New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Former U.S. President Bill Clinton was not the first U.S. leader to have an affair with an intern at the White House. His predecessor, John F. Kennedy, had an 18-month liaison with a 19-year-old White House press office intern, according to a tell-all memoir.
Mimi Alford’s book, “Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath,” claims that Kennedy deflowered her in the First Lady’s bedroom at the White House when he made an advance on her during an after-work party in the summer of 1962. Kennedy, who was 45 at the time, lured Alford to Mrs. Kennedy’s room in the guise of a tour.
Alford, now a 69-year-old grandmother, says in the book that she did not resist Kennedy and carried on their secret affair because her admiration of the most powerful man in the U.S. drove her feelings for him.
Other excerpts of the book, which publisher Random House is scheduled to release Wednesday, were revealed by the New York Post on Monday. Alford claims that they met on the fourth day of her internship and the President invited her for a tour of the White House the following day.
It further relates that Kennedy told Alford to perform a lewd act on his friend while he watched and that he gave her party drug amyl nitrate “to enhance their sex life.”
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