Jackie Kennedy Desperately Wanted to Hide News of the Pot Growing in Her Cape Cod Garden: Book

Jackie Kennedy was horrified to discover decades ago that marijuana plants were growing in the garden at her Cape Cod home, a new book reports.

She desperately, as Fox News quipped, wanted to nip the problem "in the bud."

An aide discovered the pot plants sometime around 1975 after she noticed the "teenaged Kennedy cousins rummaging through Jackie’s garden," according to an excerpt of Kate Storey's new book "White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port," published in Town & County.

"Why is there a big bunch of weeds here?" aide Kathy McKeon thought to herself, Storey recounts in the book. "This flower bed is always so well taken care of."

McKeon reportedly blew the whistle on the pot to retired police chief Jack Dempsey, who often hung out at Hyannis Port in the Secret Service trailer.

Dempsey confirmed the plants were marijuana, then headed off to tell Kennedy.

But McKeon beat him to it, reportedly blurting out to her boss: “Madam, we just found marijuana growing in the flower patch!”

The former First Lady was mortified, according to the book.

"Are you kidding me?" she reportedly said. "Oh, my God, this can’t get out. How are we going to fix this?"

When Kennedy discussed the problem with Dempsey, he told her: "Just ignore it … we'll pull it," the book claimed.

A relieved Kennedy responded: "Good… I don't want this to get out."

The plants were ripped up later that same day, according to Storey.

Dempsey and the Secret Service didn't believe the gardeners were responsible for the pot plants.

And Caroline and John were "too young to have had anything to do with it, and nobody told Rose, Ethel, or the other mothers," the book reported.

“I wasn’t one of those tattletales; I wouldn’t go and tell on them, no, no,” said McKeon.

Neither the John F. Kennedy Foundation nor a representative for Caroline Kennedy, America's ambassador to Australia, immediately returned a request from Fox News for comment.