6. JFK’s Affair With Marilyn Monroe
JFK was lucky that the media back then was way more discreet than today. In 1962, Marilyn Monroe caught Kennedy’s eye after she made a spectacular entrance at a New York dinner party held in his honor. He was immediately attracted to her, and they hooked up in Palm Springs soon thereafter. However, she took it more seriously than he did, and did little to hide what was going on. Her sultry “Happy Birthday” performance for JFK during a fundraising event in Madison Square Garden – in the presence of his wife, no less – got tongues wagging.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqolSvoWNck&t=39s
Gossip about the barely concealed affair between the president and the blond bombshell eventually caused Kennedy to back away from Monroe, and end things. To JFK, Monroe was just one among dozens of pretty women he had slept with. To Monroe, JFK was the only president she had slept with, and she was not about to give up that easy. She kept calling the White House, trying to rekindle the affair, until Kennedy sent somebody over to convince her that it was over, and that she needed to stop.