Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story (44 page)

“I am a bit…”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Torby MacDonald, John F. Kennedy Library.

“jittery”: Phyllis MacDonald, interview, Massachusetts Historical Society.

“You understand”: Ibid.

“almost homely…”: Jewel Reed, author interview.

expressed astonishment: Betty Coxe Spalding, author interview.

“I don’t know…”: Gunilla von Post,
Love, Jack
(New York: Crown, 1997).

“would have canceled…”: Ibid.

“social-climbing upstarts”: John H. Davis,
Jacqueline Bouvier: An Intimate Memoir
(New York: Wiley, 1996).

John White waved: Betty Coxe Spalding, author interview.

Three

“How perfect…” Jacqueline Kennedy to Ambassador and Mrs. Kennedy, September 1953, Early American History Auctions.

“unbelievably heavenly:” Ibid.

suggested that Jackie: Jewel Reed, author interview.

“What shall I do?”: Ibid.

“only big enough…”: Bill Adler:
The Uncommon Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Portrait in Her Own Words
(Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel, 1994).

“Were you talking about…”:
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy
(New York: Hyperion, 2011).

The ability to laugh at himself: Andrew Devonshire, author interview.

he talked to her more: Betty Coxe Spalding, author interview.

“the only one”: Ibid.

“bored”: Ibid.

“wonderful”: Ibid.

“a substitute for Kick”: Ibid.

“to take any guff”: Ibid.

“a duck with…” Veronica Maclean,
Past Forgetting: A Memoir of Heroes, Adventure, and Love
(London: Headline Review, 2002).

“They spoke of me…”: Gore Vidal,
Palimpsest: A Memoir
(New York: Random House, 1995).

“heresy”: Betty Coxe Spalding, author interview.

“favorite of all the children”: Rose Kennedy to Nancy Astor, June 14, 1948, University of Reading.

“the Big One”: Fiona Arran, author interview.

“international publicity”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Paul Murphy, April 18, 1939, John F. Kennedy Library.

he began to speak: Betty Coxe Spalding, author interview.

meant to study the electioneering: Maclean,
Past Forgetting
.

“Life with him…”:
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy
.

some of the most valuable: Jacqueline Kennedy, interview, John Sherman Cooper Oral History Project, University of Kentucky.

Dr. Elmer Bartels: Elmer Bartels, interview, Massachusetts Historical Society.

“schooled himself”: McGeorge Bundy, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.

“an actor’s control”: Charles Spalding quoted in Ralph G. Martin,
A Hero for Our Time
(New York: Fawcett, 1984).

considered quitting her job: Evelyn Lincoln,
My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy
(New York: McKay, 1965).

“the depth of Jack’s…”: Lem Billings quoted in Doris Kearns Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987).

“I don’t think…”: Jane Suydam, author interview.

“eyes filled with…”: Ibid.

“the humiliation she…”: Lem Billings quoted in Goodwin,
Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys
.

“I expect to be…”: John F. Kennedy to Gunilla von Post, March 2, 1953, Legendary Auctions.

“never alone”:
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy
.

“It now appears…”: John F. Kennedy to Gunilla von Post, June 28, 1953, Legendary Auctions.

Four

“kind of strange”: Elmer Bartels, interview, Massachusetts Historical Society.

“behind the drapes”: Ibid.

“good control”: Ibid.

As late as August: John F. Kennedy to Gunilla von Post, August 16, 1954, Legendary Auctions.

By September: John F. Kennedy to Gunilla von Post, September 13, 1954, Legendary Auctions.

“a normal life…” Bill Adler,
The Uncommon Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Portrait in Her Own Words
(Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel, 1994).

“spend weekends with”: Ibid.

“I don’t care.…”:
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy
(New York: Hyperion, 2011).

self-dramatizing: Isaiah Berlin, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.

“liberated”: Frank Waldrop, interview, Massachusetts Historical Society.

to take notes: Martin,
A Hero for Our Time
.

“American cousin”: Anne Tree, author interview.

“the brightest man…”:
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy
.

“the most wounded”: Ibid.

virtually as a brother: Andrew Devonshire, author interview.

“short straw in life”: Ibid.

“prime runner”: Victoria Lloyd, author interview.

“another cousin”: Alexander Stockton, author interview.

Jackie prayed: Carl Sferrazza Anthony,
As We Remember Her: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the Words of Her Family and Friends
(New York: Harper Perennial, 2003.)

ten days: Jacqueline Kennedy to Henry Luce, 1954, Library of Congress.

“It will be…”: Jacqueline Kennedy to Lyndon B. Johnson, November 4, 1954, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.

“I was terribly…”: John F. Kennedy to Gunilla von Post, November 11, 1954, Legendary Auctions.

“without fail”: Ibid.

haunted him: John F. Kennedy to Gunilla von Post, December 18, 1954, Legendary Auctions.

to fantasize about: Ibid.

“just to keep…”
Jacqueline Kennedy, Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy
.

“foreign ideology that…”: John F. Kennedy,
Profiles in Courage
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956).

arranging to have a backup: John F. Kennedy to Elsa Fogelstrom, August 22, 1955, Legendary Auctions.

“to work and learn…” Evelyn Lincoln,
My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy
(New York: McKay, 1965).

telegraphed Gunilla: John F. Kennedy to Gunilla von Post, August 10, 1955, Legendary Auctions.

contacted his father: John F. Kennedy to Joseph P. Kennedy, n.d., in Amanda Smith, ed.,
Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy
(New York: Viking, 2001).

reported to Gunilla: John F. Kennedy to Gunilla von Post, August 22, 1955, Legendary Auctions.

“It’s best if…”: Janet Travell,
Office Hours Day and Night: The Autobiography of Janet Travell, M.D.
(New York: New American Library, 1968).

a one-story house: Janet Auchincloss, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.

drawers and shoe shelves: Ibid.

“very intrigued”: Joseph P. Kennedy to Edward Kennedy, September 3, 1955, John F. Kennedy Library.

“surreptitious candidacy”: Herbert S. Parmet,
Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy
(New York: Dial, 1980).

expected to go with George Smathers: John F. Kennedy to Joseph P. Kennedy, June 29, 1956, John F. Kennedy Library.

“redneck”: George Smathers, Senate interview.

disliked Smathers:
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy
.

Smathers for his part: George Smathers, author interview.

that politician had been George Smathers: Ted Sorensen,
Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History
(New York: Harper, 2008).

“Don’t feel sorry…”: Parmet,
Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy
.

crying openly: George Smathers, Senate interview.

“like Jack in a wig”: Deborah Devonshire, author interview.

“very disappointed”: George Smathers, Senate interview.

“Jackie got too excited…”: Travell,
Office Hours Day and Night
.

“I could really be president…”: George Smathers, Senate interview.

“Why don’t you…”: Ibid.

“pulled something fishy”: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978).

“raging spirit”: Charles Spalding, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.

“fight his way to the top”: Ibid.

“Action Man”: Jane Ormsby-Gore, author interview.

at the urging of George Smathers: George Smathers, author interview.

worried that: Lem Billings quoted in Doris Kearns Goodwin,
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987).

Five

“Let’s face it.…”: Laura Bergquist, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.

“modeled himself, his gestures…”: Charles Spalding, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.

“picked up a lot…”: Laura Bergquist, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.

“passionate self-effacement”: Ibid.

“self-abnegation”: Joseph Alsop to Theodore Sorensen, November 10, 1960, Library of Congress.

“such a crush”:
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy
(New York: Hyperion, 2011).

“a relationship that…”: McGeorge Bundy, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.

“more than fair”: Ted Sorensen,
Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History
(New York: Harper, 2008).

“sneaky”:
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy
.

“rather heatedly”: Laura Bergquist, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.

“Well, that’s not…”: Ibid.

wheeled in the newborn: Janet Auchincloss, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.

“I don’t think…”: Betty Coxe Spalding, author interview.

he later told: Deborah Devonshire, author interview.

“starter”: Joseph Alsop to Jacqueline Kennedy, September 9, 1964, Library of Congress.

“a higher handicap”: Ibid.

“as sizable as…”: Igor Cassini,
I’d Do It All Over Again
(New York: Putnam, 1977).

“objects that are…”: Joseph Alsop to Jayne Wrightsman, September 30, 1960, Library of Congress.

“as a true, independent…”: Ibid.

“sloppy kid”: William Walton, interview, Massachusetts Historical Society.

“at cross purposes…”: Jacqueline Kennedy to Joseph Alsop, n.d., Library of Congress.

“She got elegant…”: William Walton, interview, Massachusetts Historical Society.

ran out of the room in tears: Betty Coxe Spalding, author interview.

“on the Churchill ticket”: Harold Macmillan diary, Bodleian Library, Oxford University.

Churchill had first met Onassis: Anthony Montague Browne,
Long Sunset: Memoirs of Winston Churchill’s Last Private Secretary
(London: Cassell, 1995); and Martin Gilbert,
Never Despair: Winston S. Churchill, 1945–1965
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988).

“the man or…”: Lord Moran,
Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940–1965: Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966).

“He is a…” Ibid.

“so hungry”:
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy
.

“I think he thought…”: William Douglas-Home, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.

“his first…”: William Walton, interview, Massachusetts Historical Society.

“from the ravages…”: Joseph Alsop,
I’ve Seen the Best of It: Memoirs
(New York: Norton, 1992).

“The Auchinclosses lived…”: William Walton, interview, Massachusetts Historical Society.

“She knew all about…”: Frank Langella,
Dropped Names
(New York: Harper, 2012).

“really worth it”: Jacqueline Kennedy to Joseph Alsop, n.d., Library of Congress.

“It’s the only…”: Ibid.

reported to the decorator: Apple Parish Bartlett and Susan Bartlett Crater,
Sister: The Life of the Legendary American Interior Designer Mrs. Henry Parish II
(New York: St. Martin’s, 2000).

a gift for Jackie: Joseph Alsop to Eunice Shriver, August 4, 1960, Library of Congress.

“a ghastly little…”: Jacqueline Kennedy to Joseph Alsop, n.d., Library of Congress.

“adore”: Ibid.

“plain Mrs. Kennedy…”: Joseph Alsop to Jacqueline Kennedy, August 4, 1960, Library of Congress.

He suggested: Ibid.

“unreasonable”: Jacqueline Kennedy to Joseph Alsop, n.d., Library of Congress.

“I couldn’t…”:
New York Times
, September 15, 1960.

Six

“I had worked…”: Thomas Maier,
The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings
(New York: Basic Books, 2003).

“It took…”: Billy Baldwin,
Billy Baldwin Remembers
(New York: Harcourt, 1974).

a bantering manner: Letitia Baldrige, author interview.

“Jack got so…”:
Jacqueline Kennedy, Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy
(New York: Hyperion, 2011).

boasting of a 72 percent: David Ormsby-Gore to Harold Macmillan, March 1, 1961, Public Record Office, Kew.

“shattered”: Chester Bowles Notes on Cuban Crisis, April 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy Library.

“an acute shock”: Ibid.

“inept”: Hervé Alphand,
L’étonnement d’être, Journal 1939–1973
(Paris: Fayard, 1977).

“a soft, not very…”: Chester Bowles, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.

“She was undone…”: Betty Coxe Spalding, author interview.

her first injection: Max Jacobson, unpublished memoir.

Max Jacobson: Author background interviews with Patrick O’Neal and Betty Coxe Spalding.

he did not like: Betty Coxe Spalding, author interview.

In the course of their visit: Max Jacobson, unpublished memoir.

“the hit of…”: Kenneth P. O’Donnell and David F. Powers:
Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye: Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(New York: Little, Brown, 1970).

“It’s not that…”: Larry Newman, author interview.

“as a means of…”: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,
A Thousand Days
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965).

enjoyed a tryst: Betty Coxe Spalding, author interview.