Finally, I am indebted to Michael Beschloss for his illuminating Introduction and comprehensive annotations, which benefit this book tremendously.
—CAROLINE KENNEDY
CREDITS
Senator John F. Kennedy
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Campaigning
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The Election
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Inauguration
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Travel Abroad
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JFK quip in Paris. NBC Universal Archives
Meeting in Vienna
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Family Life
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., the most distinguished historian of his time, was also renowned as a Public Intellectual and a political activist. Author of more than twenty-five books, he was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize. The eloquence, insight, and power that characterized his style continue to influence the generations of historians who follow him. Arthur Schlesinger was the author of major biographies of Andrew Jackson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as well as John and Robert Kennedy, books that significantly defined the modern presidency. He served as Special Assistant to the President during the Administration of John F. Kennedy.
Caroline Kennedy is the author/editor of eight bestselling books on constitutional law, American history, politics, and poetry. A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School, Kennedy is the Vice Chair of the New York City Fund for Public Schools. She is the President of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
Michael Beschloss has been called “the nation’s leading Presidential historian” by Newsweek. He is the author of nine books, including, most recently, The Conquerors and Presidential Courage and two volumes on Lyndon Johnson’s presidential tapes. He is a graduate of Williams College and the Harvard Business School and holds five honorary degrees, as well as an Emmy award. He is a regular commentator on the PBS NewsHour. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and two sons.
COPYRIGHT
Transcription of taped conversations is almost always an art, rather than a science, and the most reliable source for exactly what Jacqueline Kennedy and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., said to each other in the spring of 1964 is the accompanying audio version, which has been digitally re-mastered, but not altered. In order to make the transcript as comprehensible for the reader as possible, and in the style of other published oral histories, we have deleted some interjections and broken phrases where they interrupted the flow of the conversation, but only where such changes would not alter the meaning.
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