Caroline Kennedy Visits Ireland For JFK Anniversary: Rumored Lover, Teen Intern Made Private Phone Calls To Former President While On Historic Ireland Trip During Likely Affair

Caroline Kennedy met with relatives and Irish officials this weekend to celebrate the 50th anniversary of former President John F. Kennedy's trip to Ireland, but old interview transcripts reveal the politician had private phone conversations with a former intern and rumored lover while on his trip.

Barbara Gamarekian, who was deputy to press secretary Pierre Salinger in JFK's administration, provided details of an alleged affair between the former president and a 19-year-old college intern in an oral history for the Kennedy Library, which CNN obtained copies of.

Gamarekian suggests that there were several "cute, young, attractive" interns who had a "special relationship" with the president and that one of them had private phone conversation with Kennedy while he made his historic Ireland trip - she complained about not getting a day off of work back in Washington.

"We had a young girl in the office who was working for us for the summer. She was a college student. She was left back in Washington along with an older woman in the office who had been left in charge of the office with one other girl and the rest of the press office staff were on the trip," Gamarekian said during the interview, according to CNN.

"He (the President) had gotten a phone call from Mimi, the little girl who had been left back in the United States who was in tears and very upset because the older woman in our office, Helen Gans, had not permitted her to leave that Friday off and that if the President were back in Washington, Dave said, Helen Gans would be fired this very instant. Dave was very upset about it and conveying all kinds of excitement to Pierre about it."  

"I thought it was utterly asinine to think that he would get upset about a little girl in the office who wasn't able to get Friday off, that he was ready to fire someone."

Gamarekian continued the interview mentioning that Kennedy had a special relationship with that intern, sparking rumors of a hidden love affair.

"To be able to place a call through the White House switchboard to Ireland from the United States and to get through directly to the President to make her complaint was a little unusual. It isn't that easy, normally to get the President on the phone," Gamarekian added.

But JFK's rumored love affairs weren't the focal point of Caroline Kennedy's Ireland visit.

Caroline Kennedy, who is JFK's last remaining living child, joined Irish politicians, residents and relatives to light an eternal flame that came from Kennedy's grave in Arlington Nation Cemetery, according to ABC News. 

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