Ham Murabi
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JFK and 19-year-old White House intern Mimi Alford -- a truly shameful revelation
This is a story about a young and impressionable female intern in the White House -- a virgin, with girlish dreams about princes and presidents. Young girls are trained to marry the wealthiest or most powerful man on the block. When the prince comes calling, few young girls can resist this opportunity.
However, they are not the ones who are abusing power and betraying both youth and a wife. That would be the prince or president himself.
And no, I am not talking about Monica Lewinsky in the Clinton White House.
I am talking, sadly, about the recent revelations by a former intern, Mimi Alford, in the Kennedy White House.
Alford is no Marilyn Monroe, who was reputedly the mistress of both John F. and Robert F. Kennedy. Nor, is she Judith Exner, who was reputedly the "Mata Hari" connection between President Kennedy and Sam Giancana, a Mafia operative. These were adult women who chose to use their sexuality to further their careers.
Alford is not in this category. Like then-First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Alford attended the prestigious Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut. She was "wife" material--but President Kennedy treated her in a shameful and inappropriate fashion.
In television interviews, a much older Mimi Alpert now admits that she was not "guilty" about being "overpowered" by a man 25 years her senior. True, he was married, but he was "handsome," and the "president" and she describes him as having expertly maneuvered her into bed. Yes, she could have screamed out but then what?
No access to power, no feeling "special," agonizing embarrassment, no internship.
Girls and women make just such devil's bargains every day. They do not care about the humiliated or left-in-the-dark wife nor do they care about how little they really matter to the Great Man.
In reading Alford's revelations, perhaps the saddest incident concerns the president turning to Alford, a disposable stranger, for sexual comfort after the death of his infant son.
No, he did not break the law.
In fact, it's important to remember that neither Ms. Alford nor Ms. Lewinsky ever alleged sexual harassment or rape. But both young women were manipulated into feeling very, very "special," even important. Neither dared say "no" to their commander-in-chief.
His wife had suffered an emergency Caesarean and the infant boy died two days later. Instead of remaining at his grieving wife's side to comfort her, he turned to his nubile intern for...escape.
Well, maybe an even sadder incident is when Kennedy pimped out Mimi to his aide and friend, Dave Powers--Kennedy watched. (Alford now admits she is ashamed that she went along with this).
JFK and 19-year-old White House intern Mimi Alford -- a truly shameful revelation
This is a story about a young and impressionable female intern in the White House -- a virgin, with girlish dreams about princes and presidents. Young girls are trained to marry the wealthiest or most powerful man on the block. When the prince comes calling, few young girls can resist this opportunity.
However, they are not the ones who are abusing power and betraying both youth and a wife. That would be the prince or president himself.
And no, I am not talking about Monica Lewinsky in the Clinton White House.
I am talking, sadly, about the recent revelations by a former intern, Mimi Alford, in the Kennedy White House.
Alford is no Marilyn Monroe, who was reputedly the mistress of both John F. and Robert F. Kennedy. Nor, is she Judith Exner, who was reputedly the "Mata Hari" connection between President Kennedy and Sam Giancana, a Mafia operative. These were adult women who chose to use their sexuality to further their careers.
Alford is not in this category. Like then-First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Alford attended the prestigious Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut. She was "wife" material--but President Kennedy treated her in a shameful and inappropriate fashion.
In television interviews, a much older Mimi Alpert now admits that she was not "guilty" about being "overpowered" by a man 25 years her senior. True, he was married, but he was "handsome," and the "president" and she describes him as having expertly maneuvered her into bed. Yes, she could have screamed out but then what?
No access to power, no feeling "special," agonizing embarrassment, no internship.
Girls and women make just such devil's bargains every day. They do not care about the humiliated or left-in-the-dark wife nor do they care about how little they really matter to the Great Man.
In reading Alford's revelations, perhaps the saddest incident concerns the president turning to Alford, a disposable stranger, for sexual comfort after the death of his infant son.
No, he did not break the law.
In fact, it's important to remember that neither Ms. Alford nor Ms. Lewinsky ever alleged sexual harassment or rape. But both young women were manipulated into feeling very, very "special," even important. Neither dared say "no" to their commander-in-chief.
His wife had suffered an emergency Caesarean and the infant boy died two days later. Instead of remaining at his grieving wife's side to comfort her, he turned to his nubile intern for...escape.
Well, maybe an even sadder incident is when Kennedy pimped out Mimi to his aide and friend, Dave Powers--Kennedy watched. (Alford now admits she is ashamed that she went along with this).
