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Christopher Hitchens liked guys, hated JFK

Christopher Hitchens lets rip on everything from the JFK assassination to Bill Clinton‘s appetite for hash brownies in his upcoming memoir, “Hitch-22.”

The Post’s Kyle Smith reports that Hitchens still agonizes over his beloved mother Yvonne’s sordid 1973 suicide in a Greek hotel room. “She was the cream in the coffee, the gin in the Campari, the offer of wine or champagne instead of beer, the laugh in the face of bores and purse-mouths and skinflints,” he writes in the rollicking memoir, due out June 2 from Twelve Books.

The British expat vividly remembers boarding school, where 13-year-old Hitch blamed John F. Kennedy for nearly starting a nuclear war over the Cuban missiles: “I shall never forget where I was standing and what I was doing on the day [Kennedy] nearly killed me.” Hitchens adds, “When Kennedy was shot the following year, I . . . felt no particular sense of loss at the passing of such a high-risk narcissist. If I registered any distinct emotion, it was that of mild relief.”

While at boarding school, Hitchens enjoyed love affairs with several boys. Of one, a guy named Guy, he writes, “Were poems exchanged? Were there white-hot and snatched kisses? Did we sometimes pine for the holidays to end? Yes, yes and yes.” Even in his Oxford years, Hitchens mainly pursued young women, but allows that “a mild and mildly enjoyable relapse would sometimes occur.”

One girl he dated, a lesbian who occasionally frolicked with men, also dated fellow student Bill Clinton, then a Rhodes scholar. Hitchens believes Clinton ratted out American students who participated in anti-Vietnam protests to the London desk of the CIA.

Clinton indeed did not inhale at Oxford, Hitchens confirms: “He preferred, like many another marijuana enthusiast, to take his dope in the form of large handfuls of cookies and brownies.”