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    Jackie Kennedy: A Captivating Guide to the Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
    Jackie Kennedy: A Captivating Guide to the Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
    Jackie Kennedy: A Captivating Guide to the Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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    Jackie Kennedy: A Captivating Guide to the Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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    Without a doubt, the name Jackie Kennedy draws multiple thoughts to mind; she is, perhaps, most well-known in her service as the first lady of the United States, as her husband, John F. Kennedy, took office as the president, and her role in restoring the White House. Then, of course, other people remember Jacqueline for her role in the fashion industry, particularly her pink Chanel suit and matching pillbox hat, which became a symbol of her husband’s assassination. Jackie is so renowned and beloved that she ranks as one of the most popular first ladies. In fact, Jacqueline was named in 1999 on Gallup’s list of Most Admired Men and Women in twentieth-century America. While she made major impacts on the White House, Jackie was much more than her title as first lady.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCaptivating History
    Release dateAug 18, 2017
    ISBN9781386283478

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      Jackie Kennedy - Captivating History

      Introduction

      Without a doubt, the name Jackie Kennedy draws multiple thoughts to mind; she is, perhaps, most well-known in her service as the first lady of the United States, as her husband, John F. Kennedy, took office as the president, and her role in restoring the White House. Then, of course, other people remember Jacqueline for her role in the fashion industry, particularly her pink Chanel suit and matching pillbox hat, which became a symbol of her husband’s assassination. Jackie is so renowned and beloved that she ranks as one of the most popular first ladies. In fact, Jacqueline was named in 1999 on Gallup’s list of Most Admired Men and Women in twentieth-century America. While she made major impacts on the White House, Jackie was much more than her title as first lady.

      First of all, she was a mother. Not only that, but she was also a mother in the spotlight in the 1960s. People rushed to ask Jacqueline about her ideas on various parts of motherhood and her position as a wife in the White House. In reality, the family was privileged but not that much different from others of their wealth level. Later, her son said, It’s hard to talk about a legacy or a mystique. It’s my family. It’s my mother. It’s my sister. It’s my father. We’re a family like any other. We look out for one another. The fact that there have been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes us closer.[1]

      Jackie held a tight grip on her role in her personal life and government. John F. Kennedy goes as far as to say that his wife was the reason he won re-election to Senate. She was somehow both charismatic and shy, appealing to a broad range of the public. Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger visited the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port in July 1959 and said that he found Jacqueline to have tremendous awareness, an all-seeing eye, and a ruthless judgment.[2]

      Jackie kept people on the edge, and the media never quite knew what to expect from her both within her husband’s presidency and removed from it. She was quite the polar opposite of first ladies Eleanor Roosevelt and Hillary Rodham Clinton when it came to involvement in her husband’s presidency and policies. In fact, she baffled news reporters when she admitted that she did not even know the date of her husband’s inauguration. Jacqueline replied Acapulco when asked what she thought would be a suitable venue for the next Democratic convention. This part of her personality was probably due to her dislike of the media, though. She felt no need to parade her knowledge or her family in front of the cameras and often chose to stand to the side instead of engaging, whereas her husband loved interacting with the press and did so much more often than she would have liked.

      Although she seemed a bit out of the loop at times, Jackie was not ditsy or clueless about her husband’s responsibilities in the political realm. Rather, she was a first lady at a point in time when many American citizens did not appreciate the idea of a president’s wife being too involved in his politics and policies. The more people actually study this particular first lady, though, the more the American public knows about her real place in the White House. Like many wives of presidential marriages, Jacqueline appeared to have little to no influence on the presidency, but she held a good bit of power beneath the surface. In fact, the Kennedy Library holds the first lady’s oral history, which displays her opinions of everyone within John F. Kennedy’s administration, ideas which she clearly shared with her husband. The people she praised in her oral history tended to gain promotion under President Kennedy, and those she disliked did not gain much ground within the White House.

      For the most part, Jacqueline was a strong force her entire life, including her time in the White House. She swept the public and the media off their feet with her fashion choices and her personality, and she warmed the White House with her care for its people and its structural integrity, alongside its function as a home for her children. In all, Jacqueline’s contributions to the United States are not to be underestimated.

      Chapter One: Childhood and Early Education

      On July 28, 1929, Jackie was born as Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Southampton, New York, in Southampton Hospital. Her mother was Janet Norton Lee (1907 –1989), and her father was John Vernou Black Jack Bouvier III (1891 – 1957). Janet Norton Lee’s ancestry was of Irish descent, while John Vernou Bouvier III’s family hailed from France, Scotland, and England. Soon after her birth, Jacqueline was baptized at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in Manhattan. A few years later in 1933, the Bouvier family welcomed a new member, Caroline Lee Bouvier, who would later be Caroline Lee Radziwill-Ross. Both sisters were reared strictly in the Catholic faith.

      As a young child, Jackie was establishing her independence and quick wit, and it was noticeable to everyone who interacted with her. While on a walk with her nanny and little sister, Jackie wandered away from the small group. When a police officer stopped her, worried about a young girl alone, she

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