May 19, 1962 –
Democrats staged a fund-raiser in New York’s Madison Square Garden that was billed as a birthday salute to President John F. Kennedy on this date.
JFK thanked Marilyn, saying, “I can now retire from politics after having had ‘Happy Birthday’ sung to me in such a sweet, wholesome way.” It takes a certain kind of balls, and a major addition to pain killers, to have your mistress, Marilyn Monroe, performed a sultry rendition of Happy Birthday to You in front of your wife and the nation.
The Haus of Dcaligari 