10 Hilarious Pranks Pulled Off By U.S. Presidents

5. John F. Kennedy Was A Mean Trickster:

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John F. Kennedy had a good friend named Lem Billings. Billings went on a trip to France where he met Greta Garbo, and carried on about it to the point of telling Kennedy that he and Garbo were “an item.” Kennedy decided his friend deserved to be set up.

He arranged a dinner at the White House for himself, Jackie, Billings, and Garbo. Kennedy arranged for Garbo to arrive early and informed her of his scheme and her role was to pretend she had never met Billings before. When Billings showed up, and enthusiastically greeted his new love, she only responded with an ice-cold, “I have never seen this man before.” It was, for the most part, an awkward dinner, while Billings pleaded and desperately tried to remind Garbo of their time together. Garbo regarded Billings as if he were a being a nuisance. Kennedy, the unrepentant prankster, even pretended to offer suggestions, asking Billings if he might have met Greta Garbo’s double.

Poor Lem Billings.

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