Former intern to tell of affair with John F. Kennedy

[bijou]

Mimi Beardsley Alford, now 66, a retired New York church administrator, will receive an advance believed to be worth nearly $1 million (£630,000) from Random House, the publisher, for her memoir.

Mrs Alford, who is breaking her silence after more than 45 years, maintained the secret about her relationship with the womanising president until a new Kennedy biography was published in 2003.

That book revealed that he began an affair in June 1962 with Mimi Beardsley. The 19-year-old student working in the White House press office was described as a "tall, slender, beautiful" by Kennedy's biographer, Robert Dallek.

Miss Beardsley was tracked down and identified as a divorcee working for a Manhattan presbyterian church who had told nobody about the affair.

She gave a brief statement confirming a "sexual relationship" had lasted until his assassination in November 1963, but has said nothing more since then.

In an added twist, the young Miss Beardsley was educated at the same exclusive private academy earlier attended by Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, who was to become the president's wife.

Mrs Alford - she has since re-married - is now working on a memoir entitled Once Upon a Secret about hiding such an explosive episode in her past for most of her life, the New York Times reported.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5374413/Former-intern-to-tell-of-affair-with-John-F.-Kennedy.html

[Lord Undies]

I guess I was wrong about Clinton.  He wasn't our first Teenage President.  Oh well.  I doesn't make a difference.  All democrats have the sexual morals of a horny amoeba.

[JohnnyReb]

I guess I was wrong about Clinton.  He wasn't our first Teenage President.  Oh well.  I doesn't make a difference.  All democrats have the sexual morals of a horny amoeba.

FDR, Kennedy, Johnson, Clinton....hmmmmm....2/3's of the last few dim presidents have been sex maniacs.....but as far as I know, at least they didn't drown any.

[jtyangel]

FDR, Kennedy, Johnson, Clinton....hmmmmm....2/3's of the last few dim presidents have been sex maniacs.....but as far as I know, at least they didn't drown any.

Happened to quite a few conservatives too. Life is messy and people(conservative and liberal) are fallen and tainted.

I don't know how this is news. Most at least suspected that JFK(and many other powerful men and public figures during that time) were philanders and womanizers. A huge gate of sexual openess was swung wide open during that time, along with decreasing modesty in dress, it's not surprising that people took advantage of that opportunity before they could fully see the consequences of it all.

[DixieBelle]

http://encarta.msn.com/media_461518951_761564341_-1_1/jfk_and_young_clinton.html
Heh.