I don't think I'll be reading Mimi Beardsley Alford's life story, coming to a bookstore near you soon. Nothing against the woman. She may be a lovely woman these days. Mimi is a 66 year old retired church administrator from New York who had an affair with President Kennedy while she was a college intern in the White House. She is coming out of her affair-closet after sitting in it quietly for 40 years. Writing a book about boinking a married man at work, and no doubt getting paid handsomely for it. What the heck. She is retired. The guy she married and divorced is now dead. The married man who swooned over her to get her into bed is too. Mimi smells a cha-ching and is going for it.
I don't think I'll be laying out money to hear Mimi's story. A young willing woman who didn't mind having a fling with a guy whose wife was upstairs. A philandering kinda guy, who happened to hold public office, noticed her, tested out her willingness, and took her up on it. The End.
Wouldn't spend money to read Monica's story either.
I had several tours of duty as an intern. One in high school at a state capitol. One in college in Washington, DC. Another in grad school. In those beautifully powerful buildings with ornate halls and people whose jobs I really wanted, I tried to dress, walk, talk and work as professionally as a kid could. Every now and then I felt like a policy maker. Helping all kinds of important people shape the future. So what that I was writing letters to angry citizens or taking notes at hearings. Letters and notes were part of the machine, I figured. It was a chance to learn stuff, make impressions, build a resume. Don't care to pay women who took the same kinds of opportunities at the same stage in life to boink the boss.
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