Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, 1929 - 1994
Official White House portrait by Mark Shaw, 1961
Born: 28 July 1929, Southampton, New York
Died: 19 May 1994, New York City
Born Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, her father was a playboy stock broker ("Black Jack" Bouvier), her mother the daughter of a bank president, so she attended the finest private schools before two years at Vassar, a year at the Sorbonne, and finishing her degree at George Washington University in 1951. At the Washington Times-Herald she asked questions of people she met and wrote a column featuring their answers and photos. At social functions she crossed paths with a young and ambitious Democrat named John Kennedy, they wed in 1953. After Kennedy's election she was a very public first lady, remodeling most of the White House with historical furnishings. The world was impressed at her grace and dignity after the president's assassination. After Bobby Kennedy was assassinated she feared for her family's safety and married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, possibly because he could afford to protect them in his homes at Paris and on his Greek island Skorpios. After his death she returned to New York and lived quietly, working as an editor first at Viking Press and then Doubleday. She was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in January 1994.
Biography from Wikipedia and National First Ladies' Library
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis quotes:
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- A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
- A newspaper reported that I spent $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.
- An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
- An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
- Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
- Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye.
- Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.
- Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
- Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
- For a while I thought history was something that bitter old men wrote.
- He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. It had to be some silly little Communist.
- I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
- I never even kept a journal. I thought, "I want to live my life, not record it."
- I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.
- I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
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