He arguably was something of an abominable human being.
And why not factor in his philandering: His philandering serves to underscore what a detestable person he was.
For example, how does one get around the fact that this man forced a 19-year old White House intern (previously a virgin whom he deflowered on his matrimonial bed in the White House) to perform fellatio on one of his aides - while he watched, incidentally?
JFK displayed his rank arrogance and sense of entitlement in many other ways - what many among the left today would characterize as “white privilege.” His aides related years after his death that he routinely dressed and undressed in front of them as if he were royalty. Even his father acknowledged that neither he nor any of his brothers had a right to complain about anything, as he had satisfied every whim.
His philandering not only was the stuff of legend but also placed the nation's security at dire risk in the Nuclear Age, as his romps with prostitutes ensconced at hotels located near the White House required him to travel through the sewer with his Secret Service detail leading the way with a map and flashlight.
Some of those close to him with knowledge of these escapades have stressed that a response to a Soviet strike would have been seriously delayed, if undertaken at all.
Kennedy left himself open to kidnapping and murder during at least one of these escapades. While attending a state visit to France, he eluded his Secret Service detail to liaison with a prostitute in a Paris apartment complex. He was given the wrong address and went from door, and when this failed he returned to the streets to use a pay phone to reach his press secretary, Pierre Salinger, to secure the right address.
Only someone of unbounded arrogance and self-entitlement would behave this way. And to return to an ealier point his treatment of subordinates and others further down the chain of command was appalling. In fact there is a telephone recording of the President speaking an Air Force public relations officer like a whipped dog for running a story about how the Air Force accommodated his pregnant wife with a well-appointed and equipped room during a trip. He believed that feature article depicted him and his family in a bad light - as royalty.
The officer was subsequently transferred to Arctic Alaska.
Kennedy's stellar image has endured only because his sycophantic staff managed, with the aid of a fawning mainstream media, to perpetuate the Camelot myth after his assassination.
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