A PSYCHOLOGY TODAY OPINION PIECE ABOUT MIMI - and MISS PORTER'S ALUMNI

PSYCHOLOGY TODAY : LAURA BETZIG on MIMI ALFORD and HER AFFAIR

There were pleasure trips with the President.  How does Miss Porter's School figure in to all of this.  How did the school "finish" girls?

Excerpt:  In the summer of 1962, Mimi Alford - a graduate of Miss Porter's Finishing School, admirer of fellow Miss Porter's graduate Jackie Bouvier Kennedy, protegee of fellow Miss Porter's graduate and the First Lady's Press Secretary, Tish Baldridge, and coworker of fellow Miss Porter's graduate Priscilla "Fiddle" Wear - started her job as an White House intern. Four days later, president aide and "first Friend: Dave Powers called her on the phone and invited her fro a swim.

STAZYSTKA MIMI ALFORD

CAMELOT'S COURT by ROBERT DALLEK OUTED MIMI ALFORD

In Interviews after this book was published, author Dalleck, a respected researcher and historian, says that J.F.K had a big sense of entitlement and was out of control in his personal life but had a great ability to compartmentalize.

A bit on the Kennedy Presidency, for those of you who were not there. Kennedy called his administration "The New Frontier" and gave people hope that the United States would make great progress as a nation. He represented the American Dream because though his family was rich and privileged, they were also Irish and Catholic and not of the White Anglo Saxon elite that pretty much ran the United States. His religion, because he was not of the White Anglo Saxon Protestant elite, was a potential obstacle to his election.

 The Kennedy family, in the opinion of Dalleck, is the real American dynasty, more so than say, the Bushes. That's because they have great privilege they have also suffered the most tragedies - deaths - and so for all the high highs of their fame and fortune they have experienced low lows. 

President Kennedy grew in his role as President. He wanted the best advice but knew in the end decisions were his. He had trusted his advisor when invading Cuba (then a feared Communist country as they all were) and newly taken over by Fidel Castro, who threw the Mafia who owned casinos and clubs out. Called "The Bay of Pigs" disaster, it was a huge mistake, which he knew then and which history tells us to be true.

It was in this book that Mimi Alford was outed, though Dallek did not name her.  Other journalists did the work to find out who she was.  Like others who have had their privacy invaded and their story told from other people's perspective or opinions, Mimi was provoked to speak her own truths.

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MIMI ALFORD EXPLAINS WHY IT WASN'T RAPE

From Mimi's Books (listened to audio)

"I always get the same reactions about President Kennedy's behavior.  At first the response comes in the form of dismay, at the President's sinister intentions. "You  must see it Mimi, they say.  You were set up.  He was a predator." Then when I don't agree, the response changes into disappointment in me. Others take the argument a step further. They are not shy about bringing up the R word - rape - to describe what happened to me.  I don't see it that way.  That night in the midst of my shock and confusion, I felt for the first time the thrill of being desired and the fact that I was being desired by the most famous and powerful man in American only amplified my feelings to the point where resistance was out of the question.  That's why I didn't say no to the President.  It's the best answer I can give.|"


A note from Missy :  Mimi also says that while it was consensual sex, it was not romantic.  She doesn't remember ever kissing. Also the President asked her to give oral sex to his right hand man while he watched, which she agreed to but when he asked a second time, this time for her to do so with his youngest brother, she got angry and refused.