Big Bear was right again. This time about John F. Kennedy. The F… well, let’s just say it didn’t stand for “Fitzgerald”.
In September 1953, she and Jack wed in a lavish ceremony in Rhode Island. By 1960, they were in the White House — and so was Lem, with his own bedroom in the private residence. Jackie confessed to Senator George Smathers, one of JFK’s closest allies, that she could barely stand it.
‘Just one weekend in my life,’ she said, ‘I’d like to have my husband to myself. But Lem is always there, bathing and massaging him, even putting on his shoes and socks.’
Whispers about JFK and Lem’s ‘special relationship’ flew through DC, the press corps, the FBI and CIA — the latter agency worrying that Russia and other enemy states could blackmail the president with such information.
Jackie understood. Her own father, ‘Black Jack’ Bouvier, was a womanizing bisexual. Very little shocked her, and she came to appreciate Lem’s loyalty and discretion, the ‘stress relief’, as Lem often put it, that he provided for Jack.
However, I don’t think this was the big release of the files related to JFK for which everyone was waiting.
UPDATE: I would be remiss if I did not provide a link to Big Bear presenting evidence to a Boomer concerning what the “F” in John F. Kennedy stood for.
