Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life With John F. Kennedy (60 page)

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

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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.

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.