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JFK and the "lady of some note in Europe."
Chris — my son, the reader of presidential biographies — texts me another passage from "President Kennedy: Profile of Power" (commission earned):
... set loose on a wild, untamed continent
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I seem to recall the Mayflower Madam had a Biddle in her name. A longstanding blue blood tradition, pimping for the Aristos. Poor Charles and Andrew, rules changed and no one told them.
I hope the “lady of some note” was worth all that trouble. Brigette Bardot, perhaps?
…American college educated white women find Trump repulsive for his womanizing but write their own bodice ripper paperback where they would have been under/over/on all fours with Kennedy at a private villa on Lake Como back in the day…
My memory of the actual Camelot was that Guinevere was the one fucking around, not Arthur.
A dedicated memorial there honors Kennedy’s 1963 visit. It features a famous inscription: "When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations."
A lady of some note. why keep the name a secret? Its been 60 years.
Its a good thing for JFK that he was a Democrat. Had Nixon behaved like that, you can sure the press would've forgotten about their "rule" of "Whats done in private stays private".
We saw that with Epstein Island. The MSM didn't care about the rich and powerful going to Epstein Island for statuatory rape and other pleasures until they thought they could tie Trump to Epstein. Then it became a story.
“why keep the name a secret? It’s been 60 years.”
The book was written 33 years ago.
remember!
it's NEATO when a democrat has sexual affairs/assaults/etc..
it's EVIL when a republican does it!
"They were trying to get an American out of their home".
That one sentence is astounding.
Jack was a horndog but it was all managed as efficiently and neatly as possible. Nobody suffered a miserable death by asphyxiation in a submerged Oldsmobile.
Kennedy was a true king. He could use government resources to pressure Americans out of their homes for his sexual activities. It interests me that I have never heard this story before even though this book is old. It’s been kept out of the media well.
“it's NEATO when a democrat has sexual affairs/assaults/etc..
it's EVIL when a republican does it!”
And vice versa. I think we can all agree morality is subordinate to political exigency.
Leaning into a prelude? Adjacent to a sexual revolution.
Personally I think there’s no more poetic name than “Stormy Daniels” but I’ve been told I have the tastes of a prole.
The elites in EVERY society act like entitled assholes, so what's the big deal? As long as they do a decent job, and don't embarrass their country with scandals that's just gonna be a thing. That's DJT's problem. He can't keep his private life private. And yes, there is a double standard for the Lefties. That's just how it is.
If Rusk actually disapproved, why did he ask about it afterwards? And why did he (presumably) tell the author he had.
How much of politicians' sexual conquests is just a flex they like to show off.
achtually it was written 33 years ago.
Goddamn you people are stupid. Step 1 - dumbest interpetation possible Step 2 - Gotcha!
"Wonderful", Kennedy said, "Absolutely wonderful."
Angie Dickinson said sex with Kennedy was "the greatest thirty seconds of my life".
As I recall, Democrats still celebrate and adore that one director who is still banished to Europe for having sex with 12 year old Kinsky. Apparently that's a-ok over there, and for our leftist "betters" who never, ever criticize it. But McCain's alleged affair was enough to give them the vapors... in the same election after Obama beat out old Hillary Clinton and nary a word of disdain for Bill's raping women was uttered by a leftist. Democrats run for the fainting couches over Trump all while they demand we vote for Platner and excuse Harvey Weinstein.
Gina Lollafalana maybe? 🤔
So nobody thinks it was Angela Merkel?
“Ask not what your president can do for you, ask what you can do for your president.”
—— from the anals of PT 69
There were rumors about Sophia Loren
Abbondanza!
..there was that giancana moll but she’s not exactly ‘of some note’. If you’re clearing out a villa it should be for a celebrity, a solid eight or better. Anita Ekberg?
"As I recall, Democrats still celebrate and adore that one director who is still banished to Europe for having sex with 12 year old Kinsky."
Kinski was 15 when she started dating Polanski. It was out in the open. The Polanski problem was the alleged drugging and raping of a 13 year-old in 1977 at a photo shoot.
He pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor in exchange for the rape charge to be dropped, but then took off and has never returned to the U.S.
He's had many other claims against him, including a recent civil settlement suit over a underage rape in 1973.
He's a piece of shit.
Angier Biddle Duke earned a place in the history of panache with the timing and manner of his death. At age 79, he was killed by an auto while rollerblading in Southampton NY.
Several of the big AIs have nothing useful to add. My granddaughter wears a button that says, "AI. It's not worth the trouble".
Claude lectured me on having unrealistic expectations about what historians should or shouldn't have figured out or looked into.
Oh dear, for a gay man, chrissy is decades behind on his dish...
Wait until he reads about what went down in the WH swimming pool!
Mama likey?
Yeah I tried AI and got nowhere.
Grok: “So my actual guess is not a name. It is that she was a discreet European socialite already in Italy, known to the protocol people, and that Reeves left her unnamed because naming her would have been both unverifiable and cruel. The gap is the point.”
C'mon, Grok! Hallucinate one for the team!
It seems a lot of women are going to take their secrets about JFK to the grave. Bill Clinton dragged a lot of mud, but there was a great deal more that was allowed to harden and dry and blow away. I'm sure Trump was a horn dog, but I don't think the the press or the women in his life have helped him keep things secret.......JFK undoubtedly got away with the most Even today we don't know a fraction of it.........Well, he was good looking, a war hero, the son of a rich man, a Pulitzer Prize winning (sort of) author, a powerful man in his own right. Any one of those things can get you over, and he had all that working for him. It's a wonder he refrained from having sex with every attractive woman he ever met---or perhaps he did and we just don't know about it yet.
“It’s good to be the King!”
Cumalot stories never pall.
If I am not mistaken, a lot of JFK's "heroic WW II exploits" were due to his incompetence as a PT boat commander, which allowed the Japanese destroyer that rammed Kennedy's boat to quite allegedly sneak up without Kennedy noticing. How a 300 foot long, 2,000 ton vessel could be so stealthy seems strange, to say the least. The truth of that evening's events was not of particular concern when viewed against the potential for apotheosizing Joe Kennedy's second son.
It was Queen Elizabeth II, I'm pretty sure. She was a flamethrower at night.
Whatever the equivalent of Epstein Island was 60 years ago, you can bet JFK signed the guest book.
Leslie Caron would also be in contention.
He's had many other claims against him, including a recent civil settlement suit over a underage rape in 1973... He's a piece of shit.
And knowing all this, the depraved scum and filth of the Hollywood sewer gave a standing ovation to the piece of shit at one of the awards shows six or eight years ago, led by Meryl Streep.
I wish the Pacific Palisades fire had taken all of Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley studios too, with all those actors and producers inside them, and the remnants of the industry departed post haste for Canada. Showbiz people are the emptiest, most worthless, most disgusting class of people in our whole nation. Skid Row winos and meth addicts have more integrity.
Roman Pervertski and Meryl Creep
There is a JFK memorial in Bellagio. It isn't a giant phallus though. There ought to be a JFK memorial with the names of everyone he had sex with on it. Maya Lin meets Tracey Emin.
Earnest Prole said...
"..And vice versa.."
care to give one (EVEN ONE) example of a republican being let off?
I'll wait
Probably one of the Agnelli women or some other foreign socialite we've never heard of.
It was Christine Jorgensen . Common knowledge
Remember the hysterics Democrats threw over Mitt Romney and his "binders of women!" that were merely a list of potential choices of women he was considering appointing? Oh how the Democrats screamed it was so tacky/bad/ implied immoral activity from Mitt Romney! All while they were celebrating Polanski, Bill Clinton, and calling Ted Kennedy the Lion of the Senate and the "ideal of what a Democrat Senator should be!" Presumably raping and murdering Mary Jo Kopechne was a feature, not a bug, to Democrats.
“care to give one (EVEN ONE) example of a republican being let off?”
I already did upthread. Not only is banging Stormy Daniels no big deal, it’s conclusive proof (along with all the other stuff) our man is a Virile Caesar.
Dodd sandwich. Don’t forget the Dodd sandwich…
My vote is Grace Kelly
IamDevo said...
If I am not mistaken, a lot of JFK's "heroic WW II exploits" were due to his incompetence as a PT boat commander,
Yeah, I always wondered how a noisy destroyer could have snuck up on a PT boat. PT Boat is not only faster but much more maneuverable yet the Destroyer managed to T-Bone it.
One story I read, supposedly from someone who knew, was that they were just drifting along underminimal power when they saw the destroyer. Kennedy jammed the throttles full forward.
The Packard engines required that throttles be advanced slowly. Going straight to full throttle flooded the engines causing them to flood and stall.
I think it was Roosevelt who said that he had to either give them a medal or a court-martial. Anyone not named Kennedy would have been courtmartialed.
John Henry
Lieutenant Commander Kennedy wanted full Navy treatment while ashore in Europe.
Teddy was just the one who got caught.
American royalty, my ass.
IamDevo said...
If I am not mistaken, a lot of JFK's "heroic WW II exploits" were due to his incompetence as a PT boat commander,
OK, he did a good job pulling Marine paratroopers (being used as Rangers) off Choiseul Island in the Solomons in concert with several other PTs, but it speaks volumes that only medal he got for the sinking of the 109 was the Navy Commendation Medal - usually given to Sailor of the Month.
*I already did upthread. Not only is banging Stormy Daniels no big deal, it’s conclusive proof (along with all the other stuff) our man is a Virile Caesar.*
Horseshit.
There is no comparison between Trump allegedly having sex in 2006 (as a private citizen) and the multitude of sexual misdeeds by ELECTED Democrats.
And the reason he was in the Navy in the South Pacific?
He would not, even under direct orders, sto schtupping Inga Arvad, wife of a suspected German spy
He was sent to Connecticut to get him away from her but he kept going back to her in DC.
FDR ordered the navy to send him to the pacific
John Henry
I think we can all agree it’s no big deal when our guy does it because reasons.
So how was your short trip to Italy Mrs. de Gaulle?
Didn't both Trump and Stormy Daniels deny, under oath, that anything happened between them at all, so even Prole's attack on him is wrong? Also: Trump WAS a democrat, especially during the alleged wrongdoing of the "grab them by the..." statements. That's just what Democrat men do, right? Grab em by the *blank*. Because Democrats do that kind of thing and always get away with it.
Has Trump had an affair or cheated on his wife since he became a Republican? Not that I'm aware. That was. Democrat time of his life.
Of course Republicans do get caught, yet they don't get praised as the Lion of the Senate for waitress sandwiches.... unlike Democrats!
I thought of Grace Kelly, too. Long gap between her kids '58-'65, and she was his type (two legs).
John Henry is correct as usual. Deep State Reformer, what Trump did or did not do (I don't believe the Cosmo sex column slut) as a private citizen is of no concern. In Broadway-light contrast, as it were, Kennedy both exploited and endangered his office, his staff, and our nation at a time of deep nuclear insecurity and Cold War realities. Maybe you're incredibly stupid, or maybe you're just some sociopath who gets off on blathering nonsense to seek attention, but either way, try to be a more sophisticated and vaguely interesting nag.
Was this another one of those evenings where Jackie left in tears?
JFK got the high-test trim. Definitely the GOAT. Trump and Clinton had to settle for trailer trash, porn actors, zaftig interns and male ordered brides.
Vance is probably correct. Most of Trump's dalliances were when he was a Democrat. Republican's are more likely to be toe tappers in the airport John.
“even Prole's attack on him is wrong”
I assure you I couldn’t care less where Trump (or Kennedy) puts his dick. I’ll admit I’m amused by hypocrisy (the tribute vice pays to virtue).
Chat gpt5 claims to know the answers:
“ On the JFK question: the woman was very likely Marella Agnelli—Princess Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto, the prominent Italian socialite and wife of Gianni Agnelli of Fiat.
The June 30, 1963 episode at Villa Serbelloni on Lake Como is well supported in its general outline. McGeorge Bundy later recalled that Kennedy specifically did not want Secretary of State Dean Rusk staying at the villa with him, to Rusk’s considerable irritation. Contemporary oral-history material confirms that Kennedy stayed at Villa Serbelloni while Rusk and most of the party went directly to Rome.
The woman’s identity is less firmly documented. Later accounts explicitly name Marella Agnelli, and Howell Raines reported that local Lake Como gossip identified her as having come from Turin to see Kennedy. When Sally Bedell Smith later asked Marella directly about the alleged affair, her answer was deliberately noncommittal: “Maybe yes, maybe no.”
Grace Kelly also occurred to me, but then why the qualifier “of some note in Europe”?
For those of you unfamiliar with Marella Agnelli, google Richard Avedon’s portrait of her.
Prole - can you spot the difference?
Kennedy WAS president and Married - when he F*ed around.
Trump - NOT president during the supposed stormy affair (made mirky by hacks / liars in the media.)
But Stormy did black out - and that sounds real.
“Prole - can you spot the difference?”
Distinctions not cost effective.
"It interests me that I have never heard this story before even though this book is old."
Old books are full of things that will be news to us if we get in there. It's a good place to hide things.
The attention we give to the present is vastly disproportionate to the importance it will have when it's filed away in history.
You can watch the current present hour by hour, reading each new story as it happens or you can use your time — within the span of 3 presidential terms — to read the best biographies of every one of the presidents (that is, Chris's project).
A lady of some note in Europe could describe Maria Callas. She was not hard to look at, and had what it took to charm a rich guy.
"For those of you unfamiliar with Marella Agnelli, google Richard Avedon’s portrait of her."
Freakish!
JFK and his brothers were all cooze hounds. It was and is one of their less attractive features.
*****
Ted Kennedy the Lion of the Senate and the "ideal of what a Democrat Senator should be!" Presumably raping and murdering Mary Jo Kopechne was a feature, not a bug, to Democrats.
*****
Come now, while it's certainly true that he was an evil, stupid, cowardly, and worthless man who did great damage to our country as a Senator, what he did to Mary Jo is more fairly described as negligent homicide rather than murder.
What was really unforgivable is the way he left her to drown and summoned his cronies and fixers to make sure he wriggled out of the punishment that would have attached to his actions at Chappaquiddick if he were anyone other than JFK's dumber little brother.
And what do you mean, "rape"? I've never heard a single allegation that Mary Jo was unwilling to be heading out of town for a beachfront fling with Fat Ted. Another one of the tens of thousands of naive, starry-eyed young starfuckers who flock to places like Washington and Hollywood in hopes of rolling in the hay with rich, famous, powerful men.
Ooh… ooh… Maria Callas!
Sorry, tcrosse… just saw your comment. 😬
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