The Secrets of Camelot

The 29th of this month marks the th anniversary of the birth of our 35th president, John F.

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Until a couple of years ago, I had no idea that John Kennedy rejected Lyndon Johnson barely two hours before he picked him as his running mate. He and his brother, Robert, had falsely assumed for months that Johnson didn't want the Veep spot. But when JFK suddenly realized Johnson was in fact lusting for the job, he and his brother batted it around, but decided they really didn't want Johnson.

The issue was trust. Still, they needed a way to placate the powerful Texan if they didn't pick him, but failed to find it. As Bob Kennedy ruefully put it, "We came up with the idea of trying to get rid of him … and it didn't work. These bits of history are hardly deep, dark secrets. They have been hiding in plain sight for decades, mostly at the Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, an amazing collection of some 25 million pieces of paper and more than 1, detailed oral histories.

He was both a privileged insider and sometimes an active participant in the events he describes.

Secrets of Camelot Revealed. The Sinking of PT There are so many secrets surrounding the lives and deaths of President John F.

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Kennedy and actress Marilyn Monroe. This novel reveals astonishing answers to these secrets! Kennedy stop his Torpedo Boat PT in the midst of the hazardous Japanese shipping lanes known as the Tokyo Express, where it would be sunk by a collision with a Japanese destroyer? Ever since the investigation of the C. Robert McNamara, who had been deeply implicated himself, carefully refrained from trying to blame the secret warriors assigned the job. But assassination, McNamara insisted, ''I never heard of. I just can't understand how it could have happened.

But Kennedy loyalists have been amazingly successful in selling the McNamara line to historians. Somewhere among the winks and nods and grumbles of Presidential irritation must have been born an ember of conviction among high officials of the C. The historians Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, in their exhaustive recent history of the missile crisis, '' 'One Hell of a Gamble,' '' typically write that the Kennedy brothers ''had pushed the C.

That word of doubt sticks in the wolverine's craw, and in effect inspires Hersh to dig up additional evidence, including a specific claim that the man first in charge of anti-Castro operations, the late Richard Bissell, told one of the men who helped him, William Harvey, that it was the President himself who instructed him to establish an ''executive action capability'' for killing foreign leaders.

Hersh's new evidence includes a modest contribution from me. Hersh asked me a year or two ago if I'd learned anything new; when I told him that a former C. According to notes obtained by Hersh, Harvey met on Jan. Hersh has also learned that in , while the assassination efforts involving Mafia hit men were still under way, Bobby Kennedy was assigned his own operational officer in the C.

Ford's job was to handle contacts with Mafia chiefs while traveling under the pseudonym of Rocky Fiscalini, a name along with Ford's own that appears in Bobby Kennedy's office logs for But what Ford actually did for Kennedy remains unknown. Hersh provides no definitive history of the C. But he has dug up numerous pieces of new information, many of them significant for any serious history even if they fall short of being sensational headline material. His account of the C. This is not shocking.

The basic facts, if not all the details, have long been known by those who desired to know. But it is painful to read about assassination planning by the very man whose murder was probably the greatest single traumatic event in American history. Painful in a different way is Hersh's new material about the President's sexual life.

Marilyn Monroe we can forgive, just as we would forgive Antony Cleopatra. But Hersh describes many other affairs, some casual, some extended, with named individuals. His best material comes from a woman not named but not hard to identify, who describes what it felt like to be one of Kennedy's girls from the first rush when she was a year-old Radcliffe student Kennedy was 40, married and running for President to a bittersweet, postcoital moment the evening before his inauguration, when a chance comment made it clear Kennedy had no idea that a man he was considering for a high-level job was her father.

She stuck it out for another two years, kept conveniently nearby with a ''make-work White House job dealing with international affairs,'' until a sense of being used finally persuaded her to break off. She learned two things, passed on to Hersh: This and similar stories make poignant a remark to Hersh by Jackie Kennedy's personal secretary, Mary Gallagher, that the First Lady sometimes asked her to call the President's secretary to inquire whether his schedule permitted spending the evening with him. But the President did not simply have affairs, according to Hersh.

Several Secret Service men assigned to guard the President told Hersh he had a taste for bimbos, girls brought in off the street by friends acting as procurers; that he liked cavorting naked with such women in the White House pool, that friends often joined him, and sometimes his brothers Bobby and Teddy as well. Secret Service men described to Hersh a night of drunken debauchery when state policemen guarding the front of the house thought the wild cries coming from the pool might be an invasion of coyotes.

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The women were introduced as stewardesses from a European airline, but who they really were the Secret Service men had no idea. This single tableau, including much I have not described, manages to cast a pale and bilious light over everything that's wrong with politics, sex, California, swimming pools, drinking after dinner and all else that slips out of control once men feel they are invulnerable. The obvious question is: Can we trust the reporter who fell for the Marilyn papers?

Two aspects of the reporting life suggest an answer. The first is that the truth never arrives neatly wrapped. Reporters must fight for every scrap of information or confirmation, and after all the hard work casual readers may airily dismiss the result as lacking a smoking gun. Reporters dream of finding the perfect witness, who knows all and wants to tell all, or the treasure-trove of documents -- all that secret paper that the C.