Jackie at 16
At 16, Jacqueline Kennedy had a sophisticated wit, and was a surprisingly stylish writer as well.
And that was just in letters to her then-boyfriend. No wonder he kept them!
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At 16, Jacqueline Kennedy had a sophisticated wit, and was a surprisingly stylish writer as well.
And that was just in letters to her then-boyfriend. No wonder he kept them!
Long ago, somewhere, I read or heard a story — perhaps apocryphal — about the young Jackie Bouvier, who was dancing at some elegant function with some significant personage when her underpants fell down unexpectedly from under her gown and settled around her ankles. As the story had it, she simply smiled, stepped out of them, and kept dancing. Poise few could muster!
A childhood friend worked at the Kennedy compound one summer. Jackie was the only adult Kennedy for which he had a good opinion. [Perhaps because she married into the clan.]
And then she married John. Intellect and style can be the least part of what motivates people’s decisions.
And then she married Aristotle. Intellect and style can be the least part of what motivates people’s decisions.
Through the glass darkly, I see a tragic figure. Ms. Bouvier was a bright firefly caught in a spider’s web the moment she became the bride of a Kennedy.