Kennedy Wives: Triumph and Tragedy in America's Most Public Family (37 page)

180–81
.
“the inspiration that [Jackie] was”:
Boggs, JFK Oral History, p. 13.

9. Life at the White House, and Away

182.
To welcome three-year-old Caroline:
Hill,
Mrs. Kennedy and Me
, p. 46.

182.
“She is going to have to . . . treat her differently”:
Perry,
Jacqueline Kennedy
, p. 70.

182–83
.
“It is partly because . . . all bad for her”:
Leamer,
Kennedy Women
, pp. 539–41.

183.
“Some of the most enduring images of the Kennedy years”:
Smith,
Grace and Power
,
p. 110.

183.
“She usually had her youngsters . . . great shock to me”:
ibid., p. 106.

183.
The playgroup was run cooperatively:
ibid., pp. 106–7.

183.
By the fall of 1962, the nursery:
Perry,
Jacqueline Kennedy
, p. 71.

183–84
.
“Jackie was not ready to . . . most public and important functions”:
Leamer,
Kennedy Women,
p. 531.

184.
in Jackie’s first year at the White House:
Heymann,
A Woman Named Jackie
, p. 268.

184.
Janet Auchincloss, Rose, Ethel:
Smith,
Grace and Power
,
p. 111.

184.
“mostly alone or with the children”:
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 201.

184.
Nancy Tuckerman remembered Jackie:
Tuckerman & Turnure, JFK Oral History, p. 12.

184.
Glen Ora was a seven-bedroom:
Heymann,
A Woman Named Jackie,
p. 268.

184.
“Middleburg was just plain boring . . . press hated Middleburg”:
Hill,
Mrs. Kennedy and Me
, p. 49.

184.
The two spent ten thousand dollars on everything:
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 152.

185.
“Kennedy had affairs . . . call girls paid by Dave Powers”:
Dallek,
Unfinished Life
, p. 476.

185.
“You were on the most elite”:
Sabato,
The Kennedy Half-Century
, ch. 6.

186.
As they passed the secretary . . . Pierre Salinger’s aides:
ibid.; Dallek,
Unfinished Life
, p. 477.

186.
“I think that Jack . . . not what she needed”:
Leamer,
Kennedy Women,
p. 538.

186.
“[Jack] never wanted to have the . . . sort of light”:
Kennedy,
Historic Conversations
, First Conversation.

187.
“a mixture of cabinet and friends from New York . . . walked around, puffing
his cigar:
ibid.

187.
“Best parties I’ve ever attended . . . prettiest and the nicest”:
ibid.

187.
“They set a feeling of warmth . . . attractive people and pretty surroundings”:
Baldridge-Hollensteiner, JFK Oral History, p. 29.

187.
She arranged a performance:
Smith,
Grace and Power
,
p. 237.

188.
It was through Malraux:
ibid., p. 275.

188.
“A logistical nightmare”:
Hill,
Mrs. Kennedy and Me
, p. 95.

188.
“One of the worst headaches”:
Baldridge-Hollensteiner, JFK Oral History, p. 23.

188.
“including Tish Baldridge’s staff”:
Hill,
Mrs. Kennedy and Me
, p. 96.

188–89
.
“We had to have [the Marine Band]”:
Baldridge-Hollensteiner, JFK Oral History, pp. 24–25.

189.
“It just so happened that . . . part of her master plan”:
Hill,
Mrs. Kennedy and Me
, p. 97.

189.
And she was abroad a lot:
Perry,
Jacqueline Kennedy
, p. 76.

190.
United States forces managed to rescue:
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 192.

190.
“Within the privacy of his office” . . . crying in his bedroom”:
Dallek,
Unfinished Life
, p. 366. (Jackie is referring to Jack’s 1954 back surgery.)

191.
“I do not think it altogether inappropriate”:
Hill,
Mrs. Kennedy and Me
, pp. 71–72.

191.
“Thanks in large part to Jackie”:
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 197.

191.
“If you want war”:
ibid., p. 198.

191.
“He savaged me . . .
impervious to his charm”:
ibid.

191.
“I think [Jack] was quite depressed . . . worse than he thought”:
Kennedy,
Historic Conversations
, Fifth Conversation.

192.
“I’d just read
The Sabres of Paradise
”:
ibid.

192.
“And by God, we were back”:
ibid.

192.
“Every move, every comment”:
Perry,
Jacqueline Kennedy
, p. 89.

10. Patrick

194.
“Tucky” and Jackie had known each other:
Perry,
Jacqueline Kennedy
, pp. 167–68.

194.
She prepared scrapbooks:
ibid., p. 169.

195.
The four-pound, one-ounce boy:
Heymann,
A Woman Named Jackie
, pp. 385–86.

195.
“She was devastated . . . in such emotional pain”:
Hill,
Mrs. Kennedy and Me
, p. 246.

195.
“which seemed to boost”:
ibid.

195.
“With press photographers snapping . . . around them all the time”:
ibid., p. 248.

196.
Those in attendance again:
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 253.

196.
And so, with Kennedy’s blessing:
ibid., p. 255.

11. Dallas

197.
Further, the Democratic Party:
Dallek,
Unfinished Life
, pp. 691–92.

197.
“Two years ago I introduced myself . . .”:
Perry,
Jacqueline Kennedy
, p. 177.

198.
“Mr. President”:
ibid.

198.
Turning to look at her husband:
Dallek,
Unfinished Life
, p. 694.

198.
“She was reaching for something . . . piece of the president’s head”:
Hill,
Mrs. Kennedy and Me
, p. 291.

198.
“My God! They have shot his”:
ibid.

198.
“Jack,” she said. “Jack, what have”:
ibid., p. 292.

199.
“She still hadn’t said a word, but”:
ibid., p. 293.

12. Aftermath

200.
“She and I spoke for nearly . . . after he was hit”:
Heymann,
A Woman Named Jackie
, p. 418.

201.
“I saw myself in the mirror . . . should have kept the blood on”:
Swanson,
End of Days
.

201.
“I’m not going to”:
Smith,
Grace and Power
,
p. 443.

202.
“I don’t want the church . . .”
ibid., pp. 443–451.

202.
Robert McNamara convinced:
ibid., pp. 443–51.

202.
“Her face covered . . . did not know about at the time”:
ibid., pp. 453–54.

202.
When Hannan read passages . . . handed her his handkerchief:
ibid., p. 454.

202.
“fifty air force and navy jets”
:
ibid., p. 457.

203.
“Only bitter old men write . . .
political theory or political science”:
Heymann,
A Woman Named Jackie
, p. 418.

203.
“That’s when she came out . . .
‘Don’t let it be forgot . . . known as Camelot’ ”:
ibid., pp. 418–19.

203.
“was a misreading of history”:
ibid., p. 419.

13. The Many Lives of Jackie Kennedy

204.
“I don’t have much to live for“:
Smith,
Grace and Power
,
p. 457.

204.
She also served:
Perry,
Jacqueline Kennedy
, pp. 190–91.

205.
After years of attempting:
ibid., p. 192.

205.
Jackie was present when:
ibid.

205.
Jackie worked closely with:
ibid., pp. 192–93.

205.
“There won’t be one shred of his . . . snooping through those rooms now”:
ibid., p. 194.

206.
Many Americans thought less:
ibid., pp. 195–96.

206.
Though the $200,000 a year:
ibid., p. 187.

206.
“Jackie and Ari did . . . love of Greek mythology”:
ibid., p. 197.

207.
“He was dynamic . . . But fascinating”:
Haslam, Nicky, “The Real Lee Radziwill,”
New York Times
, February 7, 2013.

207.
After a court battle:
Leamer,
Kennedy Women
, p. 689.

208.
Caroline became a lawyer:
Perry,
Jacqueline Kennedy
, p. 199.

Part IV: Joan

1. The Music

211.
“Those are some of my . . . those are poignant memories”:
Author interview, April 3, 2014.

211.
Her father, Harry Wiggin Bennett:
Chellis,
Living with the Kennedys
, p. 20.

211.
Joan was educated in Catholic schools:
www.mville.edu/about/fast-facts.html.

211.
She was a solid seamstress:
David,
Joan: The Reluctant Kennedy
, p. 28.

211.
“My father was an . . . when I was about ten”:
Kennedy,
Joy of Classical Music
, ch. 1.

212.
“If the radio wasn’t on . . . to go out in the evening”:
ibid.

212.
“The radio and the phonograph . . . which seemed limitless”:
ibid.

213.
“When I heard the velvety”:
ibid.

213.
“I had Joan and Candy . . . not to do it again” She hung the brush . . . girls to behave:
Palm Beach Post
, “Ugly Duckling,” http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1964&dat=19690401&id=5r4iAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZrUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4757,35313.

213.
“I sensed that . . . mother was an alcoholic”:
Chellis,
Living with the Kennedys
, p. 21.

213.
“Both parents were drinkers . . . doesn’t exist”:
Tarraborrelli,
Jackie, Ethel, Joan
p. 83.

213.
“Just her presence . . . felt terrible for her”:
ibid., p. 84.

214.
“It struck me as odd”:
ibid.,
p. 83.

214.
“I called them Harry”:
Kennedy,
Joy of Classical Music
, ch. 1.

214.
“I had as cloistered a background . . . much like myself”:
Peters, William, “Teddy Kennedy,”
Redbook
, June 1962.

214.
“I was a loner . . . I was a late bloomer”:
Chellis,
Living with the Kennedys
, p. 22.

214.
In fact, she had so:
Kennedy,
Joy of Classical Music
, ch. 2.

215.
“Have I got a girl . . . God’s gift to the modeling business”:
David,
Joan, The Reluctant Kennedy
, p. 44.

215.
“She had fine facial”:
ibid.,
pp. 44–45.

215.
Joan was booked by:
Palm Beach Post
, “Ugly Duckling.”

215.
Jones noted that Joan:
David,
Joan, The Reluctant Kennedy
, p. 45.

215.
“float a little more . . . light on her feet”:
ibid., p. 47.

215.
Joan’s first modeling:
ibid., p. 46.

215.
Joan got jobs in print:
ibid., p. 45.

215.
“She was one of those rare . . . Ingrid Bergman when she was Joan’s age”:
ibid.

215.
“Television was in its infancy . . . landed a few jobs”:
Kennedy,
Joy of Classical Music
, ch. 2.

216.
“I was also one of the gang . . . saddle shoes and poodle skirts”:
ibid.

216.
“Drinking Coke for a national . . . ‘Don’t you burp, young lady!’”:
ibid.

216.
“It was Jack, not me”:
Kennedy,
True Compass
, p. 117.

216.
“I was totally unimpressed . . . castle with the nuns”:
Clymer papers.

217.
“Then I couldn’t go”:
Clymer,
Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography
, p. 22.

217.
“I arrived at the party with not one but two dates”:
David,
Joan
,
The Reluctant Kennedy
, p. 50.

217.
Now, months later, Jean:
ibid.

217.
“I’ll never forget that . . . darn good-looking”:
ibid.