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...Justice Department report. Lawford confided ruefully, "I was Frank's pimp and Frank was Jack's. It sounds terrible now, but it was really a lot of fun." For his part, Sinatra introduced both J.F.K. and Giancana to a 25-year-old brunet named Judith Campbell (later Judith Exner); for over a year Kennedy, by then President, and the Mafia don shared the same mistress...
...Emily Exner...
...breaking rules. When John followed this path, though, he got into trouble. The FBI taped the young naval officer's wartime dalliance with a European beauty-contest winner who had Nazi connections. In the White House, another affair put him in worse jeopardy. His partner, Judith Campbell (later Exner), was also seeing Mobster Sam Giancana, whom the CIA was trying to enlist in a plot to kill Castro...
Contrary to Warhol's essentially democratic premise-everybody, but briefly -fame elevates some mortals into realms where their celebrity achieves a life of its own. While a Tiny Tim or a Judith Exner may flare and fade, others acquire a strange permanence-or its illusion, which is of course just as good. They have been transported into another medium where information and images are permanently (or for years, anyway) stored. In the formula of Historian Daniel Boorstin, they have "become well known for being well known." A classic of the category is, say, Elizabeth Taylor. Who, outside...
...mark the first time he has been out front of most of the Washington press corps. In four years as a New York Times columnist he has helped keep journalistic attention on such languishing scandals as Korean influence buying and John Kennedy's liaison with Judith Campbell Exner. In the Lance affair, Safire for a time had so many fresh allegations that Times editors in New York asked Washington staffers what he knows that they...