Consider the following excerpt based on Kelley:
She knew far more about these goings-on than he ever
suspected and dealt with them through hauteur, as when she
disdainfully handed him some panties she'd found in her
pillow slip, saying, "Here, would you find out who these
belong to. They're not my size. (Ibid)
With this kind of standard I'm surprised the authors did not use
that other ersatz Kelley "bombshell" about Jackie, namely that
JFK's affairs drove her to electroshock therapy.
Many of the sexual anecdotes go unsourced, but there is one that
is footnoted that is quite revealing. The authors use it as a
coda to a chapter on Jack's early years in the House. This
passage synthesizes the image they wish to depict: Kennedy as the
empty vessel of his father who had his role as politician forced
on him after Joe Junior's death and who now uses sex as a release
from his own vacuity. It deserves to be quoted at length:
The whole thing with him was pursuit. I think he was
secretly disappointed when a woman gave in. It meant that
the low esteem in which he held women was once again
validated....I was one of the few he could really talk
to....During one of these conversations I once asked him why
he was doing it-why he was acting like his father...why he
was taking a chance on getting caught in a scandal.... He
took awhile to formulate an answer. Finally he s