Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life With John F. Kennedy
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diary of, xxii
and FDR, 58
JFK seen as too young by, 31n47, 57, 82, 88
and JFK's inauguration, 153
and White House, 134, 137, 138n35, 145, 155, 173
Tuchman, Barbara, The Guns of August, 43n8
Tuckerman, Nancy, 169–70n71
Turkey, U.S. missiles removed from, 236n7
Turnure, Pamela, 170, 173, 174
U
U-2 planes, 182n9, 262n53, 264n55, 266
Udall, Stewart, 121, 123
UNESCO, xvii
U.S.S. Essex, 184n14
U.S. Steel, 256–58
U Thant, 255
V
Valenti, Jack, 274n75
Vanier, Georges, 221
Vanier, Pauline, 221
Vargas, Alberto, 205n57
Venezuela, 198, 200
Versailles, 224, 227
Vienna, meetings in, 112n6, 198, 233, 234
Vietnam:
and France, 64–65n45, 238n12
and Kennedy administration, 272, 305, 308–9
and Laos, 201–2, 272
Vietnam War, 110n3, 272n68, 274n73
VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America), 343–44n67
W
Waldrop, Frank, 64n44
Walker, John III, 131n29
Wallace, George, 259n48
Walton, William, 127n27, 203n53, 207
Warner, Caroline and Mary, 334
War on Poverty, 343–44n67
Warren Commission, xxv
Warren, Earl, 153n55
Washington, D.C., historic preservation in, xvii, xxvii–xxviii
Washington Times-Herald, xx, 158n61, 308
Webster, Daniel, 48n19
West, J. Bernard, 134n32, 172, 173–74
Wheeler, Janet, 153
Whig party, 47n17, 253
White, Byron "Whizzer," 321n48
White, Theodore H.:
interviews with, xiii
The Making of the President, 1960, 250n34
White House:
Blue Room, 143
daily life in, 126, 155–58, 333–34, 337–38, 343
donations to, 175
entertaining in, 203, 212, 326, 328–29, 330
Fine Arts Committee for, xvi, 138n36, 173n76, 212n71
First Ladies in, 131–33, 140, 141
guidebook, The White House: An Historic Guide, 136, 138, 139, 141, 173, 326
Hickory Hill seminars in, 251, 252–53
Jacqueline's office in Treaty Room, 168–69, 171, 248n31, 258–59, 348–49
kitchen of, 212
legislative breakfasts in, 278–79, 281–82
Lincoln Bedroom, 135, 155
memories of, xx, 126–27, 140, 141, 145
Nobel laureate dinner in, xxx, 227n92
Oval Office, 136, 138n38
performances in, xvi–xvii, xxx, 330
and presidency, see presidency
pressure of living in, 25, 126, 127, 202–3, 263
privacy lacking in, 126, 202
private quarters in, 160, 204, 239n16, 278–79
restoration of, xvi–xvii, xxviii–xxix, 86n19, 130–31, 135, 137–38, 143n42, 188n21, 212n71, 227n92
Rose Garden, 212n71
school held in, 334n60, 335
staff of, 331–33
state visitors to, 205–6, 211–13, 224, 237–43
as symbol, xvi–xvii, 247n29
televised tour of, xxviii, 139, 141n39
tours of, 131, 139, 141, 326
Truman Balcony, 137, 138n35
and White House–itis, 174–75
White House Historical Association, xxvi, 86n19, 138n37, 173n76
Whitney, John Hay "Jock," 156
Wiesner, Jerome, 316
Wilson, Edmund, Patriotic Gore, 43n9
Wilson, Harold, 214
Wilson, Philip, 16
Wilson, Woodrow, 50
Wirtz, Willard "Bill," 90
women:
at bandage rolling, 76
feminists, xxvi, xxix, 170
First Lady, 141
journalists, 99
and power, 305–7
roles of, xxix, 58–59, 241–43, 348
Women's Press Club, 341
World War II, and postwar Germany, 201n49
Wrightsman, Charles, 188, 228
Wrightsman, Jayne, 188, 228
Y
Yarborough, Don, 90n25
Yarborough, Ralph, 89–90
Z
Zsa Zsa (rabbit), 332n57
SOURCE NOTES
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xx "tall thin young congressman": Carl Sferrazza Anthony, As We Remember Her (HarperCollins, 1997), p. 37.
xx "across this great crowd": Charles Bartlett oral history, John F. Kennedy Library.
xx "a spasmodic courtship": Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life (Little, Brown, 2003), p. 193.
xx "start to cry again": JBK to Lyndon Johnson, January 9, 1964, transcription of recording of telephone call, in Michael Beschloss, Reaching for Glory (Simon and Schuster, 2001), p. 22.
xxi "his acid wit": New York Times, March 1, 2007.
xxi "I return your letters": JBK to Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., December 3, 1963. JBK letters cited here and below appear in her still-closed papers at the Kennedy Library and, in most cases, in the archives of the recipients.
xxi "much on my mind": American Archivist, Fall 1980.
xxii "a matter of urgency": Ibid.
xxii "thousands" of people: New York Times, April 6, 1964.
xxiv "an historian of the twenty-first": American Archivist, Fall 1980.
xxiv "From time to time": Ibid.
xxv "flighty on politics": Journal of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., July 19, 1959, Schlesinger Papers, New York Public Library.
xxvi "nobody wonders": John F. Kennedy at Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce breakfast, November 22, 1963.
xxvii "pass a law": David Finley, memorandum of conversation, February 19, 1962, Finley Papers, National Gallery of Art Archives.
xxvii "ripped down": JBK to Bernard Boutin, March 6, 1962.
xxvii "practically nothing": White House History, #13, 2004.
xxvii "Hold your breath": JBK to David Finley, April 18, 1962.
xxvii "may be the only monument": Time, November 20, 1964.
xxviii "would walk halfway": JBK to Edward Kennedy, September 17, 1970.
xxviii "early Statler": Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer, Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years (Little, Brown, 1971), p. 93.
xxviii "my predatory instincts": JBK to Adlai Stevenson, July 24, 1961.
xxviii "ran a curio shop": JBK to Lady Bird Johnson, December 1, 1963.
xxviii "the setting in which": A Tour of the White House, CBS-TV, February 14, 1962.
xxviii "a New England sitting room": New York Times, January 29, 1961.
xxix "She was a worker": Lady Bird Johnson oral history, Kennedy Library.
xxix "What has been sad": Ms. magazine, March 1979.
xxix "It is the major temple": JBK to John F. Kennedy, handwritten, undated, 1962.
xxix "Egyptian rocks": Richard Goodwin, Kennedy Library Forum, November 4, 2007.
xxx "remind people that feelings": JBK to JFK, memorandum entitled "Abu Simbel," handwritten, undated.
xxx "excruciating": Look, November 17, 1964.
xxx "a new life": JBK to David Finley, August 22, 1964.
xxxi "So now he is a legend": Look, November 17, 1964.
xxxi "things I think are too personal": JBK to Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., handwritten, undated, 1965.
xxxi "if I could steel myself": JBK to Lyndon Johnson, March 28, 1965.
xxxi "Close your eyes": U.S. News & World Report, July 26, 1999.
9 "I had publicly endorsed": Ted Sorensen, Kennedy (Harper and Row, 1965), p. 80.
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p; 10 "a stormy meeting": Ibid.
15 "My sweet little house": Gordon Langley Hall and Ann Pinchot, Jacqueline Kennedy (Frederick Fell, 1964), p. 141.
18 "I'm going to get in": William Manchester, The Death of a President (Harper and Row, 1967), p. 186.
25 "as if Jack were President of FRANCE": Oleg Cassini, A Thousand Days of Magic (Rizzoli, 1995), p. 29.
27 "a Stevenson with balls": Dallek, p. 259.
32 "You remember in my oral history": JBK to Schlesinger, May 28, 1965. Her first draft was sold at auction in 2009.
42 "treasured friends": Ted Sorensen, Counselor (Harper, 2008), p. 399.
46 "a lot of money": New York Times, December 12, 1996.
47 "I am no Whig!": James MacGregor Burns, John Kennedy: A Political Profile (Harcourt Brace, 1960), p. 268.
48 "He was the only President": JBK to Edward Kennedy, September 17, 1970.
52 "I think you underestimate": JBK to James MacGregor Burns, handwritten, undated, 1959.
55 "forgot Goschen": Winston Churchill, Lord Randolph Churchill (Macmillan, 1908), p. 647.
61 "that I had privately boasted": Sorensen, Counselor, p. 150.
63 "Can I be godfather": Edward Kennedy, True Compass (Twelve, 2009), p. 24.
64 "could see around corners": Anthony, As We Remember Her, p. 60.
69 "Go to Germany": Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years (HarperCollins, 1991), p. 608.
81 "a good Democrat": Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, p. 201.
85 "resting up": Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, p. 103.
85 "renege on an offer": Clark Clifford, Counsel to the President (Random House, 1992), p. 318.
85 "such fun if it had been": James Olson, Stuart Symington (University of Missouri, 2003), p. 362.
86 "How's my little girl": Lyndon Johnson to JBK, December 23, 1963, transcription of recording of telephone call, in Beschloss, Reaching for Glory, p. 18.
87 "Johnson had grabbed'": Robert Kennedy oral history, Kennedy Library.
89 "That doesn't surprise": John Connally, In History's Shadow (Hyperion, 1994), p. 10.
90 "For Christ's sake": Manchester, The Death of a President, p. 116.
113 "the brightest boy": David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest (Random House, 1973), p. 44.
124 "nut country": Manchester, The Death of a President, p. 121.
127 "My life here which I dreaded": JBK to William Walton, June 8, 1962.
131 "if Jack makes it": Letitia Baldrige oral history, Kennedy Library.
138 "The President told me": JBK to David Finley, March 22, 1963.
138 "I must be quite honest": David Finley to JBK, March 27, 1963.
138 "I never dreamed": JBK to David Finley, March 22, 1963.
142 "but there were about a hundred": Sorensen, Kennedy, p. 383.
143 "I've learned more": James Abbott and Elaine Rice, Designing Camelot (Wiley, 1997), p. 86.
143 "Boudin's masterpiece": Ibid., p. 101.
167 "the most private place": JBK to Eve Fout, July 1962, in Sally Bedell Smith, Grace and Power (Random House, 2004), p. 113.
170 "twenty times a day": The Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, April 23-26, 1996 (Sotheby's, 1996).
170 "minimum information": Mary van Rensselaer Thayer, Jacqueline Kennedy, p. 31.
173 "as excited as a hunting": Ibid., p. 318.
173 "Why are some people": JBK to Henry du Pont, September 28, 1962.
184 "Hell, Mr. President": Beschloss, The Crisis Years, p. 122.
189 JFK to Raskin: Interview with Raskin, and Raskin unpublished memoir, both cited in Beschloss, The Crisis Years.
201 "A wall is a hell": Ibid., p. 278.
203 "It is all going to be involved": JBK to William Walton, June 8, 1962.
210 "Obviously she was quick": Sergei Khrushchev, editor, Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Statesman, 1953-1964 (Pennsylvania State University, 2007), p. 304.
211 "You're offering to trade": Beschloss, The Crisis Years, p. 325.
226 "Nous pensons a vous": Manchester, The Death of a President, p. 446.
237 "the worst head-of-state": Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days (Houghton Mifflin, 1965), p. 526.
239 "every weekend since": J. B. West, Upstairs at the White House (Coward, McCann, 1973), p. 235.
242 "Can't you control": Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, p. 28.
247 JBK-Macmillan correspondence: Harold Macmillan Papers, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
256 "interview them all": Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times (Houghton Mifflin, 1978), p. 404.
266 "There's always some": Richard Reeves, President Kennedy (Simon and Schuster, 1993), p. 416.
273 "several glowing references": Sorensen, Counselor (Harper, 2008), pp. 408-409.
277 "the steam really went": Benjamin Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy (Norton, 1975), p. 226.
291 "under American domination": Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, p. 842.
295 "this France, England, America": Manchester, The Death of a President, p. 710.
306 "one sentence": Ralph Martin, A Hero for Our Time (Macmillan, 1983), p. 431.
307 "kicked in the head": Life, May 11, 1959.
332 "leading strings": Schlesinger, A Thousand Days, p. 50.
346 "mentally unsound": Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy, p. 32.
346 "You reduced him": Recording of John F. Kennedy telephone conversation with Governor Edmund Brown, November 7, 1962, Kennedy Library.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
There are many people whose support and encouragement have helped immensely during the preparation of this project. First, foremost, and always to my husband and children for their love, integrity, and interest. I would like to thank the family of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., especially Alexandra Schlesinger, for her gracious enthusiasm; and Bill van den Heuvel for the same wise counsel and joyful outlook that made him such a beloved friend to my mother. I couldn't have completed this project without the help of Lauren Lipani, who read, listened to, and checked every detail along the way.
I am grateful to Tom Putnam, the director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, as well as to the Library's dedicated archivists, Karen Adler Abramson, Jaimie Quaglino, Maura Porter, and Jenny Beaton. The unusual and unfamiliar photos that add so much to this book result from the efforts and expertise of Laurie Austin and Maryrose Grossman. Thanks also to Sharon Kelly, Jane Silva, and Stephen Plotkin for additional research assistance. I am also grateful to Tom McNaught, the director of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation; Rachel Day, for coordinating requests and new technology in connection with this book; and to all the Foundation staff for their commitment to excellence in all they do to strengthen the legacy of my parents.
For their legal and publishing advice and expertise, I would like to thank Bob Barnett, Deneen Howell, Jim Fuller, Tom Hentoff, and Esther Newberg.
People always did their best for my mother, and this project was no exception. She would have been especially pleased that the talented team at Hyperion are all women, including Sharon Kitter, Linda Prather, Kristin Kiser, Jill Sansone, Marie Coolman, SallyAnne McCartin, and Ellen Archer. For their work on the audio restoration and production, I am grateful to Marcos Sueiro Bal, as well as Paul Fowlie and Karen Dziekonski.
I wish my mother could have had the good fortune to work with Gretchen Young, who is exactly the kind of editor she was herself; with Shubhani Sarkar, who has brought creativity and insight to this design; and with Navorn Johnson, who managed this project from beginning to end. For their ongoing wisdom and wise counsel, I would like to thank Ranny Cooper and Stephanie Cutter, and for bringing their expertise and skill to this project, Debra Reed and Amy Weiss.