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November 14, 2005
JFK Story
Last night Marilyn and I saw Dan Fenn speak at athe Lexington Historical Society event. Fenn is a longtime Lexington resident, a former staffer for JFK, and Founding Director of the Kennedy Library. He told some very amusing JFK stories I had never heard, including this one:
Nikita Khrushchev presented JFK with a beautiful hand-made model of a sailing ship. The FBI and Secret Service went over it with a fine tooth comb to make sure it didn’t conceal any bugs, after which the President put it in a place of prominence in his office. But presidential aide Kenny O’Donnell was never quite convinced that the ship was “clean,” so every time he walked past it he would lean into it and whisper loudly: “Screw You Nikita!”
Posted by rickbeyer at November 14, 2005 08:40 AM
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