Jackies Newport Americas First Lady And The City By The Sea – Raymond Sinibaldi (1)

One can only wonder if her mind wandered back to the summer of 1956. It was but days after the Democratic Convention in which her husband had 90 lost his bid to land the second spot on the ticket with Adlai Stevenson. Jack was off on a pleasure trip to sail the European coast, accompanied by Senator George Smathers, Congressman and former Harvard classmate Torbet MacDonald, and younger brother Teddy. Jackie had returned home to Newport and Hammersmith Farm. A little over seven months pregnant, she was left behind while Jack cavorted, gallivanting about the Mediterranean, enjoying wine, women, and more women.

Did she recall her first engagement to John Husted and ponder how things might have been had she chosen him instead of Jack? Or perhaps she remembered a conversation with Lemoyne Billings, her husband’s friend since their junior high school days at the Choate School in Connecticut? It was the night of the first Inaugural Ball of Dwight Eisenhower.

Before the ball, Jack and his sister Pat hosted a cocktail party at their home in Georgetown. Billings took this opportunity to talk with Jackie about her pending nuptials to the country’s most eligible bachelor. The thirty-five-year-old senator was “crazy about girls, but he never really settled down with one girl…He was terribly interested in going out and having fun with them at night.” He was never really “terribly excited about having girls as friends.” As his wedding approached he was “worried about the responsibilities he was taking on as a husband…he was scared.”

Billings sought out twenty-three-year-old Jacqueline Bouvier, for he “had known Jack a long time…and I felt as if I should prepare her a little bit for what I felt were some of the problems that Jack might have in marrying at thirty-five. She was terribly young and it might be best if she were prepared for it.” 223 Billings minced few words in relating his friend’s predilection and penchant for women.

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. . Our Connection is pure love. Contents g A U T H O R ’ S N O T E 1 P A R T I : Jackie, Newport and Hammersmith Farm 3 P A R T I I : The Summer White House 31 P A R T I I I : Mr. and Mrs. America 83 E P I L O G U E 203 A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S 211 E N D N O T E S 213 I N D E X 227 Author’s Note g I dare say no biographer will ever truly come to know Jackie, a passionately private person.

She saved that for those whom she treasured and loved. It is my hope that these pages will bring you a greater understanding of the challenges she faced, the strength and resiliency it took to simply endure and the depth of character exhibited while doing so. I hope this will bring a deeper perspective of the toughness and inner strength she carried within that slender frame and behind her soft whispery voice.

To those of you who met Jackie only in later books and media, it is my hope that you will come to a deeper appreciation and understanding of her triumphs, her tragedies, what she means to this country and why she still resonates today. For those of you who lived in the times in which she lived, you will find within these pages a window to them.

You are about to journey to a bygone American era, when televisions first began bringing America’s leaders into America’s homes. When John F.

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