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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (3909)	9/4/1998 1:26:00 PM
From: Les H	Respond to of 13994

Family Outraged As New Book Tells Of . . . Bobby Kennedy's Secret Life Of Drugs, Brawls And Sexcapades Bobby Kennedy got high on government-confiscated cocaine, partied with hookers, enjoyed bar brawls -- and had a sizzling romance with Jackie Onassis after JFK's assassination. Those are just some of the bombshell claims in a controversial new book "In the Eye of the Storm: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy" by biographer C. David Heymann. And the scathing bio has the outraged Kennedy clan up in arms. "All this talk about Bobby doing drugs and playing around is rubbish. I don't believe any of it is true," Jamie Auchincloss, Jackie Onassis' half brother, told The ENQUIRER. Heymann -- the author of several bios including "A Woman Named Jackie" -- also writes that RFK, the father of 11, had an affair with Barbara Marx before her marriage to Frank Sinatra. It was young RFK's playboy father who started him off on the wrong foot, confided a publishing insider familiar with the book. "The author tells about the time his dad Joe hired a Harlem whore for teenaged Bobby to introduce him to sex. "It shaped his attitudes for the rest of his life. Like other Kennedy men, he viewed women as sex objects. And as a result, he developed a taste for hookers. "Four years into married life, he had a hot affair with an airline stewardess who told Heymann that Bobby was a great lover. "He was also a guy who liked to scrap. He was first to throw a punch in barroom brawls. "While he was working for the Justice Department., he had access to drugs -- especially cocaine -- which he helped himself to. He would even stage drug raids to fatten his own stash." An angry Auchincloss fired back: "It is all a figment of the imagination. I knew Bobby well. He was the original Mr. Go Get 'Em . . . like a top cop. He was a straight arrow." But Heymann writes the "straight arrow" could fly out of control over women -- and that Bobby went to tremendous lengths to see Marilyn Monroe after his brother had discarded her. "They started out as friends but it soon blossomed into a passionate affair," said the publishing insider. "The summer their affair began, Bobby often arrived on the Fox lot by helicopter and guarded by Secret Service agents. "Bobby, who was Attorney General, sometimes even spent the night together with Marilyn in the presidential suite at the Beverly Hilton hotel." The no-holds-barred book takes an even more shocking turn -- charging Bobby romanced former First Lady Jackie after taking the grieving widow under his wing. "Jackie and Bobby had an affair that started after JFK was assassinated," said the publishing insider. "Heymann writes that after the murder, Bobby felt a strong sense of responsibility for Jackie. "Just four months after the assassination, Bobby accompanied Jackie on a vacation from Stowe, Vt., to Antigua. His wife Ethel was jealous and she was also not happy when Bobby began to escort Jackie home after social events. "Her husband reassured her there was no affair but angry Ethel began to refer to Jackie behind her back as 'the widder.' " Auchincloss insists Heymann got the Jackie-Bobby relationship all wrong. "They became emotionally close after JFK was killed. A romance would have shattered the friendship they had and valued." But Bobby was a pushover for attractive women. He fell hard for former show girl Barbara Marx, married at the time to Zeppo Marx, according to the biography. "Tall, glamorous Barbara captured Bobby's eye on one of his Las Vegas trips," said the insider. "Because her husband Zeppo was years older and far more interested in playing poker than tending to his husbandly duties, Bobby saw his opportunity and took it. "Barbara and Bobby fell into a fling which turned so hot they once had to be physically separated while on a public dance floor. By the time Frank Sinatra married Barbara in 1976, Bobby was dead -- but that didn't stop Frank from hating RFK." Auchincloss hotly denied that Bobby and Barbara had a romance. "It's totally ridiculous," he said. Concluded a source: "The Kennedys are seething with anger over this book." -- PATRICIA TOWLE and LARRY HALEY

To: Zoltan! who wrote (3909)	9/4/1998 1:39:00 PM
From: j_b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

<< That's not the poll I referred to. The poll I referred to was confined to "likely voters". >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- August 29, 1998 Government by Opinion Polls Pollster John Zogby, who only polls likely voters, found the president's favorability free-falling after his speech to the nation. "The fall was arrested," Zogby told me, "when he ordered the military action, but among likely voters the numbers of those who think it is time for him to leave office are now between 51% and 65%..." The New York Post By Arianna Huffington