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Dumb and dummer
Pataskala, OH
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By Jessica Hopper Rock Center Mimi Alford is speaking publicly for the first time about the secret she’s held for half a century. Alford claims that she had an 18-month-long affair with President John F. Kennedy when she was a White House intern. “I think when you keep a secret and when you keep silent about something, you do it because you think it’s keeping you safe, but in fact, it’s deadly,” Alford told Meredith Vieira in an exclusive interview scheduled to air Wednesday on NBC’s Rock Center with Brian Williams. In 1962, a 19-year-old Alford spent her summer in Washington, D.C., interning in the White House press office. She had just finished her freshman year at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. Four days into her internship, Alford claims that JFK aide, David Powers, invited her to go swimming in the White House pool. Alford was surprised when the 45-year-old president joined her and two others in the pool. “It really didn’t seem unnatural, just because everybody was friendly and I went back to work afterwards,” Alford said.“No one said anything.” Later that day, she says she received another call to visit the private floors of the White House. The naïve teenager didn’t question the president’s intentions when he asked to take her on a tour of the White House. “The president came over to me and asked me if I’d like to take a tour of the second floor of the White House and see some of the rooms that had been redecorated. The last room that we went into was the bedroom and we walked into the bedroom and it was a beautiful room…I learned later that it was Mrs. Kennedy’s bedroom,” Alford said. Alford says that she lost her virginity to the president in the first lady’s bedroom. In her soon to be released memoir, Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and its Aftermath, Alford described her first sexual encounter with the president writing that,“I wouldn’t describe what happened that night as making love, but I wouldn’t call it nonconsensual either.” When asked if she felt overpowered by Kennedy, she told Vieira,“I think overpowered in the sense that he was the president. He was this unbelievably handsome man, 45 years old, overpowered in the fact that he had chosen me…and taken me on this tour. That's what I mean by being overpowered by the whole situation. Not overpowered physically that someone had grabbed me and done this to me and made me do something that I wasn't really willing to do, because I really think I was willing to do it.” Alford emphasized to Vieira that if she had told the president no, he would have stopped. The affair continued for 18 months even after Alford returned to college. “I think I was under the aura of, I had just a little bit of second thoughts, not enough to keep me from going back,” said Alford of the affair’s beginnings. While interning, Alford would sometimes travel with the president. When she returned to college, he’d have arrangements made for her to come visit him. Sometimes, a limo would pick her up and take her to the airport to fly to Washington, D.C. Alford remembers doing homework in the limo as she headed to meet the president. “I should have felt guilty. He was married to Mrs. Kennedy, but I didn’t at the time feel guilty,” Alford said. Looking back now, Alford says that she realizes she was at Kennedy’s beck and call. “I think that’s probably partly what makes me feel sad when I look back. It made me feel very special,” Alford said. Alford described Kennedy as “boyish” and “shy” around her.
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Dumb and dummer
Pataskala, OH
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“I’m not going to say he loved me, but I think he did like me a lot. He cared about me,” she said.“Just the way he was, the way he smiled with me. I feel that he did. I feel that he actually cared about me.” When pressed by Vieira about whether she really believes that Kennedy had genuine feelings for her or if believing that is simply a way for her to comfort herself all these years later, Alford said,“I think it’s a little bit of both.” Now 68, Alford’s soon to be released memoir shares explicit details about the affair, including a claim that the president encouraged her to have sexual relations with at least one other person at the White House. Alford says that keeping the affair secret was more damaging than the affair itself. She said that it affected her relationships and contributed to the demise of her first marriage. Alford was first publicly outed in 2003 when historian Robert Dallek wrote 37 words about an unnamed intern who had an affair with Kennedy in his biography of Kennedy called An Unfinished Life. The New York Daily News identified her and Alford issued a simple written statement confirming her secret relationship. She faded into obscurity, but said that the secret eventually became too much to hold inside. “It’s not so much that I feel that I’m exposing myself, it’s that I’m really unburdening myself, it was a very difficult thing for me to do,” Alford said.“In fact, most mornings when I woke up I thought I don’t want to get up and write this book, I want to hide under the covers.” Editor’s Note: Meredith Vieira’s exclusive interview with Mimi Alford airs Wednesday, Feb. 8 at 9pm/8c on NBC’s Rock Center with Brian Williams. Vieira talks to Alford at length in the author's first candid interview. http://rockcenter.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02...
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Jenny
Bellefontaine, OH
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Just another wh*re seeking stardom. I won't be buying one of her books, for sure. She should protect Caroline and shut her big mouth. That lady, Caroline, has enough burdens. I wish much strenghth for her.
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majority
Bellefontaine, OH
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no new news here. How many women did he cheat on his wife with? the same question will be asked of Bill Clinton. Is Obamaa doing this as we speak? i bet she is white and very young.
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Satan
Columbus, OH
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budman
Butler, OH
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he didnt steal it she was willing she said
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“Just thinking”
Since: Jul 09
Location hidden
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How many years ago was that? Just more sex allegations to keep the public occupied while big messes and rotten deals are made in Washington that the public is not told about until it's way too late.
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The Predatory President
Fredericksburg, OH
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Now days they might call this rape "Never, even in my most florid imaginings, did I think that my first experience of sex would be with an older man - let alone someone of my parents’ generation." "Yet, on my fourth day as a summer intern in the White House press office, I lost my virginity to President John F Kennedy." "The experience was so wholly unexpected and surreal that, as I was driven home in a limo afterwards, I wondered if it had all been a dream." "As a sheltered and naive 19-year-old, I just couldn't make sense of what had just happened." "For one thing, I’d always imagined that my first time would be with the man I loved on my wedding night." Extra Extra, read all about it right here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-20994...
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“I invented Obamacare”
Since: Nov 11
Mormon
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Our founding fathers had some wild times with their virgin slaves too. Why is it that every time a right wing nut job is trying to make a point they get their information from the Daily Mail? The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper, you know, like the National Enquirer, Star and all of the other useless rags. I mean really, as soon as I see the Daily Mail is your source I know you're a dumbass.
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The Predatory President
Fredericksburg, OH
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Why is it whenever a liberal can't defend their position, they attack the messenger? So, here you go Olivier, sources right out your liberal ass: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/46315055/ns/tod... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/10/mimi...
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Barney Frank
Stevensville, MI
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Olivier played the sheep in his school play "Brokeback Mutton." His performance wasn't all that Baaaaad either.
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“I WAS NOBAMA B4 IT WUZ COOL!”
Since: Sep 11
Bellefontaine, OH
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Flip Flopper wrote: Our founding fathers had some wild times with their virgin slaves too. Why is it that every time a right wing nut job is trying to make a point they get their information from the Daily Mail? The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper, you know, like the National Enquirer, Star and all of the other useless rags. I mean really, as soon as I see the Daily Mail is your source I know you're a dumbass. "The right to petition the government for a redress of greviance."
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“Just thinking”
Since: Jul 09
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DON W SOUTH wrote: <quoted text> "The right to petition the government for a redress of greviance." You never did answer to the Patriot Act superceding citizens' right to redress. I posted all the info in detail.
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Jenny
Bellefontaine, OH
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This gal that claims she had her ticket punched by JFK was no Marilyn Monroe, nor Jackie Bouvierre. didn't age gracefully, either
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“I invented Obamacare”
Since: Nov 11
Mormon
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The Predatory President wrote: Why is it whenever a liberal can't defend their position, they attack the messenger? So, here you go Olivier, sources right out your liberal ass: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/46315055/ns/tod... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/10/mimi... Quit using the Daily Mail as a source and I'll quit calling you a dumbass. I mean it it won't change the fact that you still are a dumbass but I'll quit calling you one.
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The Predatory President
Fredericksburg, OH
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I don't care what you call me, you are a phony liberal. You have no facts to base your insults on. You are on here 24x7 never going to work. Never took the time to get a skill. Forever living off the backs of the hard working taxpayer. Like scum at the bottom of the pond of life, only smelling much worse.
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“I WAS NOBAMA B4 IT WUZ COOL!”
Since: Sep 11
Bellefontaine, OH
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FleetGhost wrote: <quoted text> You never did answer to the Patriot Act superceding citizens' right to redress. I posted all the info in detail. That would be unconstitutional. Has anyone taken it to court? Good job 4 u. As to my post, it was directed to F/F who has never acknowleged that the Catholic bigwigs have a constitutional right to challenge the govenment concerning OBAMA "boo-buu" on the health care/BC/Abortion issue. So, until he does, I will be posting on his posts, the words of The First Amendment, which guarantee all of us, including him, the right "to petition the government for a redress of grievances!"
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sure ya do
Sidney, OH
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Flip Flopper wrote: <quoted text> Quit using the Daily Mail as a source and I'll quit calling you a dumbass. I mean it it won't change the fact that you still are a dumbass but I'll quit calling you one. But it's ok for the main stream media to carry stories about Herman Cain's sexual harassments if they even occurred. Your just another liberal hypocrite.
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“I invented Obamacare”
Since: Nov 11
Mormon
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The Predatory President wrote: I don't care what you call me, you are a phony liberal. You have no facts to base your insults on. You are on here 24x7 never going to work. Never took the time to get a skill. Forever living off the backs of the hard working taxpayer. Like scum at the bottom of the pond of life, only smelling much worse. I don't think I'm the one on here 24/7 that would be you and your intellectually challenged ways. If you're to put up information from tabloids why not use American tabloids? Are you anti American? Skills you say? What skills do you have? Going through tabloids and finding any anti American propaganda that you can and presenting it as being truth? Typical Republitard, when someone presents a different perspective they pull out the welfare card..Do you know how stupid that makes you look? As far as my skills go I'll put them against yours any day. My skills are way beyond your capabilities.
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“I WAS NOBAMA B4 IT WUZ COOL!”
Since: Sep 11
Bellefontaine, OH
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Flip Flopper wrote: <quoted text>I don't think I'm the one on here 24/7 that would be you and your intellectually challenged ways. If you're to put up information from tabloids why not use American tabloids? Are you anti American? Skills you say? What skills do you have? Going through tabloids and finding any anti American propaganda that you can and presenting it as being truth? Typical Republitard, when someone presents a different perspective they pull out the welfare card..Do you know how stupid that makes you look? As far as my skills go I'll put them against yours any day. My skills are way beyond your capabilities. DON W SOUTH wrote: If you are sooo smart, why didn't you know that the Catholic big-wigs, have <quoted text> "The right to petition the government for a redress of greviances?"
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