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Mimi Alford: 'We had races with rubber ducks in the bathtub'

In her first television interview [Wednesday night], former White House intern, Mimi Alford tells Rock Center special correspondent Meredith Vieira specific details about her alleged affair with President John F. Kennedy in 1962. In her book, Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath, Alford calls their encounters "sexual and fun." She also calls the President a "sensualist," who also enjoyed being completely silly, especially in the bathtub.

"He had a collection of little yellow rubber ducks and they were in the bathtub and rubber ducks sort of became part of the game," Alford told Vieira.

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