Kennedy Wives: Triumph and Tragedy in America's Most Public Family (42 page)

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Rose appears with Dinah Shore on
Dinah’s Place
, 1972.
© 1972 NBC Television/Public Domain

After Bobby’s death, Ethel dedicated her remaining years to preserving his legacy and continuing his causes. Here, Ethel sits next to the 2003 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Awards, which were awarded to three people from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers on Capitol Hill on November 20, 2003.
Matthew Cavanaugh/Gannett News Service

Vicki Kennedy attends the signing of President Obama’s health care bill, which many consider the culmination of her late husband Ted’s legacy, at the White House in March 2010.
Pete Souza/White House

Vicki Kennedy attends the groundbreaking ceremonies for the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Boston on April 8, 2011. Edward Kennedy Jr., Ted and Joan’s oldest son, looks on.
Steven Senne/Associated Press

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———.
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Index

Ace of Clubs
, 7

Aerosmith
, 280

Afghanistan
, 194

African Americans
, 86
, 151

alcohol abuse
, 71
, 73–74
, 151
, 241
, 249–50
, 255–57
, 266

Alcott, Louisa May
, 232

Allied Forces
, 37–38

Alsop, Joe
, 176

Altman, Lawrence
, 288–89

Ambassador Hotel
, 117–18

ambassadorship
, 11
, 23–26
, 28–30
, 62
, 208

Americana collection
, 179

America’s Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
(Bradford)
, 131

America’s Queen Mother
, 48

Anouilh, Jean
, 140

anti-discrimination bill
, 241

appendectomies
, 24

Arlington National Cemetery
, 58
, 121
, 202
, 204
, 249

assassinations: of JFK
, 52–54
, 104–6
, 109–10
, 198–203
, 239–41
; other victims with RFK
, 118–21
; of RFK
, 57–59
, 109–10
, 118–21
, 248–49

attorney general
, 100

Auchincloss, Hugh D. (“Hughdie”)
, 131
, 133

Auchincloss, Hugh D., III (“Yusha”)
, 132–33
, 139–40

Auchincloss, Jamie
, 195

Auchincloss, Janet
, 53
, 151
, 163–64
, 184
, 195

Auchincloss family
, 133–35
, 142–43
, 149

Avedon, Richard
, 47

Avery, Isaac
, 176–78

Ayer, A. J.
, 102

Bacon, Constance
, 262

Baldridge, Tish
, 173
, 184
, 187–88
, 194

ballet performance
, 187–88

Barry, Bill
, 118

Bartlett, Charlie
, 142
, 147
, 160
, 186
, 201

Baruch, Bernard
, 153

Baumgartner, Rudolf
, 210

Bayh, Birch
, 241–42

Bayh, Marvella
, 241–42

Bay of Pigs
, 190–91

beach cottages
, 22–23

Beals Street house
, 10–11
, 13
, 62

Beardsley, Mimi
, 185

Beaverbrook, Lord
, 223
, 225

Beck, Dave
, 98

Bedford-Stuyvesant Redevelopment Corporation
, 125

Bell, Upton
, 283

Bennett, Candy
, 214

Bennett, Harry Wiggin Jr.
, 211–12
, 220–21

Bennett, Virginia Joan.
See
Kennedy, Joan

Bennett, Virginia Joan (“Ginny”)
, 211
, 213
, 259

Bergquist, Laura
, 171
, 182

Bernstein, Leonard
, 146

Bessette, Lauren
, 283

Betts, Henry
, 50–51

Billings, LeMoyne (“Lem”)
, 18
, 48–49
, 148–49
, 158
, 166

Black Jack.
See
Bouvier, John Vernou, III

Black Watch Highlander Regiment
, 201–2

Blanch, Lesley
, 192

Bobby.
See
Kennedy, Robert Francis

Boggs, Corinne (“Lindy”)
, 180–81

bone cancer
, 258

Boudin, Stephane
, 180

Bouvier, Caroline Lee
, 128–35
, 142
, 149
, 167
, 184
, 192
.
See also
Canfield, Caroline Lee; Radziwill, Caroline Lee

Bouvier, Jacqueline (“Jackie”): birth and background of
, 128–36
; Black Jack as spending less time with
, 133
, 135
, 138–39
; college living with de Rentys
, 139
; Husted engagement to
, 142
, 144
; “Inquiring Photographer” job
, 143–44
; JFK appreciating book smarts of
, 148
; JFK dating
, 142
, 147
; JFK’s engagement and marriage with
, 44
, 150
; Kennedys and first impressions of
, 149
; as never marrying JFK if poor
, 150
; serene appearance of
, 130
; similarities and differences of JFK and
, 147–48
; 16th Annual Vogue Prix de Paris and
, 141–43
; as society party girl
, 140
; as talented writer
, 141
; travels of
, 139–42
, 184
, 189–90
, 196
; Vassar College and
, 136–38
, 140–41
; Vogue career of
, 141–43
.
See also
Kennedy, Jacqueline; Onassis, Jacqueline

Bouvier, Janet.
See
Auchincloss, Janet

Bouvier, John Vernou, III (“Black Jack”)
, 185–86
; alcohol abuse and
, 151
; death of
, 164–65
; declining fortune and stress of
, 138–39
; Jackie spending less time with
, 133
, 135
, 138–39
; Janet divorces
, 130
; Janet marrying
, 128–29
; Park Avenue Apartment of
, 129
; as scoundrel and philanderer
, 129

Bouvier, John Vernou Jr. (“The Major”)
, 128–29
, 138

Bouvier, Maude
, 138

Bouvier, Maude Sergeant
, 128

Bouvier, Michelle
, 138

Bradford, Sarah
, 128–39
, 143
, 150
, 168
, 176
, 184

Bradlee, Ben
, 185–86
, 205

brain cancer and surgery
, 262
, 286–89

Brannack, Ann
, 71–72
.
See also
Skakel, Ann (“Big Ann”)

Brannack, Joseph
, 71–72

Brannack, Margaret
, 71

Bronxville mansion
, 20–21
, 30

Buchwald, Art
, 83
, 101

Buckingham Palace
, 27
, 36

Buck Island Reef
, 276

Bunche, Ralph
, 86

Burden, Carter
, 120

Bush, George W.
, 296

calcining plants
, 79

call girls
, 185

Camelot theory
, 203

“Campaign Wife
,” 170

Campbell, Judy
, 286

Campbell, Lillian
, 269

Canadian Association for Retarded Children
, 56

Canfield, Caroline Lee
, 164
.
See also
Bouvier, Caroline Lee; Radziwill, Caroline Lee

Canfield, Mike
, 151
, 164

Canterbury
, 73

careers
, 2
, 8
, 12–13
, 30
, 61
, 125
; Jackie’s Vogue
, 141–43
; RFK and
, 91
, 93–94

Carter, Jimmy
, 65
, 260
, 296

Cassini, Oleg
, 172
, 175

Catholicism
, 4–5
, 58
, 70–71
, 76
, 125
, 168

Cavanaugh, John
, 53
, 222

Chamberlain, Neville
, 26
, 28

Chappaquiddick
, 61–62
, 253–55

charities
, 44–45
, 62
, 122
, 124–25
, 183–84

Chellis, Marcia
, 213

Cheshire, Maxine
, 114
, 162
, 259–60

chief counsel
, 97–98

child care.
See
hired help

childhood, of Jackie
, 128–35

The Children Hundreds
, 87–88

children’s book
, 282

Christina
, 63
, 196

circus
, 25
, 99–100

civil rights movement
, 110–11
, 189
, 197
, 241
, 274

Clinton, Bill
, 296

Cohn, Roy
, 93–94
, 97

Coit, Margaret
, 153–55

Cold War
, 189

college boyfriends
, 214

college dedication speech
, 216

Columbia Trust
, 8

Columbia University
, 82

Communism
, 86–87
, 97

Connally, Nellie
, 198

Conover, Harry
, 215

Cosby, Bill
, 294

Coughlan, Robert
, 64

Craig House
, 32

creative writing
, 141

Cremmen, Mary
, 84

crime, organized
, 97–98

Cuba plots
, 110

Cuffe, Luan Peter
, 69

curators
, 178–79

Curley, James Michael
, 8

Curtis, Charlotte
, 136

Cushing, Richard
, 195
, 202
, 238
, 247

Dallas, Rita
, 50–51
, 53

Dallas, Texas
, 197–99

Darden, Colgate
, 86

David, Lester
, 69
, 80
, 86
, 218

Davids, Jules
, 161

Davis, Sarah
, 108–9

The Death of a President
(Manchester)
, 130
, 205–6
, 240

Debutante of the Year
, 135–36

de Ganay, Paul
, 140

de Gaulle, Charles
, 49
, 188
, 191

demerit book
, 81

Democratic National Convention
, 162
, 244
, 267
, 290–92

Democratic Party
, 45
, 149
, 157
, 197

de Renty, Claude
, 139–40

de Renty, Guyot
, 139

Deshmukh, Vivek
, 289

de Vilmorin, Louise
, 140

Devonshire, Duke and Duchess
, 36–37
, 54

disabilities
, 11
, 14–15
, 56
.
See also
mental illness

Doherty, Gerard
, 228

domestic life
, 223–24

Drake, Sue
, 89

drug possession
, 123–24

drunken-driving arrests
, 258
, 261–62

du Pont, Henry F.
, 170
, 179

Dutton, Fred
, 114

Edward Devotion School
, 14

Eisenhower, Dwight D.
, 95
, 177
, 190

Eisenhower, Mamie
, 170–71
, 176
, 204

Eliot, T. S.
, 211

Elizabeth II, Queen
, 150

English aristocracy
, 27

equestrian
, 131–33

eternal flame
, 202

Ethel.
See
Kennedy, Ethel; Skakel, Ethel

Ethel
, 124–25

EthelBird
, 107

“Ethel Year After: Still Herself” (Flynn)
, 122–23

Eunice.
See
Kennedy, Eunice

Europe
, 37–38
, 139–42

European war
, 28–29

Exner, Judith Campbell
, 185

fashion
, 20
, 43
, 198
; Jackie’s sense of
, 141
, 147
, 167
, 170
, 172
, 175
, 198

Fay, Paul (“Red”)
, 157

FBO film studio
, 18–19

FDR.
See
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Fiddle and Faddle
, 185–86

Film Booking Offices of America
, 14

film industry
, 13–14

Fine Arts Advisory Committee
, 179

Fine Arts Committee for White House
, 178–79

Finkelstein, Mel
, 98

Finley, David
, 179

Finney, Ruth
, 237

Fisher, Eddie
, 216
, 244

Fitzgerald, Agnes
, 6–7

Fitzgerald, John Francis (“Honey Fitz”)
, 2
, 4–8
, 42
, 230

Fitzgerald, Josie
, 2–4

Fitzgerald, Rose Elizabeth
, 2–8
, 54
, 58
.
See also
Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald

Fitzwilliam, Peter
, 40

Flynn, Betty
, 122–23

Ford, Tennessee Ernie
, 283

Fore River Bethlehem Ship Building Corporation
, 11–12

Fore River Lunch Company
, 12

France
, 62
, 167–68

Frankenheimer, John
, 117

Freeman, Walter
, 32

fundraisers
, 122
, 125
, 178

Galland, Bob
, 111–12
, 115–19

Gallup Poll
, 123

Gargan, Ann
, 48
, 50–52
, 62

Gargan, Joey
, 253

Gargan, Mary Jo
, 44

Gates, Ellen (“Puffin”)
, 133–34

gays
, 143

George Washington University
, 140–41

Germany
, 28

Gershwin, George
, 212

Giancana, Sam
, 185

Gibson, Barbara
, 101–2

Gifford, Frank
, 124

Ginny.
See
Bennett, Virginia Joan

Glenn, John
, 101

Glen Ora
, 184–85
, 193

Gonzales, Harold
, 268–69
, 276

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