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Jackie aware of President Kennedy`s affairs, says a book
New York, May 18: Former President John Kennedy`s wife Jackie was `heart-wrenchingly` aware of the sexual affairs he engaged in during his years in the White House, a new book says.
New York, May 18: Former President John Kennedy's wife Jackie was "heart-wrenchingly" aware of the sexual affairs he engaged in during his years in the White House, a new book says.
In "An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963," author Robert Dallek details how the President tried to satisfy a voracious appetite for sex by bedding a string of party girls and staffers.
A New York-based daily quotes the book as saying Kennedy's glamorous young wife was pained by his flagrant philandering, to the point where she made snide or angry remarks about it in dangerously public settings.
"Isn't it bad enough that you solicit this woman for my husband, but then you insult me by asking me to shake her hand!" she sniped at two aides after spotting one of her husband's sex partners on a receiving line.
Another day, during a tour of the White House, she told a shocked French journalist, "This is the girl who supposedly is sleeping with my husband." Edward Klein, author of the 1996 book "All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy", agrees that JFK's extra-martial affairs were no secret to his wife, the paper says.
"It wasn't a mystery to her that all the young, attractive women in the White House were fair game as far as her husband was concerned,” he says.
Before he was elected President, John Kennedy could be cruelly blatant about his skirt-chasing. "At a dinner party, he would often disappear with a woman who was sitting at the table with them," Klein says. "It caused a lot of heartache and tension, but she (Jackie Kennedy) was accustomed to men who behaved like that," Klein said, referring to her father, Jack Bouvier, a notorious womanizer.
"Jackie came from an upper class where this kind of behaviour, though not applauded by women, was widely expected by them," he says. "Nonetheless, it wasn't easy to live with."
Jackie Kennedy's own alleged love affairs may have salved her wounds." Klein says. She carried on with Fiat heir Gianni Agnelli; other accounts say she had a revenge romance with movie star William Holden.
Bureau Report
"Isn't it bad enough that you solicit this woman for my husband, but then you insult me by asking me to shake her hand!" she sniped at two aides after spotting one of her husband's sex partners on a receiving line.
Another day, during a tour of the White House, she told a shocked French journalist, "This is the girl who supposedly is sleeping with my husband." Edward Klein, author of the 1996 book "All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy", agrees that JFK's extra-martial affairs were no secret to his wife, the paper says.
"It wasn't a mystery to her that all the young, attractive women in the White House were fair game as far as her husband was concerned,” he says.
Before he was elected President, John Kennedy could be cruelly blatant about his skirt-chasing. "At a dinner party, he would often disappear with a woman who was sitting at the table with them," Klein says. "It caused a lot of heartache and tension, but she (Jackie Kennedy) was accustomed to men who behaved like that," Klein said, referring to her father, Jack Bouvier, a notorious womanizer.
"Jackie came from an upper class where this kind of behaviour, though not applauded by women, was widely expected by them," he says. "Nonetheless, it wasn't easy to live with."
Jackie Kennedy's own alleged love affairs may have salved her wounds." Klein says. She carried on with Fiat heir Gianni Agnelli; other accounts say she had a revenge romance with movie star William Holden.
Bureau Report