jackie kennedy
Jackie,Jacqueline Kennedy,first lady,White House,Tour,Restoration,Historical preservation,culture,White House entertaining,traveling ambassador,Mrs. Kennedy,mother,As first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy brought beauty, grace, intelligence, and cultivated taste to the White House. [1]
Gallagher regreted her loss of contact with Jackie Kennedy after all their years together. [2]
The inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961 brought to the White House and to the heart of the nation a beautiful young wife and the first young children of a President in half a century. [3]
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s parents divorced in 1942. [4]
Jackie, as they called her, was only a year old when her mother first put her on a horse. [5]
She was born Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, daughter of John Vernon Bouvier III and his wife, Janet Lee. [3]
Nevertheless, during the weeks before the inauguration, she began her plans to not only redecorate the family quarters of the White House but to historically restore the public rooms. [4]
During her husband’s convalescence from major back surgery in 1955, she encouraged his interest in writing Profiles in Courage, a study of highly-principled political decisions in U.S. history, which he eventually dedicated to her. [...] Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy played a historic role during the Kennedy administration: most notably her restoration of the White House, her contribution to its collection of art and historical furnishings, her support of the arts, her leadership in historic preservation, and her work as a traveling ambassador. [1]
Janet Norton Lee, born 1906, December 3, New York, New York; attended Sweetbriar College, Virginia, and Vassar College but did not graduate from either institution; a noted horsewoman and a multiple trophy winner. [4]
Her father, John Vernou Bouvier III, was an affluent Wall Street stockbroker whose ancestors had arrived from France in the early 1800s. [1]
Her father, John, was a wealthy stockbroker on Wall Street whose family had come from France in the early 1800s. [5]
After the sadness of a miscarriage and the stillbirth of a daughter, Caroline Bouvier was born in 1957; John Jr. was born between the election of 1960 and Inauguration Day. [...] Her mother, who had obtained a divorce, married Hugh D. Auchincloss in 1942 and brought her two girls to “Merrywood,” his home near Washington, D.C., with summers spent at his estate in Newport, Rhode Island. [3]
President and Mrs. Kennedy and Madame Malraux congratulate violinist Isaac Stern, 11 May 1962. [5]
Sources:
[1] Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years
[2] Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - Wikipedia
[3] Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis - White House
[4] Jackie Kennedy - National First Ladies’ Library
[5] Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy: First Lady