JFK'S WOMEN : THE SCANDALS REVEALED : MISTRESS MANIFESTO FILM REVIEW

JFK's WOMEN is a documentary film that's currently available, and I watched it wondering if any of the Presidential Mistresses I've been featuring on this blog were included.

I guess I've read so very many books about this President, his wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, Marilyn Monroe, and other people associated with them - some of whom you can find in my archives here at Mistress Manifesto.

I dedicated a month to Marilyn Monroe, the actress, who was a Mistress, but not to John F. Kennedy nor his brother Robert.  I consider any sexuality or romance she possibly had with either men to be affairs.

You will find Judith Campbell Exner, last months Presidential Mistress of the month on this film.  Testimonials are that she was well known by high ranking mobsters and paid $200 to seduce Jack, exploiting his out of control sex addiction, so that there would be a connection between Kennedy and the mob.  I still consider this to be a controversial statement.  It makes Judith into a prostitute.

You WILL NOT FIND MIMI ALFORD in this film

You will also NOT FIND NEXT MONTHS MISTRESS OF THE MONTH in this film.

Missy


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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.

MIMI ALFORD : BEFORE MONICA LEWINSKY THERE WAS J.F.K. INTERN IN THE WHITE HOUSE

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MARION FAY "MIMI" BEARDSLEY - ALFORD

(1943 - living)

Continuing on from last month's work on President John F. Kennedy's Mistress, Judith Campbell Exner, remember that a person can have more than one Mistress at a time and only the Classic Mistress expects and gets full financial support from her man.  Sometimes what a man gives his Mistress is a job - a career boost.  In the case of Mimi Beardsley, first came an opportunity as a student at Miss Porter's School, who worked on her prep school newspaper, to interview the President.  She had wanted to interview First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy for the paper because Jackie was the most famous alumni of Miss Porter's Finishing School, a school for the well bred elite young women who were expected to partner with powerful and important men.  A year later, a call from the White House offering Mimi an Internship to work in the White House Press office came and of course she wanted that career opportunity.  She worked there for stretches during 1962 and 1963. 

Within days of arrival to Washington D.C., Mimi lost her virginity to the President, in his wife First Lady Jackie's White House bedroom yet, while  she was out of town. The relationship between J.F.K. and Mimi Beardsley lasted eighteen months, ending approximately two weeks before the President and Mrs. Kennedy went to Dallas, Texas, and he had his meeting with fate - his assassination.  

Fifty years of keeping a secret resulted in the book, Once Upon a Secret, by Mimi Alford, Alford being her married name, which I read cover to cover and found to be of interest to myself and my readers.  One of the best things about this book was that, though as an old woman Mimi realizes the situation could be construed negatively, she honestly remembers it as she experienced it as a young woman of 19-20 years old, without guilt then or regret now. She was having an adventure and felt desired by the most powerful man in the world.

I will say this.  So many young women wonder how and when they will loose their virginity and too many loose it while drunk or high or to someone forgettable and regret it later.  At the same time there were things that happened, things that I'll get to in another post, that I personally think indicate the President was not up to something good.

According to Mimi, who did extensive interviews at the publication of her book in February 2012, including a long one with journalist Meredith Veiera,  which I watched,  J.F.K was fun, a sensualist, boyish and silly, a man who had a collection of little rubber ducks in his bath tub that they played with together. I found that interesting because through the years I've read a lot of books that include J.F.K. and other women seemed to think he was too fast and selfish sexually.

Mimi sounds like other Other Women who had affairs with J.F.K.  She had no idea that he had other women and though she was the Only Other Woman in his life.  She was too young to wonder at some of the things that might make more experienced women - at least in Western culture - question such as the fact that they never kissed each other.  Dave Powers, J.F.K.'s right hand man, had been the one assigned to call her and invite her for an afternoon swim with the President.  She got there and relaxed when she saw she was in the pool with other employees.  Later Powers called to invite her to a cocktail party where again there were other employees.  But then the President offered her a tour of the White House and before it was over they had made love.  She gathered up her underwear and dress and put them on.  He offered her something to eat there in the kitchen.  He had a car take her home.  This affair beats what happened between President William Jefferson Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.

Not only was she having sex with Kennedy in the White House, she was traveling with him.  She went on State Department trips such as to the Bahamas.  She went on personal trips with him, such as visiting Palm Springs and staying at singer Bing Crosby's estate there.  There was shopping in New York.  Perhaps the most unsettling thing is that she had planned to go to Dallas when he went, but the First Lady decided she would accompany her husband instead.

Those who think of the President as having been predatory, having selected her out and called upon her, perhaps with this ambition of a sexual relationship with a woman who at 19 years old was years younger, but still legal, perhaps as a rapist, will be disappointed because Mimi didn't think of it that way at the time, nor does she remember it that way.

She wrote that she had been swept away and could not change that fact. 
She also continued to date and soon married a man who she would stay married to for 26 years. This first husband, Tony, was with her when news of the assassination came and she cried.  Then she told him she had an affair with the President.  Apparently that did not stop him from marrying her, to his credit.

She never discussed her relationship with her parents back in the day, but why would she?  (I don't know anyone who wants to hear intimate details from their parents or to share theirs! And this was back in the early 1960's! )  And so, this month, through her book, we'll learn more than they knew!

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THIS "PRINCE OF THE REALM" COULD GET AWAY WITH EXTRAMARITAL ACTIVITIES

Reading around Mimi Alford, I learned that a writer working for the New York Daily News, an investigative journalist, had found out the name of President John F. Kennedy's young conquest. The paper ran three days of columns on the "Kennedy's Monica" then.  Author Robert Dallek called it "off the wall" and "over the top" reportage. Dallek wrote about it in his book, "An Unfinished Life."

 Mimi decided it was time to write her own book.