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A Second time (and she, in fact, denies she was). Cusack, a man passing him forged doc- But to trust the mobsters' party girl uments about , has The Dark Side of Camelot the implausibility of his tale? Why, if with incriminating money, as she only to read this book to wonder what by Seymour M. Hersh. Kennedy had tong ties with the mob, claims he did, would be out of charac- he would not fall for if it fit his pur- Little, Brown, 498 pp., 526.95 would he have to go to Judge Tuohy ter for Kennedy, in ways that Hersh pose. He even believes Campbell when for an introduction to Giancana? If he himself has pointed out in another Garry Wills she adds more people who trusted her did not know Giancana by this time, connection. Various women told Hersh with incriminating materials. She made surely he would know somebody who that Kennedy had a low regard for trips taking things to killer Johnny I am ready to believe nine bad things did know him. Yet Hersh relies on women, treating them as mere sex ob- Rosselli as well as to Giancana. She ar- about John Kennedy before breakfast bluff to decide the matter: "Robert jects. One of the more intelligent for- ranged two meetings with Giancana —until Mr. Hersh adds a tenth, and McDonnell's firsthand testimony is suer lovers quoted by Hersh strikes the after Kennedy became president that makes me begin wondering about compelling...." Just in case we are not recurring note: "There was a compart- When she became pregnant with the first nine. The more charges he convinced by now, Hersh adds con- ment for girls, and-once you were in Kennedy's child, she and the President adds to the score, the more I feel 1 firming testimony that is actually the sex compartment, you weren't a decided she must have an abortion. should be subtracting from it He tells contradictory. • person anymore. I got declassed and Where did Kennedy turn for that? By us so many unbelievable things he says 2- Tina told Hersh that her depersonalized." we never knew that we begin to doubt now you expect it: "Would Sam help father Frank was the go-between who Ms. Exner, who naively says that the us?" The President wants to incur a all the things we thought we knew. If set up a meeting with Giancana on a President loved her, now has a motive debt that gives precious knowledge of Hersh will just write two more books golf course, to discuss mob help with for saying that he trusted serious mat- about Kennedy, I could end up as a scandal to the Mafia boss. Sounds starry-eyed about the man as any believable to Hersh. Sorensen or Schlesinger. Hersh has only one thing to confirm Exner's suspect new "memories"—at least he thinks it a confirmation. Since The Giancana Connection Exner was under FBI surveillance Take the whole long saga of mob (though no money satchels were re- leader . The Church ported by the agents), I. Edgar Committee established in 1975 that Hoover's men observed a break-in at the CIA tried to use Giancana's mob- her house conducted by the twin sons sters to assassinate Fidel Castro. (The of an ex-Fig man who was acting as chief of security at General Dynam- mob had lost gambling interests to Castro's government) But Hersh says ics Corporation. Since General Dy- that the Kennedys had an earlier and namics later won a defense contract continuing tie with Giancana, who from the Kennedy administration, stole the vote for Kennedy in Hersh asks, "Was Jack Kennedy black- 1960. The foundation for a Kennedy- palled by a desperate corporation?" Even if that hypothesis were yawed. Giancana alliance was laid in Prohibi- it would still not add an ounce of cred- tion days, when Joseph Kennedy was ibility to Earner's claims that —Hersh maintains—engaged with she was a courier taking money and documents gangsters in rum -running. Many have from the into gangland. believed this of Joseph Kennedy over Even if the break-in artists knew of the years, but Hersh adds no solid evi- these, did they expect her to keep copies dence for that belief. He quotes X say- after she gave them to Giancana? ing that gangster •Y, years afterward, What were the intruders after? Love talked of working with Kennedy. He letters? Were they placing a recording tells us that anyone who owned the device? In any case. Hersh is sure it Merchandise Mart in had to had to do with Kennedy and with know what the gangsters were up to. It General Dynamics. He assuma what is not an implausible theory, though needs proving when he says: "I tried it remains a theory, since Hersh lacks unsuccessfully to find out how Gen- documentary proof, here, of the sort eral Dynamics learned of Judith Ex- h brings to but air Keseetly'§ ner's ties to Jack Kennedy.tlbattien-.• father-in-law. John F. Fitzgerald, who tence assumes (a) that Ittle.i-ions-did stole his election to the House of Rep- nothing but at the behest of their fa- resentatives in 1918. ther, (b) that Hale did nothing but at But if one believes, as Hersh says he the behest of Genera/ Dynamics, and does, in Joseph Kennedy's close ties (c) that the only reason i9 be inter- — with the mob, how can one go on to ested in Eerier was Kennedy. But believe three other things he alleges? Exner had fainiore public. ties, with - -• 1. Joseph Kennedy, aware ahead of the 1960 election. Well, which is it to ten to her, even though it means she . . and Sam Giancana than • - time that the 1960 election would have be? If Kennedy was already in contact has to contradict what she told the with Kennedy.: Hale.isorts may have to be stolen in Illinois, asked a friend with Giancana through Sinatra. why did back in 1975 and bad an age-lila..of their own. Hale, as of his, Judge , to ar- he need to begin all over again with a what she wrote in her as-told-to book an ex-agent with security skills. for range a meeting with Giancana. Since judge who did not even know the man? of 1977, My Story. Then she said she sale, may have had 'other clients, or • - the judge did not know Giancana, he Hersh does not address the chronologi- passed no communications at all be- freelance interests;-Why would Gen- asked a lawyer for the mob, Robert cal problem with clarity; he fudges the tween the two men. But now the sixty- era! Dynamics, on the improbable by- McDonnell, to set up the meeting—a issue of priority, saying the meeting in three-year-old Eimer, debilitated by a pothesis that it knew of the Kennedy- meeting the judge was imprudent Tuohy's office was sometime "in the long Struggle with cancer, assures the Exner connection (which Hersh him- enough to hold in his own office. The winter of 1959-60" and the golf course eagerly listening Hersh that the mm- self calls a closely kept secret), have judge is dead now, and McDonnell meeting followed Sinatra's summons to sages she carried to Giancana proved commissioned an illegal act making the was seventy-one years old when Hersh Hyannis Port "late in 1959." Kennedy's love for hey "He was corporation subject to blaCkmail from interviewed him. McDonnell, a dis- 3. Finally, the Kennedys, who seemed bringing me into his life, and that was Hale, on the off chance of finding barred ex-alcoholic, was convicted in to have extraordinary difficulty get- very important to me.... He had to something with which the corporation 1966 of using forged money orders and ting access to Giancana, settled on the have great trust and faith in me." could corrupt the whole procurement in 1983 of attempted bribery. McDon- least probable intermediary of all, Ju- process? (Hersh, as usual, writes gaff nell's one claim to fame was his mar- dith Campbell (now Campbell Eerier), Of course Ms. Exner has, like all of Kennedy acted entirely free of govern- riage to Giancana's daughter, "Toni." who was having an affair with John us, read about the CIA's attempt to use ment machinery, defiant of other tares!. , Hersh has only McDonnell's word for Kennedy while she was moving in mob Giancana to assassinate Castro, so— sums from powerful players.) . the meeting of Joseph Kennedy with circles. "Jack asked, would I set up a sure enough—Kennedy relied on her So there you have it. On the flimsy Giancana. And even McDonnell says meeting with Sam Giancana...." For to send messages and documents to word of three peripheral people—Mc- Giancana did not steal anything for what reason? "I assumed it was for the Giancana dealing with this explosive Donnell, Sinatra filk, and Exner—all Kennedy, he just got union members campaign." Is there anyone in Amer- matter. What documents? Hersh might . boosting their own importance, the to campaign bard for him—which is ica the Kennedys did nor go to in 1960 have asked himself at this moment whole Giancana tale is fabricated. short of the allegation of vote stealing asking for a way to meet with Gian- Maps of Havana, formulas for poison Each was privy to a crucial contact bei•••• that Hersh quotes, with apparent cana? It was certainly reckless for pills? But that would spoil the good tween Giancana and Kennedy. TwO agreement, from a former federal Kennedy to be having the affair— story Hersh is positively salivating over have carried this story into a dishon- - prosecutor (G. Robert Blakey). though there is no evidence he knew by now. Anyone puzzled by the way °red age that their tales are meant to Is McDonnell's word stronger than she was steeping with Giancana at the Hersh fell for the gory of Laurence ornament. The third, Tina Sinatra,••

4 The New York Review used her story to spice up a TV show Monroe, though Spoto and James .cure is precluded by the fact that - "A thrilling, about her father, which no one took as Hilty show there is no evidence for Florida mandated a three-day cooling• "evidence" until Hersh came along. It even one sexual encounter with off period between taking out a license ' invigorating, would be reassuring to think that Roberta Yet the ever-handy Charles and performing the marriage.) If there Hersh's treatment of the Giancana Spalding says the President dispatched was damage control to be done. there challenging connection were an exception to his him from the White House to Califor- were pros at hand for the purpose. book's general trustworthiness. Un- nia in order to keep Monroe from talk- Besides, Kennedy was not the mar- experience." fortunately. it is entirely typical, and ing (though he says nothing of a pay- rying kind. He delayed marriage until not even the worst case of flimsily off— what was he going to do to political and familial pressure dictated substantiated claims. silence her? Kill her?). He found her it. But for the need to give his father in such pitiable condition that he took more Kennedy heirs, he might have • Sex Life ' her to the hospital —an act not "f I-c F P made his bachelor life more carefree Hersh runs through the litany of lia- recorded in Spoto's thorough treat- by taking his own recommendation to isons already reported—Ms. Exner, ment of Monroe's hospitalizations in Ben Bradlee' to have a vasectomy.' Inge Arvad, Mary Pinchot Meyer, 1961 and 1962. And if, by a slip, he was momentarily Florence Pritchett, secretaries "Fid- diverted into taking out a marriage li- dle" and "Paddle" (Hersh, unlike Spalding's "confirmations" of John cense, his father's watchdogs would Kennedy's affair with Monroe are dubi- have intervened to prevent the folly L ett t; some writers, does not give their real names), , Alicia Darr, ous, but Hersh cannot afford to chal- from being completed three days later. Ellen Rometsch, Suzy Chang, Maria lenge seventy-one-year-old Spalding's (Spalding, by the way, talks of destroy- Novotny. This topic has been thor- reliability (though he does admit the ing the marriage record. Did he also oughly gone over and lie has nothing man, who was on Dr. Max Jacobson's find and destroy the record of the li• but further detail (some of it suspect) "uppers" in the Sixties, now has "impair- cense being issued?) Both Kennedy "In this series of beautiful, provocative to add. A Secret Service man who ment of his short-term memory")— and socialite Dude Malcolm were essays, Gornick , • tinth plots that pit broke his profession's code to talk since Spalding is the one person Hersh high-profile people in Palm Beach so- passion and love against self-knowl- about Kennedy's sex life gave Hersh could find to prove that Kennedy was ciety. The dates they did have were secretly married in 1947 and perhaps reported in the press. How could the edge and transformation. Reading an anecdote (investigative reporters never divorced, making bastards of two acts—taking out the license and her is a thrilling, invigorating, chal- love anecdotes) about the President's John Jr. and Caroline Kennedy.' Spal- getting married—not have been re- lenging experience." wife deciding to use the White House swimming pool while the President ding knows there was a Kennedy mar- ported by any of the people handling —.Barbara Fisher, was cavorting there with two women. riage to Dude Malcolm in the Palm the ceremonies, and spread by word The Boston Sunday Globe The swimmers escaped by another Beach, Florida. records, since Kennedy of mouth? Hersh's desire to believe sent him to destroy the marriage record. route, leaving one large set of wet has made him as much a sucker for Everything, "Reveals with blaring clarity . :. a footprints and two small ones. But two else about this "mar- Charles Spalding as he was for Judith riage" is rumor based on an amateur Exner or Laurence Cusack. His slur on ruthless struggle between the claims of other agents, also relied on by Hersh, genealogist's huge book of family con- Kennedy's children is as despicable as Human connect:an say the President never had other and Me :mperaures nections. Louis L. Blauvelt, who-was that on three "female Kennedy family of the self." women in the White House when his wife was there. sixty-seven in 1947, added item 12,427 members" who, he quotes an agent 13 —Elizabeth Frank, Nigel Hamilton, when doing research to his list sometime before his death in saying, "propositioned various Secret The New York fetes Book Review for his book on Kennedy. turned up 1959. It is vague and inaccurate (he Service agents" for sex. records of his continual reinfection does not know Dude Malcolm's birth 0-8070-6222-7 date or how to spell her name, and he ihmess.v. MOO with venereal disease. Hersh gives more detail on the problem (chlamy- reverses the chronology of her first two marriages). There is nothing in is (or used to be) an dial infection) and on the threat it investigative reporter, one who seeks posed to Kennedy's sexual partners— Blauvelt's papers to show what he based his entry on Hersh, again as- to confirm or disprove specific allege- , Vivian Gornick including his wife. But the complica- - tiona. The focus is on what was said or tions of Kennedy's medical regime suming what has to be proved, writes of Blauvelt that "his evidenci, what- done at a specific event—did Lieu. , were best covered by Richard Reeves, tenant Calley kill people- at My who rightly said that health, not sex, ever it was, no longer exists." (Did Spalding destroy the old man's files as was Nixon covering up Watergate, did ' was the real Kennedy secret. The Pres- Noriega run drugs? Like many inves- - ident was taking cortisone for his Ad- well as the marriage record?) Hersh never bothers to ask why tigative reporters, he is not so good at dison's disease (cortisone is a libido analysis, or even at writing." HE does booster) and penicillin for his recur- Spalding, a minor Kennedy hanger-on, would be given so delicate an assign- not see how specific incidents fit into ring venereal disease—a kind of phar- larger patterns or respond to compel- macological merry-go-round. Since he ment. Or, for that matter, why John Kennedy would have handled the mat- ing pressures.' He personalizes situa- was also taking painkillers for his back tions, as if each actor he. studies has and the amphetamines given him by ter. His father knew how to take care of such problems, and regularly did. complete control of the situation he or ifAerasching Firm Max Jacobsoa ("Doctor Feelgood"), she is in. Whole structures of govern- Eye Level ileladmeneer Kennedy was a walking drugstore. He had tried operators for the purpose —men like investigator James McIn- ment disappear while his villains act in el Mem., It was in the matter of Kennedy's erney and the lawyer Jack Miller.' a vacuum. The worst case of this is his Personal essays Lbws sex life that Hersh anticipated scoring treatment of the . his great coup, until it was learned that Joseph Kennedy kept a close eye on deliver -the army Gornick's classic his son's activities through various He has said that the Kennedys were mploration alter the records of Kennedy payments to stub about humus traveling spies and caretakers, and it is obsessed with Castro, and with their krpgins en rich relationship with her silence Marilyn Monroe were forged. own political future, and he acts as if metaphor and He cannot give up on Monroe, but he impossible that a wedding would have escaped his close surveillance. (The the crisis did nothing to affect or alter ,‘ vivid detail." is as vague in most of his allegations as those obsessions. "4 work of deeply idea that the wedding might have been —Mahe Kay the writers who preceded him. The Hersh suggests that the debates of honest self•esamina- a spur-of-the-moment madcap adven- Blakely, one first-hand account of a tryst he the Executive Committee, tapes of • The ftrrion tion, powerfully can produce comes from the useful WOhrn and impotti- which have just been published, were a Charles Spalding (of whom more 'Spoto, Marilyn Monroe, pp. 489-496, b4e to put down." and James W. Hilty, Robert Kennedy: charade. Since Kennedy had to activate — .At heart this is • later), who claims he saw Monroe at book ... to bona, —Annear Kolodny. Brother Protector (Temple University Hyannis Port But Monroe's most reli- • - the seams of The liromexl. Reveew Press, 1997), pp. 243-249, 552-557. 'Benjamin C. Bradlee, able biographer, Donald Spoto, work- Conversations bemoans onmelf.- of Baokt Norman Mailer, who did so much to with Kennedy. (Norton, 1975). p. 165: ing with the calendars of both parties, —Mary HiWti10111C. popularize the myth of Robert Ken- "[The President] advised out of the 0-0070.7123-e says that Kennedy met Monroe only The New York liana pspNera Ill CO nedy's affair with Monroe, breezily blue, 'You ought to get yourself cut!" , Book Review three times, setting aside her famous told a TV interviewer that he included the allegations against Kennedy to 'Hersh often fumbles toward the right appearance at his birthday party, and word without getting there. He writes - 0-1070.7091-2 they had sex only once, on March 24, please an editor who wanted to sell ltItO more books—"I needed money very "evocative or when he means "simi- 1962, in Palm Springs, , as lar to," or "surfeited with" for "flooded . badly' p. 553). Monroe said. All other specific claims with," or 'unprecedented" for "unpar---- a s eaa.oaat aesanw era s for their meetings are impossible 'Time, interviewing Spalding to check alleled,". or "invoking counterinsur-. chronologically and geographically.' Hersh's story, found that the "short-. gency" for "engaging in," or !Unilater- Hersh, of course, also assumes that term-memory loss" was "apparent." ally" for 'autornatically.7.,;::„ - He denied to Time that he was sent Robert Kennedy had an affair with 'For similar analytical limitation in the to silence Monroe. Kennedy, he says, work of investigative reporter Bob sent him to see how she was doing. :EACON. 'Donald Spoto, Marilyn Monroe: The Woodward, see Joan Didion, "The Time, November 17, 1997, p. 45. Biography (HarperCollins, 1993), pp. Deferential Spirit," The New York Re- 486-489. 'Hilty, Robert Kennedy, p.253. view, September 19.1996, pp. 14-19. 6 The New York Review the tape recorder, he and his brother Lion of a man bitterly hated in the a good case that attitudes toward as- OUTSTANDING were speaking for the record while the South for his civil rights activities as sassination were more casual in the rest were being given make-work to attorney gerteraL Most sensible people CIA and in the White House than peo- SCHOLARSHIP keep them from interfering with the would resent the nepotism. The Dem- ple have realized—not only in the case real and only actors, the Kennedy ocratic Party would surely resist being of Diem in but of Castro dur. brothers: treated as a personal fiefdom. And ing the Bay of Pigs invasion. A former ,A .Militaiy History In one move, Kennedy isolated Bobby was more useful at Justice, view was that the CIA undertook the of Ireland those men who could lead a public where he could deal with J. Edgar murder of Castro only as part of Oper- Hoover from a position of law enforce- Thomas Bartlett charge against his stewardship of ation Mongoose after the invasion of state and left them to debate in ment. Only a man who has lost what- the Bay of Pigs had failed. Hersh more Keith Jeffery, Editors private, while he and his brother ever political sense he may have had probably argues that assassination was `...... i.,:varri:iniredisi • struggled to reap political gain could take such a scheme seriously. part of the Bay of Pigs scheme. The evraningsrua5s ryfiruzi.- • from a mess that had been trig- The same is true of Hersh's claim government would be decapitated. racial:rani/ as mama -: gered by their obsession with that Johnson, with the help of House This would help explain why the direc- #1fri hirrag ifBritairri Cuba. The Ex Comm members, Speaker Sam Rayburn, blackmailed tor of the operation, Richard Bissell. firivr.nr errepirs. An:alai:1; who included cabinet secretaries his way onto the ticket with Kennedy who was not otherwise stupid, ex- iszry eselotre . gotort and establishment figures such as in 1960, threatening to reveal some pected the landing to work. It would -, F.ireign Affairs-:. 1 1: Dean Acheson, the hard-line for- dark secret if he were not given the also explain why Kennedy refused a ., -CitUrrinito rirririi;!`; mer secretary of state, and Robert job. Actually, of course. Johnson had second air strike. He knew by then frian' ':E.in. ' .`.,.,.7. A. Lovett, the New York lawyer used the blackest secret—the Addi- that the assassination had not been ac- F.4„,,g,,,..4(....,,i, Inc,i. A-64, PoSA: son's disease—in an unsuccessful ef- complished. The closeness with which Frrithe. kahavirieSioVins, Strom and financier, were kept busy q itt4.: plotting air strikes and planning fort to eliminate Kennedy. He was not he monitored the invasion came from Gar. 23sseei, Jaw 11.0hinteier, .. believed. That would hardly make hint fans Childs, AI. Gay, St. Canna*: - invasions. But the real decision- his need to find out how the parts of making was done elsewhere. sanguine about the usefulness of fur- the plan were meshing. Siarnsat i Mrinagir. David W. hi iff es, . ther "revelations." Besides, how cred- F-AL Spiess Virginia Cow.. This assumes, of course, that It is true that Kennedy would engage ible would any such threat be to David Fio!rafrith, Kennedy knew that assassination was Linz,: 0714;s1 in back-channel negotiation with the Kennedy? Johnson could not make to..vio-s : Pape,t1.2Ck 32455 . essential to the plan. The admiration Russians, but the idea that Kennedy is good his threat without defeating the that Kennedy had for his father's ruth- just playing make-believe in the tapes irlie Austio-Prussian War Democratic candidate, incurring his lessness, shown in the handling of his Austria's War Wrth. of the Ex Contra discussions can be en- own party's wrath, and destroying any own career and scandals, was extended Prussia and Italy ,r.... tertained only by someone who thinks future chance he might have at the to the "realism" of Bissell, who would in 1866 •-•-•,-' . :- he was supernaturally crafty and confi- presidency. Rayburn, who is supposed confide the real nature of his plan to a Gotifgrilifawro dent. Whatever he did had to be af- to have joined in this threat, was a de- man of such tough breeding. All this fected by those tense discussions. It is voted Democrat with his own lifelong remains speculative—but at least it is 7...tars is a Wry goad true he brought the missile crisis on Vah, *rile the bar reputation at stake. not half-baked speculation of the sort himself with the plot against Castro. The famous fumbling and half-starts that abounds elsewhere iri the book!' g`At".1,0PO4.7.li" :. But he was in a trap : with options during the night of Johnson's choice It is an astonishing spectacle, this sealed off by the very climate reflected real hesitation on both sides book. In his mad zeal to destroy Cam- -The Journal on:Adroit"- History . he had helped to produce. Hersh's re- and a final calculus, on both sides, of elot, to raze it down, dance on the rub- 62155-9 • Paperback . 505.95 duction of every other aspect of the pragmatic advantage. Johnson had ble, and sow salt on the ground where' crisis, and of everybody else's role ex- good reason to fear any loss of the it stood, Hersh has with precision and Innovation and cept Bobby's, is the extreme case of power he wielded as majority leader method disassembled and obliterated Transformation in "investigative" blinders. in the Senate, and he could not be san- his own career and reputation. - - International Studies guine about good treatment from the Stephen The same weak hold on political re- man he had accused of lying about his sAleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naf- Gill and ality shows up in Hersh's treatment of James H. Mittelman, Editors secret disease. Kennedy had to put tali, drawing on Moscow documents, domestic politics. He is so focused on that affront aside (to Bobby's disgust) write that Castro and the Kremlin This collection of original essays is rise the Kennedy brothers as filling the and focus on Johnson's usefulness for thought that were part first so apiece the relationship between whole scene that he seriously claims the Southern vote. Once again, larger of the invasion plan in 1961, since Cas- theoretical innonrion in international that Bobby was plotting to replace tro's men found pistols wills silencers_ studies and historical transformations. factors were in play than the ambition Lyndon Johnson as his brother's run- and the secrets of the principals— in the CIA's Havana arms cache. See. Contributors: SivIren their book, "One Hell of a Gamble":' Gil/. &sirs ning mate in the 1964 campaign. That which alone seem to interest Hersh. Arra, Craig Murphy. Richard 1 Para. would make no political sense. The Khrushchev, Castro, and. Kennedy, Mnrsapha Pasha. 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