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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
said
Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along.
— Quoted from article written by Jacqueline Kennedy for Look Magazine (17 November 1964) JFK memorial issue.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
First Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963
- Fame67.5
- Momentum0.0
- Global rank#169
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- Fame67.5
- Momentum0.0
- Global rank#169
- United States rank#76
- Journalists rank#92
- Wikipedia375.4K
Lived 1929–1994, aged 65United States
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She turned the White House into a stage for culture and made fashion a tool of statecraft during the Cold War. The "Jackie Look" moved nations; her fluency in languages and history made her a diplomatic force at 33.
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Born into the upper-class Bouvier family in Southampton, she studied history and art at Vassar before earning a degree in French literature from George Washington University in 1951. She started as an inquiring photographer at the Washington Times-Herald, then met congressman John F. Kennedy at a dinner party in 1952. They married in Newport the following year. After his election to the presidency in 1960, she led a highly publicized White House restoration and became Time's Woman of the Year in 1962. His assassination in 1963 sent her into retreat. Five years later she married Greek shipping…
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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I loathe the French. There's not one French person I can think of except—maybe two very simple people. Maybe Boudin, who's so un-French. You know, they're really not very nice.
— In her 1964 interview with Arthur Schlesinger, quoted in Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy (2011).
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
said
Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
— Inscription for cards at her husband’s funeral (25 November 1963)
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
said
I want to be there when he dies.
— When told she couldn't access President Kennedy's hospital room (22 November 1963); quoted in The Death of a President (1967) by William
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.
— To her mother, Janet Auchincloss (22 November 1963); quoted in The Death of a President (1967) by William Manchester
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