Presidential Escapades, Reaction to
Steven K. Robison
it were not for his father, Jack would never have married her. Jack's
apparent indifference to his wife was starkly revealed in the summer of 1956
when he was in Europe with a girlfriend and news came that Jackie had
suffered a miscarriage. He made no effort to return home until persuaded
five days later that if he didn't, and the press found out, his presidential
ambitions would be toast. It was rumored at the time that Joe paid Jackie a
million dollars to prevent her divorcing Jack over the episode.
By 1963, Jackie was seldom at the White House, either staying with the
children at her horse ranch in Virginia, or away with male friends in
Europe. Aristotle Onassis, the Greek shipping magnate she later married,
was already part of her circle, and stayed at the White House during the
days following Kennedy's assassination. So often was Jackie away that one
radio host used to sign off his nightly show by saying: "And good night
Jackie, wherever you are."
--John F. Kennedy Handbook, Gareth Jenkins, MQP, 2006, p. 282
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"Steven K. Robison" <srob...@hsonline.net> wrote in message
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Mao was once asked what he thought would have happened if Kruschev had died
instead of Kennedy. ``Well,'' he replied after much deliberation, ``I doubt
if Aristotle Onassis would have married Mrs. Kruschev.''
Joe Fineman
> Mao was once asked what he thought would have happened if Kruschev
> had died instead of Kennedy. ``Well,'' he replied after much
> deliberation, ``I doubt if Aristotle Onassis would have married
> Mrs. Kruschev.''
This story has gotten attached to quite a variety of people, so I
suppose it must be apocryphal. Personally I prefer the version in
which Kissinger asks the question of Chou En-Lai.
The joke does seem to have a certain Chineseness.
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--- Joe Fineman jo...@verizon.net
||: ***k: The most important kind of marital intercourse. :||
The Sanity Inspector
P. J. O'Rourke once made a speech wherein he invoked nostalgia for the
Reagan years, when "sleeping with the President" meant attending a
cabinet meeting.
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bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
-- The Jam
Steven K. Robison
sort of asset, like Rhode Island," Jackie confided to Senator George
McGovern. Nevertheless, she played the role of political wife to
perfection, displaying loyalty and radiant happiness when with her husband
on public occasions. The marriage gave her the money and status she had
always sought and, as she grew into the role of First Lady, she gained the
adulation of millions throughout the world for her beauty, poise, and style.
--Gareth Jenkins, John F. Kennedy Handbook, MQP (2006), pp. 282 - 283
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Véritable Rosbif
Sounds a bit like our own, late and apparently saintly Princess Tracy
Battenberg, wickedly killed by an evil conspiracy of everyone on the planet
except Mohammed Fayed.
Ida O'Furphy
> Mao was once asked what he thought would have happened if Kruschev had died
> instead of Kennedy. ``Well,'' he replied after much deliberation, ``I doubt
> if Aristotle Onassis would have married Mrs. Kruschev.''
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She will end up on the yacht of an arms dealer.
~ Charles De Gaulle 1890-1970, when asked what would become of Jackie
Kennedy after her husband's death.
//Ida O'Furphy
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