My date with President Kennedy: “He was like a 14-year-old high school football player on the make” — salon.com

Before Jacqueline Bouvier came along, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Margaret Coit dated John F. Kennedy, a young senator who would become the 35th president of the United States a few years later. This historian’s little-known oral history at the JFK Library provides a first-hand acount of what it was like to date the enigma known as Jack Kennedy. This is an excerpt from “When Lions Roar: The Churchills and the Kennedys,” by Thomas Maier.

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