If you have been watching TV at all this week, I am pretty sure you have seen a interview with the woman who has decided to write a book about her eighteen month affair with President Kennedy.
NBC has been having a field day with it. After the interview, the station had panels of different people discussing their thoughts including that two of the prominent ladies applaud her for “coming forward with her secret” eluding to how her affair is such a part of history it should be told.
I disagree. Let it go. It would be one thing to announce you had an affair. It seems that many powerful men have the need have affairs. Once caught they act like a kid with his hand in the cookie jar, but no matter, they continue on their way. Even George Washington was known to visit slave quarters fairly often.
However, my opinion of this affair is that we have no need to know, forty-eight years after his assaination, details such as she has decided to reveal. Her affair has nothing to do with history even though some of NBC's personnel seem to think it does.
All that being said, I watched the interview so perhaps I am just as at fault. Once over, it is my opinion that If she had never written those details, we would have been none the less for it. Of course it is my opinion that money. the root of all evil, is the motivator.
Like it or not, it is a known fact that John Kennedy alledgedly“played around. So my thought is let it be. What good comes out of telling some of the sordid details, alot of which, by the way,cannot be disputed since most involved have passed. I watched a historian sort of struggle with the revelations even admitting it dimished his thoughts of the President. For some reason, I felt badly about that.
Caroline Kennedy, while she has her own wonderful family, is the only survivor of that family foursome. How difficult it must be for her to have everyone writing books about those she loved with all her heart.
Last week it was John John’s personal aide, although her story is mostly heart wrenching. This week it is this woman coming forward.
As writers, I believe we agree, writing is therapy. It does soothe our souls. While we might write it down….. would we publish it?
I have in my heart a couple of secrets. If I told my secrets would it do any good? No it would not. It would hurt people so I will never tell them ever.
I remember a time in my life when I questioned a family incident that I thought happened fifty years earlier. I believed my great-uncle could answer my question, so I approached him.
He hugged me and quietly smiled, “Even if you are right, what difference would it make? I would suggest you let dead dogs lie.”
Good advice. I think someone should have suggested that to this woman rather than sensationalizing her secret. .
Just musin,,, this morning!
© 2012 Musings by Marilyn - 2/10/12
