Summersby, Kay (1908–1975)

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Summersby, Kay (1908–1975)

Irish paramour. Name variations: Kay Summersby Morgan. Born 1908 in Co. Cork, Ireland; died 1975.

Was the chauffeur, and claimed to be the wartime mistress, of Dwight Eisenhower in her book, Past Forgetting: My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower (1976), though she admitted that the affair did not go beyond kissing; also wrote Ike Was My Boss (1948).

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