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Very Presidential with Ashley Flowers

John F. Kennedy: The Playboy

Very Presidential with Ashley Flowers

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Society & Culture

4.610.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The youngest president ever elected had a golden boy aura, but his legacy is down-right salacious. Sex, drugs, near-fatal illnesses… JFK was a womanizer whose ego almost started a nuclear war. To view this episode’s full list of sources, please visit parcast.com/verypresidential Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi guys, I'm Ashley Flowers and if you've heard my podcast Crime Junkie or Supernatural,

0:10.1

you might know me as a true crime lover.

0:13.2

But there's another interest of mine that I'm excited to share with you guys and depending

0:18.5

on who we're talking about, there's even a little true crime ask in there too.

0:22.9

If you grew up in the U.S., you probably grew up with this image of the former presidents

0:28.0

as these serious, dignified, insanely boring old men who never had any fun in their lives.

0:35.8

And there's a reason this is all the history books tell us because the truth is, well,

0:41.9

it's embarrassing for the country and almost too wild to believe.

0:46.7

The White House has been full of scandals, secrets, drama and even a little bit of true

0:51.9

crime from the very beginning.

0:54.4

And the more you learn about what was really going on in the Oval Office, the more you'll

0:59.4

have to wonder, how did we make it this far?

1:13.5

Welcome to very presidential, a podcast original.

1:17.2

In this podcast, I'm going to be looking at 15 presidents who'd be on the Mount Rushmore

1:22.3

of Bad Behavior.

1:23.9

And today, I'm starting off with one of the most beloved presidents in American history.

1:30.0

John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

1:32.4

In less than three years, JFK was involved in more scandals than most people could hope

1:37.2

for in a lifetime.

1:38.9

He basically turned the White House into the Playboy mansion, accidentally slept with

1:43.0

not one, but two spies met with foreign leaders in a drug-addled haze and nearly started

1:49.5

a nuclear war because he wanted to look good in the press.

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