I watched the Diane Sawyer special about the tape recordings Jacqueline Kennedy made 4 months after Jack died.
I was surprised that she was so traditional in her views of
the wife in a marriage. She had that Beaver Cleaver mother attitude of that time--that when a husband comes home from a hard day at work, the wife should look attractive and provide a calming environment for her husband. The children should be well behaved, and make being at home as pleasant as possible for the hard working hubby.

She truly loved, admired and respected Jack, and said she didn't think she was his intellectual equal. She said it thrilled her when she did something he approved of. I believe if she knew he had women on the side, she would have thought that was okay because a man under such pressure needed his dalliances.
She was a fashionista of the finst caliber (I loved her clothes.) Her youth and beauty made some women catty towards her. She had some barbed comments about some famous women who crossed her path.
She said she was only a couple of days past a miscarriage and was invited to a social function by Mamie Eisenhower. She said Mamie didn't provide adequate seating for her even though she was about to faint from the exertion. She took this as a deliberate snub.

She had sharp comments about Indira Ghandi; among other things a "prune, and bitter." She had acerbic comments about Lyndon Johnson and almost every famous person she met, even as she charmed them to pieces. She sniped that Eunice Shriver, (Maria's mother) was always at Jack to give a cabinet post to her husband, Sargent, because she wanted to be a Cabinet wife.

If you saw the show, I'd like your opinion.

susil

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