“Suppose the Russians did something now”
-John F. Kennedy, moments after smoking his 3rd joint, in the white house…
JFK’s White house Session
On the evening of July 16, 1962, sitting president JFK sits in the white house war room with extreme back pain. Only months before he is to host a international Narcotics conference at the white house, he makes a tough call…
Hours later, JFK’s admitted lover and family friend Mary Meyer walks into the white house holding a pocket full of sunshine…
Antoinette Pinchot Bradlee, Ruth Pinchot, John F. Kennedy and Mary Pinchot Meyer
“A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers — and this is the basis of all human morality.”
– John F. Kennedy
Mary Meyer arrived at the white house late in the evening, escorted into the war room where JFK was waiting for her. She hands the President 6 prerolled joints and takes a seat…
Lighting the first joint, JFK leans back and blows out a thick cloud of cannabis smoke into the War Room. The President continued to light up and smoke 3 straight joints with Mary joining him, smoking out one of the most powerful rooms in the country…
According to Washington Post executive Jim Truitt: From ‘John F. Kennedy: A Biography’ (2006)
1963 Howell Conant photographs President John F. Kennedy as he smokes a cigarrillo outside his NYC studio
“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility — I welcome it.”
– John F. Kennedy