Grandmother and Church Worker Admits to Being JFK's Monica

UK Guardian -- Bill Clinton was surely cursing his luck and wishing Monica Lewinsky was a little more like Marion "Mimi" Beardsley, who yesterday admitted having an affair with John F Kennedy while she was a teenage White House intern.

According to newly declassified archives, Ms Beardsley's relationship with JFK went much further than the furtive Clinton-Lewinsky encounters in and around the Oval Office.

At the age of 19 she was one of a harem of young girls hired by the press office principally to be at the president's disposal. She was flown around the country on air force planes so that she was on hand for JFK on his travels.

She was even spotted crouching on the floor of his limousine during the president's 1962 summit with Harold Macmillan in the Bahamas, where the two leaders discussed British use of the Polaris nuclear missile.