SWINGERS IN THE LINCOLN BEDROOM Bianca Jagger had met Jack Ford, the son of 38th President Gera

SWINGERS IN THE LINCOLN BEDROOM

Bianca Jagger had met Jack Ford, the son of 38th President Gerald R. Ford, at a New York disco in early summer 1975. Having previously dated Chris Everett and hosted George Harrison at the White House, Ford, then 23 years old, extended an invitation to Jagger. On July 2, 1975, while in Washington DC for a Rolling Stones concert, Jagger, accompanied by her confidante Andy Warhol, visited Ford at the White House. Warhol and Jagger took Polaroids of Ford on the Truman balcony, and, with a costume change for Jagger, Warhol photographed Jagger and Ford in the Lincoln Bedroom, the latter images destined for a long feature on Jagger in Interview. When the photos were made public weeks later, Ford was attacked by the press for allowing Warhol, “the darling of those insecure exhibitionists who make up the jet-set,” into the White House and for posing with his arms around a the waist of a married “swinger” wearing a backless dress in the Lincoln bedroom. Despite Ford’s age and his impeccably wholesome background, claims that the President’s “long-haired” son was “dating” Jagger and led a life of liberal debauchery were highly improbable. The only scandalous moment in the photos is the image of Jagger reclining, with a lit cigarette in hand, on a mid-nineteenth-century, watered silk divan previously owned by a national martyr.