in Manhattan on Nov. 15, 1963, just seven days before his assassination in Dallas.
"He took me in his arms for a long embrace and said, 'I wish you were coming with me to Texas.' And then he added, 'I'll call you when I get back.' I was overcome with sudden sadness. 'Remember, Mr. President, I'm getting virginia beach hotels married.'
Comment: One wonders virginia beach hotels if any of this is true. The constant efforts of Right Wingers to smear the name of JFK could include inducing a "good Christian" to write such a book. After all, we notice that the "good Christians" in the U.S. think nothing of lying, virginia beach hotels stealing, cheating and killing for Jesus.
There are a lot of "powerful" men who would like us all to think so. The vows of marriage don't apply to them. They are too important to worry about such pedestrian limitations on personal conduct. The public should not expect them to adhere to "normal" moral principles.
I think it's an indicator of sexual abuse in these families. virginia beach hotels That's something a lot of "powerful" men DON'T want us to think is so. But a lot of people who've seen this in person believe it to be very widespread. It's a kind of test. If you can be abused and recover from it, you're virginia beach hotels worthy; you're one of us. If you go off crying or complaining you're "too weak."
virginia beach hotels She did not "come out" with this ... it was due initially to official documents released from the Kennedy library. She was an unnamed intern. Then someone wrote a book listed affairs, virginia beach hotels and a reporter managed to get her first name from a source of that book. Eventually virginia beach hotels they figured out which Mimi it was, and showed up at her office. She wasn't a Christian either ... she was working at the church, but had never been religious. I just read the book, and WOW, does it ever sound genuine. She talks about how the affair destroyed her marriage, and how holding the secret almost destroyed her.
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