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 minute," who was then mimi beardsley, was a senior at miss porter's boarding school for girls in connecticut. as editor of the student newspaper, mimi wanted to interview the school's most famous alum that, jackie kennedy. she didn't get the interview, but she did visit the white house where she briefly met the presid