, lo conoció al comenzar una pasantía, dice que en ese mismo día, ex presidente john f. kennedy relaciones que antes. >>> tenemos casos como el ex presidente clinton, como el gobernador de carolina del sur, que han tenido sus affaires y amoríos que no han podido esconder. >>> mimi dijo que

woman has written a book out this week that unveils an affair from 50 years ago with president john f. kennedy. the woman is 69 now, a grandmother. and in the story as told by her, she was 19 then, a college intern when this happened in the kennedy white house and elsewhere. the full story and interview airs tonight on "rock center." it has already generated a lot of attention. meredith vieira is here with a preview. welcome. >> reporter: thanks very much, brian. mimi alford was just 19 years old when she went to work as an intern in the white house press office. a summer job that would change her life. she has written a book about her experiences there, including an 18-month secret affair with president john f. kennedy. >> i had to write this book. >> reporter: why did you have to? >> why did i have to? it started out feeling that i couldn't leave this story as a paragraph, this experience i had as a paragraph in somebody else's book. so i really wanted to take one control of it myself. >> reporter: alford says her secret began in the summer of 1962, when she started what she says was an 18-m

and obviously there's no love lost between john f. kennedy rose kennedy was obviously in shock and had to take the phone call but didn't want to stay on the line very long. got off it probably just didn't help the scenario any that john f. kennedy is dead and he was killed in texas, lyndon johnson's state. >> oh, yeah. do you really think that it's hard for me doing all the work, you've done it too about that relationship between jack kennedy. i know he picked johnson for his own needs to win texas and other southern states. they were never buddies before. probably never buddies again. but what is your thinking about the real sentiments involved? >> there was no relationship there by 1963. you know, bobby kennedy lived to loathe lyndon johnson as did ted kennedy and the kennedy family. there was always the feeling that johnson's presidency wasn't real, that it was really just a co-option of kennedy policies and the proof in the pudding that bobby kennedy geared up to run in 1968 over vietnam and wanted to in many ways help cripple johnson's p

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john f. kennedy. her secret was first revealed in 2003 when historian robert dallek wrote in his biography of jfk that a tall, slender, beautiful white house intern was rumored to be among the president's many paramours. it prompt the inevitable comparisons to bill clinton's scandalous relationship with white house intern mon kalu win ski but in 2003 mimi wasn't offering details. she released a short statement and disappeared. >> when i saw this book, the first thing that thought was i don't even remember -- i don't remember this story. you had successfully sort of fallen off the face of the earth, so to speak. why did you decide to expose yourself all over again, mimi? why write this book now? >> it's not so much that i feel that i'm exposing myself. it's that i'm really unburdening myself. i think when you keep a secret and when you keep silent about something, you do it because you think it's keeping you safe. but, in fact, it's deadly. >> reporter: it all goes back to 1961 when "meet the press mi

. >> richard wolffe on the attack on education and joan walsh on ridiculous knock on john f. kennedy. >>> mitt romney's days of blunder continue. >> i have great friends that are nascar team owners. >> it's as tight as a tick in michigan. howard fineman and john nichols have the latest. >>> a brand new state has declared war on women's bodies and their law goes farther than virginia. the grio's joy-ann reid and terry o'neill are here. >>> in wisconsin, the biggest victory for the recall walker movement to dait te. >> it's nine million dollars of taxpayer money to run this. >> good to have you with us tonight, thanks for watching. rick santorum is trying to drive a wedge between wage earners and the president of the united states. santorum's new attack on the president is taylor made for the people in the rust belt states like michigan. here is his pitch to a tea party crowd. >> i know what manufacturing means to a community, i grew up in one. i understand what it means to have folks who are at the bottom of the economic ladder, folks who are struggling to pull the skills together to

. >>> when "nightly news" continues, the intern and president john f. kennedy, a story she never wanted out. a story she kept secret until now. and living history, an extraordinary group of americans who helped save the world leaving behind their stories. >>> 50 years ago a 19-year-old student at wheaton college in massachusetts arrived in washington for an internship in the white house press office. now all these years later, mimi alford says her experience in the executive mansion included an 18-month long affair with then president john f. kennedy. she had planned never to speak of it until her story ended up in a prominent historian's biography of jfk a few years back. now she's chosen to talk in a new book out this week called "once upon a secret." meredith vieira has the story in an exclusive interview. >> most mornings when i woke up, i thought, i don't want to get up and write this book. i want to hide under the covers. >> reporter: what made you then get out from under the covers? >> i think when you keep a secret, and when you keep silent about someth

mind, chris matthews, and richard reevess, all three have researched and written books about john f. kennedyo." >> i called him an elusive hero, because that's what his widow said, she said unforgettable, elusive man. even she couldn't quite figure out who he was. >> a nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces, but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers. >> the greatest heros are often the most flawed. >> people have already factored in the idea he had other women in his life. somehow, the american people seem to have absorbed these stories over time, and it hasn't changed their fundamental liking of the memory of john kennedy. >> john f. kennedy, and his wife, too, are cultural figures that will live far beyond their years. there was a university about their looks, and we'd like to see ourselves reflected in them, and i don't think that's going to change. >> he broke his life up into separate pieces, separate compartments, they were very sealed from another. he had a frightening strength of being able to read everyone's emotions but not have them affect them. he did wha

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as president john f. kennedye new frontier is not a set of promises. it is a set of challenges. and these astronauts not only accepted those challenges, they challenged future generations to explore new horizons, to apply our skills, our effort, our determination to any obstacles before us. when president kennedy announced his determination to chart a new course into space, all americans and those of you who -- many of you may not have been born then, but for many of us learned a new word, astronaut, sailors to the stars. a sailor to the stars. in the past age of discovery, the sailors were guided by the stars. and the new age of discovery, the new frontier, these astronauts reached for the stars. senator john glenn became the first american to orbit the earth. he paved the way for not more missions into space, but for an expanded commitment to science and technology. and he acted upon that commitment with his leadership and the united states senate where he brought honor to the congress and as he and the other r

when oliver stone's movie came out in 1991, we had by 92 the john fnch f. kennedyssassinatn act where all available documentation came together but not this tape. and it turned out this tape was in the possession of the military aide of gen f john f. kennedy. the warren commission and the intelligence gathering mechanisms couldn't fi the tape but a dealer out of a book dealer an aquarium bookdealer out of philadelphia confined it. it's only going to open up a so-called case closed theory. and in this particular tape it raises some question about curtis lamay for example. one of the very significant as you know cold war figures who was angry about kennedy in cuba, thought we had really lost the showdown over the cuban missile crises because we cut a deal with the jupiter missiles in turkey. and lamay famesl wanted to use a nucleareapon if he had to win the cold war. here is on the tape lamay being injected for the first time in the drama and the hours after kennedy's death. >> charlie: let's set the record straight on a couple things. no one ever suggested lamay thr

mimi says she had an affair with president john f. kennedy that lasted some 18 months.here with that. >> meredith sat down with ms. alford for an interview for "rock center" with brian williams which airs wednesday. they talked about the president's darker side and why she kept the story a secret for so long. >> most mornings when i woke up i thought, i don't want to get up and write this book. i want to hide under the covers. >> reporter: what made you get out from under the covers? >> when you keep silent you think it's keeping you safe. in fact, it's deadly. >> reporter: the secret, claims alford started in the summer of 1962 when the 19-year-old debutante from a prominent new jersey family began what she says was an 18-month affair with president john f. kennedy. it was revealed in 2003 when it was written in a biography that a tall, slender, beautiful white house intern was rumored to be among the president's paramours. at the time mimi issued a short statement and then disappeared. now she is talking and says her first close encounter with the president took place

>>neil: if you take your signature issue of your opponent, i am thinking of john f. kennedyst the little rich kid and john f. kennedy said, i think the quote, i have just received the following wire from my generous daddy, dear jack, don't buy a single vote more than is necessary i'll be damned if i'm going to pay for a landslide." he kind of put it in perspective. >> association again, he was under criticism for having accepted so much money, the february was paying payloads to make him president of the united states, so he takes it straight on and makes you laugh and makes it smoothing and makes it funny. >>neil: easier said than do. the prominent candidates, not that they have to be funny young men, but how do you make a thorny issue like class warfare thing and you are not elitist snob as critics contend of mitt romney, how do you turn that around without being on serious defense? >>guest: well, it depends on the temperament of the person. what it means you have to not take yourself so seriously even though you are taking the job seriously and the argument seriously. but

john f. kennedyled masses, yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teaming shores, send these, your homeless, tempest tossed to me. i lift my lamp to the golden door. >> ♪ [applause] [cheers and applause] >> good morning, everyone. i am the director of the mayor's office of economic and workforce development. we are here to announce the 10- year lease for river bed at 680 folsom st.. 167,000 square foot lease. we have the mayor, ceo of river bed, the owner of the building, as well as david from jll to talk of the significance of this to the city. >> thank you, good morning. wee

now santorum is criticizing john f. kennedy who in 1960 said this. >> i believe in an america where the separation of church and state is absolute. where no catholic zealot would tell the president should he be catholic how to act. and no protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote. where no church or church school can granted any public funds or political preference. and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him. >> that makes me throw up. and it should make every american seeing from a president someone who is now trying to tell people of faith that you will do what the government says. we are going to impose our values on you. not that you can't come to the public square and argue against it but now we're going to turn around and say we're going to impose our values from the government on people of faith, which, of course, is the next logical step when people of faith, at least according to john kenn

john f. kennedyed, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teaming shores, send these, your homeless, tempest tossed to me. i lift my lamp to the golden door. >> ♪ [applause] [cheers and applause] >> good morning, everyone. i am the director of the mayor's office of economic and workforce development. we are here to announce the 10- year lease for river bed at 680 folsom st.. 167,000 square foot lease. we have the mayor, ceo of river bed, the owner of the building, as well as david from jll to talk of the significance of this to the city. >> thank you, good morning. welcome to the super bowl of innovation. while we did not enjoy the other super bowl, we have been working on hours. i have always referred to san francisco -- and we continue to do this -- as the innovation capital of the world. riverbed's decision to sign a 10-year lease and to work with the city to renovate a building here in south market, to make sure they are staying and growing here is a

i don't know what it is, we are still so fascinated by john f. kennedy.e a compelling woman. >> very compelling and credible this is a secret she spoke for 50 years, never spoke publicly about it. she was actually outed in a book back in 2003. and at that point she issued a written statement saying, yes, i am the mimi who had the affair with jfk. after that she basically disappeared. >> i think we're privileged to play -- >> it was exciting. it was glamorous. it was fun. >> she was a 19-year-old college kid, an intern in the white house press office. >> as clearly and persuasively as i could. >> reporter: he was the 45-year-old leader of the free world, and she was mesmerized. >> i was sort of swept into this web. >> don't do it. the can't win. bad year. >> reporter: for the handsome president, his charisma, his magnetism. mimi alford says after losing her virginity to president kennedy on her fourth day on the job they began an affair, spending evenings together in the private residence as often as twice a week. europe 19. he's 45. what did you talk abou

you chose as the divide, the assassination of john f. kennedy. >> uh-huh. >> rose: because you believe that things happened differently because lyndon johnson was president and not john f. kennedy. >> that's not why i chose it but we can come back to that. i chose it because the day before john f. kennedy's assassination was sort of a good place to take as the baseline for a culture that was pretty well in place. and things changed dramatically after that. i have very little in this book about causes. and there's a reason for that you know, i wrote a book called losing ground which argued and i still believe that the reforms of the 60s jump-started a lot of the trends that i defloor. -- deplore. but we are where we are right now. and that toothpaste is not put back in the tube just by reversing a couple of policies here and there. so i run it in this book to address people without don't agree with me politically but who are going to be sympathetic to the nature of the problem. whether i succeeded or not we will find out. >> okay but so what is t