Reply #29: You are missing a major point about it...POSH rules in the executive branch

[Solo_in_MD]

If a supervisor in the executive branch of the Federal Gov even *thought* that way about an intern working for them, they would be run out of civil service without a pension. Every year the executive branch including the DoD go though mandatory training on ethics and prevention of sexual harrassment (POSH) . Its hard to lead effectively when you ignore the rules you are responsible for enforcing. That is why doing a Whitehouse intern was just not "private behavior". It would have been much eaiser for all concerned had it been someone outside the government.

IIRC, Kirk never romanced a suborndiate.