Kennedy Wives: Triumph and Tragedy in America's Most Public Family (35 page)

120.
“Don’t cry now”:
ibid., p. 465.

120.
“a good and decent man, who”:
Thomas,
Robert Kennedy
,
ch. 21.

120.
“It was the only moment . . . resting against the casket”:
ibid.

121.
She greeted nearly every:
ibid.; Oppenheimer,
The Other Mrs. Kennedy,
p. 473.

121.
A priest said a prayer, and . . . into the ground:
Oppenheimer,
The Other Mrs. Kennedy,
p. 476.

11. Still Herself

122.
she observed the old-fashioned:
Flynn, Betty, “Ethel Year After: Still Herself,”
Boston Globe
, May 25, 1969.

122.
The children were expected to:
Leamer,
Kennedy Women,
]p. 637.

122.
She took the kids on:
Flynn, “Ethel Year After: Still Herself.”

122.
She poured significant energy:
Oppenheimer,
The Other Mrs. Kennedy,
p. 491.

122.
She endured bed rest:
Flynn, “Ethel Year After: Still Herself.”

122–23
.
“Ethel is the same person
. . . as if he wasn’t gone”:
ibid.

123.
“frequent visitor to Hickory Hill . . . you can see the sorrow there”:
ibid.

123.
“I got it because of my cooking”:
Oppenheimer,
The Other Mrs. Kennedy,
p. 497.

123.
“Ethel’s mood swept from deep”:
Leamer,
Kennedy Women,
p. 636.

123.
The turnover for maids:
Leamer,
Kennedy Women
, p. 640.

123.
He pled with her, asked for . . . remained an issue:
Oppenheimer,
The Other Mrs. Kennedy,
p. 525.

123.
A rowdy bunch, they destroyed:
ibid., p. 524.

123–24
.
“They untied boats from the docks . . . threw lit firecrackers into the house”:
Leamer,
Kennedy Women,
pp. 660–61.

124.
He and David escaped with minor:
Leamer,
Kennedy Women
, p. 662.

124.
He’d been in town to:
Leamer,
Kennedy Women,
p. 727.

124.
Warren Rogers of
Look
magazine:
Oppenheimer,
The Other Mrs. Kennedy,
pp. 537–47.

124–25
. “
There have been so many times . . . last forty years”:
Kennedy,
Ethel
, HBO, 2012.

125.
“Because it was Rory who”:
Associated Press, “Ethel Kennedy, RFK’s Widow, Is Subject of HBO Documentary,” October 17, 2012.

Part III: Jackie

1. Black Jack and Janet

128.
His father’s fortune:
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 2.

128.
“Jackie and her younger”:
ibid., p. 1.

128.
Like Black Jack, Jackie’s . . . Janet and Black Jack wed:
ibid., p. 7.

129.
She was competing in equestrian:
ibid., pp.8, 9.

129–30
.
“almost irrational social climbing . . . and I would”:
Haslam, Nicky, “The Real Lee Radziwill,”
New York Times
, February 7, 2013.

130.
“There was such relentless . . . which she always kept”:
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 13.

130.
“It was like for the years from ten to twenty”:
ibid.

131.
It was there that she made:
Smith,
Grace and Power
,
p. xv.

131.
“Jackie was already a rebel”:
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 15.

131–32
.
Jackie and Lee’s new stepfather:
Haslam, “The Real Lee Radziwill.”

132.
“My amiable, long-suffering”:
Vidal,
Palimpsest
, p. 7.

132.
“permanently susceptible to the”:
ibid., p. 205.

132.
“He was a kind man”:
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 21.

132.
“A house more Victorian . . . Caroline and Jacqueline”:
Haslam, “The Real Lee Radziwill.”

132.
“dark, musty”: .
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 20.

132.
Jackie did not share:
ibid.

132.
large brick neo-Georgian:
ibid., p. 19.

132.
“the lawn and the woods beyond”:
Vidal,
Palimpsest
, p. 10.

133.
“I always love it so at Merrywood . . . those great steep hills”:
Perry,
Jacqueline Kennedy
, p. 25.

133.
“Jackie never once spoke of step-this”
: Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p.25.

133.
“I think he . . . counted on us totally”:
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 25.

133.
In 1944 Jackie and her horse Danseuse:
Glueckstein,
Of Men, Women and Horses
, p. 64.

133.
“had begun to concentrate”:
Perry,
Jacqueline Kennedy
, p. 25.

134.
“the prototype of the dangerous”:
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, pp. 28–29.

134.
“What we liked to do was . . . dirty old man”:
ibid., p. 27.

134.
“From its very start, in 1843”:
Peretz, Evgenia, “The Code of Miss Porter’s,”
Vanity Fair
, July 2009.

135.
“She really had a very dirty sense of humor”:
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 29.

135.
One advised her twelve-year-old sister:
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 29.

135.
“never be a housewife”:
Perry,
Jacqueline Kennedy
, p. 26.

135.
“I remember that talking . . . enveloping you with this gaze”:
ibid.

2. That Damn Vassar

136.
“I spent two years at Vassar”:
Perry,
Jacqueline Kennedy
, p. 27.

136.
“I knew about her Deb of the Year title”
: Heymann,
A Woman Named Jackie
, p. 70.

136–37
.
“She was intellectually very curious . . . it was most flattering ”:
ibid., p. 71.

137.
“I was struggling like mad . . . coach me through it”:
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 36.

137.
“It was a transitory period . . . lawyers and stockbrokers”:
Heymann,
A Woman Named Jackie
, p. 72.

137.
“Jackie was learning the American geisha . . . she honed to perfection”:
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 37.

137.
“beetle-browed bores”:
Heymann,
A Woman Named Jackie
, p. 72.

138.
“She couldn’t tolerate weak”:
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 38.

138.
“I suppose it won’t be long . . . she has nothing”:
Heymann,
A Woman Named Jackie
, pp. 73–74.

138.
“If I was dressed up . . . ‘Play the game’” :
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 36.

138.
“You just remember, Jacqueline . . . obligation to warn us”:
ibid., p. 37.

138.
In January of 1948:
ibid., p. 32.

138.
The turmoil was not only:
Heymann,
A Woman Named Jackie
, pp. 74–75.

138.
“The precipitate decline of the Bouviers’ fortunes”:
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 33.

139.
“glamour, glitter and rush”:
ibid., p. 40.

139.
“I’ve had a glimpse . . . soak it all up”:
Heymann,
A Woman Named Jackie
, p. 76.

139.
“the high point of my life”:
ibid., p. 80.

139.
“Like most French residences . . . trooper in the truest sense of the word”:
ibid.

139–40
.
“The most wonderful thing here is . . . that is playing”:
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 41.

140.
“it was just too luxurious and”:
ibid., p. 42.

140.
“Don’t you ever plan to come home?”
ibid, p.42.

140.
“You may hate the thought . . . half as bad as you think”:
ibid., pp. 41–42.

140.
“Jackie’s favorite activity was . . . stories they had to tell”:
Heymann,
A Woman Named Jackie
, p. 83.

141.
“She was an extremely . . . didn’t need to take my classes”:
Perry,
Jacqueline Kennedy
, p. 29.

141.
“an autobiography; technical”:
ibid., p. 30.

141.
“As to physical appearance”:
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 46.

141.
“poets and idealists who could”:
ibid.

142.
The whirlwind trip was:
ibid., pp. 48–49.

142.
“After the dinner, why, I walked . . . couldn’t join him for a drink”:
Bartlett, JFK Oral History #1, pp. 20–21.

3. The Career Woman and the Distinguished Gentleman

143.
“Perhaps her mother and stepfather”:
Perry,
Jacqueline Kennedy
, p. 31.

143.
An encounter with a flamboyantly gay staff:
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 4.9

143.
Jackie, trained in the use of a professional:
Perry,
Jacqueline Kennedy
, p. 32.

144.
“You could make the column . . . capture how they talked”:
Smith,
Grace and Power
,
pp. 25–26.

144.
“Do you think a wife should . . . young man’s slave”:
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 53; Smith,
Grace and Power
,
p. 26.

144.
There are a differing accounts:
Perry,
Jacqueline Kennedy
, p. 32; Heymann,
A Woman Named Jackie
, p. 92; Bradford, p. 56.

144.
“tall, well-built, urbane, very”:
Heymann,
A Woman Named Jackie
, p. 91.

144.
“She didn’t say much and neither . . . much you could say”:
ibid., p. 108.

144.
And Jackie confided her fears:
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 57.

145.
“If you didn’t get on the offensive”:
Kennedy,
Historic Conversations
, First Conversation.

145.
For example, steroids prescribed for digestive:
Perry,
Jacqueline Bouvier
, p. 33, citing Dallek,
Unfinished Life
.

146.
“A remarkable combination of informality”:
Bernstein, JFK Oral History, pp. 2–5.

4. A Sporadic Courtship, A Celebrity Wedding

147–48
.
“He had no facility for”:
Perry,
Jacqueline Kennedy
, p. 34.

148.
“He saw her as a kindred spirit”:
Dallek,
Unfinished Life
, p. 193.

148.
“He’d call me from some oyster bar”:
Perry,
Jacqueline Kennedy
, p. 35.

148.
She took part in his intellectual:
Heymann,
A Woman Named Jackie
, p. 114.

148.
“How can I explain these people?”:
ibid., p.115.

149.
“when they have nothing else to”:
ibid., p. 116.

149.
“Joe Kennedy not only condoned . . . ‘A politician has to . . . we’ve ever seen around here.’ ”:
ibid., p. 117.

149.
“I remember the first time . . . won them over pretty quickly.”:
Haslam, Nicky, “The Real Lee Radziwill,”
New York Times
, February 7, 2013.

149.
“He really brightened . . . not true of many women”:
Dallek,
Unfinished Life
, p. 193.

150.
“The year before we were married . . . on crutches more than not”:
Kennedy,
Historic Conversations
, First Conversation.

150.
“She wasn’t sexually attracted . . . terribly obvious Freudian situations”:
Dallek,
Unfinished Life
, p. 194.

150.
“she would never have married”:
Bradford,
America’s Queen
, p. 67.

150.
“Articles excellent but you are missed”:
Perry,
Jacqueline Kennedy
, p. 36.

150.
The engagement hit the papers:
ibid., p. 37.

150.
The wedding was, at Joe’s direction:
ibid., p. 37.

151.
“something traditional and old-fashioned”:
Heymann,
A Woman Named Jackie
, p. 130.

151.
“Joe reportedly was particularly pleased”:
Perry,
Jacqueline Kennedy
, p. 37.