98 “What appealed to Jackie”: Radziwill interview.
98 “true to her self”: Mellon, Met Catalogue, p. 14.
98 Less obvious was the model: Mellon, p. 225.
98 Although Paul was naturally: Richard interview; Mellon, p. 270; Paul Fout interview.
98 “She has a moat”: Baldrige interview.
98 Both Paul and Bunny consulted: Mellon, pp. 342–43.
98 “fluffs and frills”: Whitehouse interview.
98 “At dinner they would talk”: Murray interview.
99 “You don’t need to shout”: Charles interview. Oatsie Leiter Charles noted that the friendship of Paul Mellon and Dorcas Hardin “went on for years. Dorcas was one of my closest friends, but we never talked about it.”
99 “What does Bunny use”: JBK to Janet Felton, ND, courtesy of Janet Felton Cooper.
99 Bunny worked with Jackie: JKWH, pp. 138–40; Bowles, Met Catalogue, p. 22.
99 “lugubrious Victorian palms”: Bowles, Met Catalogue, p. 22.
99 She often supplied: Bunny Mellon interview, WMP; Crespi interview.
99 “six different sets”: Cooper interview.
99 Bunny installed her favorite: Lawrence Arata OH.
99 In this instance, she looked: Baldrige interview; Crespi interview.
99 “it was a cultural friendship”: Marella Agnelli interview.
99 “Little Egypt”: Francesca Stanfill, “Jayne’s World,” Vanity Fair, January 2003.
100 “the most immaculate man”: Thomas Hoving, Making the Mummies Dance, p. 90.
100 A polo-playing ladies’ man: Stanfill, Vanity Fair, January 2003.
100 With a net worth of: RK to Helene Arpels, June 2, 1952, JPKP.
100 “Jayne, come over here”: Manno interview.
100 “her face twitches”: Cecil Beaton, The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them (Beaton I), p. 84.
100 Boudin headed Jansen: NYT, Apr. 1, 1961; Bowles, Met Catalogue, p. 24.
100 “Jayne consulted Boudin”: Manno interview.
100 Jayne first met: Khoi Nguyen, “Gilt Complex,” Connoisseur, September 1991.
100 a pound of caviar: Lucius Ordway to JPK, Nov. 26 (no year given), JPKP.
100 “Jaynie” once helped: RK to children, Aug. 18, 1955; Jayne Wrightsman to JPK, Mar. 31 (probably 1946), JPKP.
101 when Joe was about: Charles Wrightsman to JPK, Jan. 13, 1958, JPKP.
101 “who knows—she may”: NYT, Apr. 1, 1961.
101 During his visit: Manno interview.
101 “I’m still in a glow”: JBK to Jayne Wrightsman, May 1959, JFKL.
101 Having worked on: Bowles, Met Catalogue, p. 24; Abbott and Rice, p. 53.
101 “trained as an interior”: Martin Filler, “A Clash of Tastes at the White House,” NYT Magazine, Nov. 2, 1980.
101 “eye for placement”: Bowles, Met Catalogue, p. 25.
101 “to represent the United States”: NYT, Apr. 1, 1961.
101 “friendship”: ibid.
101 “primary visionary”: Bowles, Met Catalogue, p. 24.
101 Chattering and sharing: West, p. 243; Manno interview.
101 “a wife in name only”: Manno interview.
102 “La Maison Blanche”: Wrightsman to JBK, Apr. 5, 1961, JFKL.
102 Even so, Parish threatened: Abbott and Rice, pp. 83, 157, 163; Cooper interview.
102 “say this tactfully”: Cooper interview.
102 Du Pont was irked: Abbott and Rice, p. 35.
102 “I shudder to think”: du Pont to Wrightsman, Nov. 22, 1961, Winterthur Archives.
102 During his White House: Cooper interview.
102 he took placement: Docent’s commentary, Winterthur.
102 “fresh and vigorous”: Lorraine Pearce to du Pont, Dec. 13, 1961, Winterthur Archives.
102 to undo du Pont’s scheme: ibid.
102 Jackie often rearranged: Abbott and Rice, p. 39; Lord, p. 231.
102 “Mr. du Pont was rigid”: Susan Mary Alsop interview.
102 “You are a wonder man”: Wrightsman to du Pont, July 7, 1961, Winterthur Archives.
102 “each ‘little touch’”: JBK to du Pont, April 1962, Winterthur Archives.
102 “Mrs. Kennedy juggled”: Ketchum interview.
102 “As the elder statesman”: Lord, p. 231.
103 “that could survive the marauding”: Cassini II, p. 304.
103 Joe Kennedy bought: Janet Des Rosiers to John Ford, Dec. 5, 1952, JPKP.
103 “They didn’t even own”: Walton interview, JCBC.
103 whose passion for art: Richardson, p. 120, quoting publisher Charles Scribner III, a fellow Princetonian, who read Billings’s senior thesis on Tintoretto: “That familiar enthusiasm was matched by solid scholarship, elegant and altogether passionate prose, and an extraordinary degree of art historical sophistication and range of insight from an undergraduate. . . . It might easily have been written by a young Bernard Berenson or Kenneth Clark. It revealed a genuine talent and dimension in Lem that I found deeply moving.”
103 “he really had no idea”: Harlech OH.
103 “he liked the door knocker”: Janet Auchincloss OH. The observation was made by the interlocutor, Joan Braden.
103 “Do you think we’re prisoners”: ibid.
103 “paintings of water”: JBK to Fletcher Knebel, ND (for use in Knebel, Look, Jan. 17, 1961), Fletcher Knebel Papers, Boston University.
103 At Jackie’s urging: Knebel, Look, Jan. 17, 1961; AH, p. 98.
103 “did a lot of terrible”: AH, p. 99.
103 “he had no gift”: ibid.
103 “he was really very visual”: Mary Lasker OH-CU.
103 “You can tell by the boards”: Halle OH.
103 “Furniture classes sprung up”: Dickerson, p. 68.
104 JFK took to stopping: Lorraine Pearce interview with Steven O’Connor, University of Delaware, summer 1994.
104 “John F. Kennedy’s feeling”: Walton, p. 51.
104 “every morning for something”: Walton OH.
104 Together Walton and Kennedy: ibid.; JKWH, p. 104.
104 a Citizens Committee to Save: WS, May 10, 1961.
104 “I want you to remember”: Walton OH.
Chapter Ten
106 who had been with: DOAP, p. 409.
106 “She won’t need much”: West, p. 198.
106 “with words alone”: Gallagher, p. 209.
106 “a little puffed up”: Truitt interview.
106 “Mommy,” not “Mummy”: Bergquist manuscript for profile of Jackie Kennedy, ND, Laura Bergquist Papers, Boston University.
106 “She usually had”: Ketchum interview.
106 “She was a remarkable mother”: Wilson interview.
106 As a surprise for: Caroline Kennedy, The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, p. 31.
106 “a tremendous sense”: Ketchum interview.
106 “Let’s go kiss”: Bergquist manuscript for profile of Jackie Kennedy, Laura Bergquist Papers, Boston University.
106 “so happy, so abandoned”: West, p. 217.
106 “a quality that seems to”: Bergquist manuscript for profile of Jackie Kennedy, Laura Bergquist Papers, Boston University.
106 In her quest to: Truitt interview; Elizabeth Boyd interview; Hass interview; Wilson interview.
107 “Jackie thought it would be more”: Wilson interview.
107 But JFK promised: Hass interview.
107 For the first four months: WP, Sept. 8, 1961; Anne Mayfield interview.
107 the following fall she was joined: NYT, Sept. 20, 1962; Jaclin Marlin interview.
107 Jackie designed: West, pp. 217–18; Gallagher, p. 132.
107 “as the average medium- to high”: Sidey I, p. 96.
107 “Jack Kennedy with children”: Truitt interview.
107 three-clap summons: Bishop, p. 38.
107 “a man who all his life”: Rostow OH.
108 “with an air of businesslik
e”: Charles Heckscher memo, June 19, 1963, Schlesinger Papers, JFKL.
108 “I always heard back”: Baldrige I, p. 180.
108 “a slender butterfly”: Hugh Sidey, Chester V. Clifton, and Cecil Stoughton, The Memories: JFK, 1961–1963 (Sidey II), p. 83.
108 She continued to keep: West, p. 202.
108 “She was determined”: Baldrige interview.
108 Jackie had breakfast: Gallagher, p. 99; AH, p. 279; JKWH, p. 239.
108 After pushing John: JKWH, p. 23; Cooper interview; Bishop, p. 38; West, p. 217; AH, p. 521.
108 She avoided the White House pool: Baldrige interview.
108 she believed that she: JKWH, p. 231.
108 At first she had toyed: Ketchum interview.
108 But like her predecessors: ibid.; JKWH, p. 232; Gallagher, p. 130.
109 eleven rooms including: William G. Allman, White House Curator, to author, Apr. 1, 2003; Abbott and Rice, p. 146; Manchester II, p. 5.
109 “an average Park Avenue tycoon”: ATD, p. 665.
109 At the west end: Bishop, p. 58; Abbott and Rice, pp. 146–48; DOAP, p. 547; Manchester II, p. 6.
109 specially designed Tiffany bookplates: Gallagher, p. 181.
109 A door on the north side: Abbott and Rice, pp. 152, 155–56.
109 The Kennedys had their own: Traphes Bryant, Dog Days at the White House, p. 45, for a diagram of the White House second-floor layout.
109 The immediacy of: ATD, p. 665; DOAP, p. 619.
109 “without the slightest embarrassment”: CWK, p. 151.
109 “the last guests [were] bidding”: DOAP, p. 619.
109 “like the Lubianka!”: JKWH, p. 100.
110 “a way of letting sunlight”: Wilson interview.
110 “the heart of the White House”: JKWH, p. 251.
110 Jackie usually spent: Baldrige I, p. 185.
110 “I want to live my life”: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis OH, John Sherman Cooper Oral History Project, University of Kentucky.
110 She had a light lunch: JKWH, p. 232; Gallagher, p. 103; West, p. 203.
110 “fifty to one hundred”: Jacqueline Bouvier, “Fashion-Question 2,” Vogue Prix de Paris application, May 21, 1951, Vogue Materials, JFKL.
110 120 pounds, according to Oleg: Cassini interview. At first Cassini balked when asked the weight of his most famous client, whose measurements he meticulously recorded. But when Tish Baldrige—who was six inches taller than Jackie—guessed 140 pounds, Cassini replied, “With all due respect, that is ridiculous. Jackie was at most 120 pounds.”
110 “She was very slim”: ibid.
110 “with the rigor of a diamond”: Baldrige I, p. 182.
110 If Jackie added: ibid.
110 a barrel-shaped gold cigarette case: NYHT, Apr. 12, 1961.
110 “She was always smoking”: Crespi interview; Walton OH.
110 The landmark surgeon general’s: CWK, p. 234.
110 Few outside the Kennedy circle: Bishop, p. 99.
110 “newly lit cigarettes”: Gallagher, p. 233.
111 “take furtive puffs”: Lawrence O’Brien, No Final Victories, p. 56.
111 Afternoons for Jackie: Bishop, p. 101; Gallagher, p. 174.
111 Camouflaged by a head scarf: Baldrige I, p. 179.
111 “she had a way of rendering”: Truitt interview.
111 Jackie rarely held: Baldrige I, p. 185; Ketchum interview; Cooper interview.
111 “For others she insisted”: West, p. 195.
111 “never saw her dealing”: Lady Bird Johnson to author, June 7, 2001.
111 Tish Baldrige never accepted: Baldrige I, p. 186.
111 “ears pinned back”: Heckscher OH.
111 “The President came”: Ymelda Dixon interview.
112 “Saint Bird”: Baldrige I, p. 183.
112 “little-girl quality”: Lady Bird Johnson to author, June 7, 2001.
112 “to reinvent the White House”: Baldrige I, p. 185.
112 “I was lying through”: Gamarekian interview.
112 when he told June Havoc: NYT, Feb. 28, 1961; WP, Mar. 1, 1961.
112 For all of Jackie’s surface: Gallagher, p. 120.
112 “She gets pressured”: Baldrige interview.
112 “I want Jackie to feel”: Baldrige I, p. 186.
112 “stiffness, even shyness”: Bergquist manuscript for profile of Jackie Kennedy, ND, Laura Bergquist Papers, Boston University.
112 the nails that she would pick: Crespi interview; Baldrige interview.
112 “She would get terribly down”: Baldrige interview.
112 It took vigorous physical: Eve Fout interview.
112 “great steep hills”: NYT, Jan. 14, 1962.
112 “watch the water”: Jacqueline Bouvier to Yusha Auchincloss, Jan. 14, 1943, courtesy of Yusha Auchincloss.
112 “I love them both”: ibid.
113 “People would pull up stakes”: Ketchum interview.
113 “the most private place”: JBK to Eve Fout, July 1962, courtesy of Eve Fout.
113 Glen Ora: JKWH, p. 225.
113 Jackie preferred the verdant: JBK to Roswell Gilpatric, June 13, 1963, quoted in WP, Feb. 10, 1970.
113 “comfortable and unpolished”: AJ, p. 294.
113 Jackie and Sister Parish organized: JKWH, p. 226.
113 Jackie belatedly discovered: Cassini I, p. 49, quoting JBK to Cassini, Feb. 17, 1961.
113 Bit of Irish: NYHT, Mar. 25, 1961; Time, Jan. 26, 1962; Eve Fout interview.
113 tourists peered through: West, p. 216.
113 “Jackie wanted her kids”: Eve Fout interview.
113 “giving them baths”: JBK to Eve Fout, ND (probably July 1962), courtesy of Eve Fout.
113 She could buy a cup: Eve Fout interview; Whitehouse interview; Time, Mar. 24, 1961.
114 “I do not consider myself”: JBK to Eve Fout, ND (probably July 1962), courtesy of Eve Fout.
114 The two weekdays: Baldrige interview; Eve Fout interview.
114 “to be out with people”: Eve Fout interview.
114 “There isn’t anything to do”: JBK to JPK, Aug. 15, 1957, JPKP.
114 Jackie was passionate: Eve Fout interview; Nicoll interview; Whitehouse interview.
114 “There is a kind of religious”: Cassini interview.
114 “very, very good”: Whitehouse interview.
114 “knocked unconscious”: Kitty Slater, The Hunt Country of America, p. 145.
114 Jackie had known Eve: Eve Fout interview.
115 “she walked like a duck”: Paul Fout interview.
115 “sticking your neck out”: JBK to Eve Fout, Sept. 17, 1960, courtesy of Eve Fout.
115 “She liked homework”: Ketchum interview.
115 “freshened her up”: Eve Fout interview.
115 “hunt country hangers-on”: Ben Bradlee interview.
115 JFK liked to visit the Mellons: Billings OH.
115 “The whole reason for Glen Ora”: Paul Fout interview.
115 “He looked like Ichabod”: Ben Bradlee interview.
116 he had an array of specialists: Dallek, Atlantic Monthly, December 2002.
116 JFK’s regimen of strong: ibid.
116 Kennedy’s day began: ATD, p. 664; KE, p. 371; Newsweek, Feb. 27, 1961; Bishop, pp. 6–7.
116 “a short soak”: Newsweek, Feb. 27, 1961.
116 He ate a hearty: JKWH, p. 63.
116 One morning when Ken Galbraith: AJ, p. 44.
116 Following a round: Newsweek, Feb. 27, 1961.
116 “He was a slow starter”: Ward OH. The comment was made by Walt Rostow, the interlocutor.
116 “It was part of his therapy”: Powers OH.
117 his black fifty-three-year-old valet: Bishop, p. 4.
117 “the stumpy walk”: ibid.
117 After changing into: Bishop, p. 57; ATD, p. 665; AH, p. 267.
117 “changed Jack’s whole life”: LBJ phone conversation with JBK, WH 6401.01, Jan. 9, 1964, LBJL.
117 specially mad
e from cattle-tail hair: Janet Travell OH.
117 Heads of state had to: Philip de Zulueta to Harold Macmillan, June 13, 1963; de Zulueta to McGeorge Bundy, June 19, 1963; Bundy to de Zulueta, June 20, 1963, PRO.
117 “Such a chair”: NYT, Mar. 22, 1961.
117 Sometimes JFK instructed: AJ, p. 334.
117 “most restless man”: Nancy White memo, Feb. 14, 1963, Theodore White Papers, Harvard University.
118 “seems to have a life”: Manchester II, p. 9.
118 “his gingerly walking”: Sorensen interview.
118 “bend to pick up”: Alphand, p. 373.
118 “asked me to pick up”: ibid., p. 382.
118 Kennedy asked her to crack: CWK, p. 169.
118 “strange sitting positions”: Fay, p. 111.
118 finally he instructed: CWK, pp. 99–100, 128.
118 He was similarly incapable: NYT, Feb. 20, 1961; CWK, pp. 209–10.
118 changing his shirt: AH, p. 267.
118 In the evenings: CWK, p. 52; KE, p. 29.
118 His major indulgence: Charley Bartlett to JFK, ND, recommended “small Dutch Upmann cigars,” Bartlett Papers, JFKL; Holborn interview, WMP; Cassini II, p. 324; KE, p. 28; AH, p. 188.
118 “He could chain smoke”: Ben Bradlee, Newsweek, Dec. 2, 1963.
118 Kennedy enjoyed small-stakes: Billings OH.
118 “I’ve got some reading”: JKWH, p. 248.
118 “All our family are light”: JPK interview, WMP; Manchester II, p. 95.
Chapter Eleven
119 When he was a senator, his: KE, p. 66.
119 “Kennedy takes printer’s”: Manchester II, p. 38.
119 JFK read so many: ibid., p. 82; KE, pp. 310–11; Sidey II, p. 3.
119 “as though they were his”: Holborn interview, WMP.
120 “What happened to Snowball?”: Laura Bergquist to James Ellison, ND, “Kennedy—Very Casually,” Laura Bergquist Papers, Boston University.
120 “play editor”: ibid.
120 “You ought to cut Rocky’s”: CWK, p. 74.
120 gave him tidbits: ibid., p. 134.
120 “read leaks”: Sidey interview.
120 “spot special prejudices”: Sidey II, p. 3.
120 “The American ship”: Stewart Alsop to Martin Sommers, Jan. 16, 1962, Alsop Papers, LOC.
120 “That’s a great thing”: CWK, p. 224.
120 “thumbnail sketch”: White to RFK, Mar. 17, 1961, White Papers, Harvard University.
120 unlike the Eisenhower White House: Salinger OH.
120 But one staff member: Nancy Dutton interview.
120 “intellectual politician”: ibid.
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