Jesse Walker | May 15, 2003
Ordinarily, I wouldn't bother to blog the fact that the 19-year-old intern JFK reportedly screwed has come forward to confirm Robert Dallek's tale of their affair. But how can I resist linking to a story whose headline declares, "I was JFK's lover"?
Besides: By raising the topic of presidents behaving badly, I finally have an excuse to cite this hilarious little essay on Zachary Taylor.
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The Taylor thing was a hoot. I got about halfway through it--to
the secret clubhouse in the sub-basement--before I realized it
wasn't serious.
National Lampoon ran an essay a long time ago about a fictional
Southern senator who was ordered chained to his desk by his
colleagues after he molested a six-year-old March of Dimes poster
girl. "Hell, I thought she was eighteen!"
Watch for "I Slept With JFK" by Jackie Onassis, coming soon to a bookstore near you...
... and don't forget the chronicle of Prez/ General Taylor's
love jaunts in the timeless "muskrat love"
happy friday,
drf
So JFK was a whore and she was just one of many? Who really cares and what is so special about her? all she did was sleep with a married man. big deal!!!!
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