01550cam a2200265 4500 96121760 TxAuBib 20120216120000.0 111212s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781400069101 hbk. 1400069106 hbk. TxAuBib Alford, Mimi. Once upon a secret : my affair with President John F. Kennedy and its aftermath / Mimi Alford. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 2012. 198 p. : port ; 22 cm. In the summer of 1962, nineteen-year-old Mimi Beardsley arrived by train in Washington, D.C., to begin an internship in the White House press office. The Kennedy Administration had reinvigorated the capital and the country--and Mimi was eager to contribute. For a young woman from a privileged but sheltered upbringing, the job was the chance of a lifetime. Although she started as a lowly intern, Mimi made an impression on Kennedy's inner circle and, after just three days at the White House, she was presented to the President himself. Almost immediately, the two began an affair that would continue for the next eighteen months. 20120803. Kennedy, John F John Fitzgerald 1917-1963 Relations with women. Alford, Mimi. Presidents United States Staff Biography. United States Politics and government 1961-1963. BSBPL