White House intern discusses 18-month affair with JFKBy Douglas Stanglin, USA TODAYUpdated 16h 26m ago The New York Post this weekend reports on the tell-all book Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath that will be published by Random House on Wednesday. The Post says it bought a copy of the book, by Mimi Alford, at a Manhattan bookstore. Alford, who was a 19-year-old debutante working at the White House for the summer, was known at the time as Mimi Beardsley. She did not divulge the secret, even to her family, until her name was revealed eight years ago as part of a Kennedy biography. Alford's agent, Mark Reiter, told The New York Times in 2009 that Alford, now 68, was stunned when the affair came to light in the tabloids and decided to write her own account to "take control" of the story. Alford will be interviewed on NBC's Rock Center on Wednesday night. In an excerpt of her interview with Meredith Viera on Rock centerwith Brian Williams, Alford says she was overpowered by the president during their first sexual encounter.
"i think overpowerd in the sense that he was the president, he was unbelivably handsome, 45 years old," she says. "Not overpowered physically ...
I really think I was willing to do it."
In an excerpt from that interview with Meredith Vieira, Alford says she felt overpowered by the president during their first sexual encounter. "I think overpowered in the sense that he was the president," she tells Vieira. "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." "I wouldn't describe what happened that night as making love, but I wouldn't call it nonconsensual either," she writes in the book, according to Rock Center. According to the account published by the Post, the affair began after she was invited by an aide to go for a midday swim in the White House pool and the president was there. He invited her to evening drinks. Among some of the points in the book:
Their last meeting came seven days before his assassination in 1963. She told him that she was getting married. Here, according to the Post, is how Alford describes the scene in her book:
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