When US President John F Kennedy met with Conservative British Prime Minister Harold McMillan in June 1963, Kennedy told MacMillan, as an aside, that if he didn’t have sex every day he got a blinding headache. On later recounting this to his private secretary, what did McMillan say in response?
Answer: ‘Gracious me, I’d rather have the headache.’
Source: Harold MacMillan by Alistair Horne; General Historical Tests
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