CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY OCTOBER 23, 2026
THERE’S A NEW BOOK OUT. IT’S CALLED “LADIES MAN: THE CARELESS HEART OF JOHN F. KENNEDY.”
WE’VE KNOW ABOUT KENNEDY’S VARIOUS AFFAIRS AND ADULTERIES FOR YEARS, BUT IN THIS BOOK BY LAWRENCE LEAMER, WE LEARN MORE THAN WE EVER KNEW AND ONCE AGAIN ASK WHY AND HOW THE MEDIA WOULD COVER-UP SO MUCH OF THIS TO PROTECT KENNEDY?
LEAMER INTERVIEWS MANY OF THE WOMEN STILL ALIVE. IT IS SORDID STUFF, SO I WILL SPARE YOU MOST DETAILS.
ONE WOMAN SAID KENNEDY TOLD HER HE LOVED HER MORE THAN JACKIE. THIS WAS ALLGEDLY SAID WHILE JACKIE WAS PREGNANT.
THERE REMAINS AN IDOLATROUS FEELING ABOUT THE KENNEDY FAMILY, ESPECIALLY THE MEN. STARTING FROM THE PATRIARCH, JOE KENNEDY, AND RUNNING THROUGH VIRTUALLY ALL MALE KENNEDYS, THERE WAS A VIOLATION OF MARRIAGE VOWS AND IN JFK’S SITUATION, A CARELESS ATTENTION TO NATIONAL SECURITY. ONE OF HIS WOMEN, JUDITH EXNER, WAS ALSO HAVING AFFAIRS WITH CHICAGO GANGLAND MEMBERS.
I DOUBT THE MEDIA WILL PAY MUCH ATTENTION TO THE BOOK, EXCEPT PERHAPS CONSERVATIVE MEDIA. BUT CHARACTER MATTERS, IN ALL OF US, ESPECIALLY IN A PRESIDENT. I’M CAL THOMAS.
Question why the media would cover up so much to protect Kennedy? It would be easy to flip that script in ways Mike Johnson would not like when he refused to swear in Adelita Grijalva. As you say, character matters across the board, with JFK, Clinton, and Ken Paxton (who may be bringing about the previously unthinkable possibility of electing a Democrat in Texas).