"She came from a world where that is what men did, and it was accepted," Pamela Keogh says of Jackie Kennedy's acceptance of husband JFK's alleged affairs. read more
The Kennedy women, excepting possibly Robert Kennedy's wife Ethel (it was rumored that RFK had an affair with Marilyn Monroe, but was never confirmed), and Eunice Shriver, wife of Sargent Shriver and mother of Maria Shriver, all married men who had affairs. read more
Jackie Kennedy had, in fact, even spoken to other people about several of her husband’s affairs, claims New York City gossip columnist Liz Smith. “[Her friends] Truman Capote and Gore Vidal told me she knew all about Judith Exner [an alleged mistress] and everybody else, and that she read [my stories] on Judith with high interest,” Smith said. read more
Instead, sharing both home and office meant that she saw Kennedy many times a day, eventually deciding the White House years were "the happiest time of my life." But Andersen also reports that Jackie knew about all of JFK's women. read more