Nero Fiddled but Kennedy Partied

[Geee]

American Thinker:

Presidential mistress (while a teenager) Mimi Alford claims that the president who remains the most popular in modern U.S. history offered her amyl nitrate poppers during a nude swimming party at the Palm Springs estate of Bing Crosby, the most popular entertainer of America's Norman Rockwell era. The party took place around "White" Christmas of 1962.

"The shouts and shrieks of the partygoers," writes Seymour Hersh in his earlier (but corroborating book) The Dark Side of Camelot, "had the California State policemen guarding the estate that night assuming the sounds were actually the nighttime calls of coyotes."

But as the whoops and shrieks got louder, the alarmed state troopers finally called Kennedy's Secret Service agents, Joe Paolella and Larry Newman, to ask if some coyotes were bothering the president. The agents, long accustomed to averting their gaze during these frequent episodes, finally went around back and investigated: "[Kennedy's top aide] Dave Powers [was] bang**g a girl on the edge of the pool," recalled Newman. "The President is sitting across the pool having a drink and talking to some broads. Everybody was buck**s naked."

But no word from the Secret Service agents if Bingo's "Silent Night, Holy Night" played in the background during this Yuletide celebration.

Mere months earlier, dozens of Cuban exiles (many of them college kids about Mimi Alford's age) were infiltrating Cuba and bringing out eyewitness reports of what remains the biggest military threat to the U.S. since 1812. In the process, dozens were also dying by firing squad and torture at the hands of Castro and Che Guevara's KGB-tutored secret police.

For all the good the Cubans boys did:

"Nothing but refugee rumors," sneered JFK's National Security advisor, McGeorge Bundy on ABC's Issues and Answers on October 14, 1962. "Nothing in Cuba presents a threat to the United States," continued the Ivy League luminary, barely masking his scorn for these hot-headed and deceitful Cubans. "There's no likelihood that the Soviets or Cubans would try and install an offensive capability in Cuba," he scoffed.

And for all the thanks the Cubans got:

"There's fifty-odd-thousand Cuban refugees in this country," sneered President Kennedy himself the following day, "all living for the day when we go to war with Cuba. They're the ones putting out this kind of stuff."

[righteousmomma]

Absolutely disgusting.

[cudjo]

yep, absolutely disgusting

[nickydog]

But what about Camelot? Where does that fit in?