One of Jackie Kennedy's greatest gifts to the nation was the restoration of the White House, but her first building project as First Lady involved the transformation of the White House into a family home. She converted a porch into a kindergarten and commissioned the installation of a swing ...
New and surprising details of Jackie Kennedy Onassis' White House years have been released by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. The library has released some of her personal papers, including her notes for a famous TV tour of the White House that aired 50 years ago. The newly release...
In the original White House tour, Mrs. Kennedy shows Collingwood various White House rooms, including the Diplomatic Reception Room and the Blue Room. In the Red Room, she shows one of two original White House mantles, and in the East Room, she points out the piano designed by President Fr...
Kennedy referred to her formal White House wardrobe as her “state clothes,” but those polished clothes set the bar for how women wanted to dress, Stateside, and globally. Her influence on both the fashion industry and the press had such sway that Kennedy was dubbed “...
JACKIE KENNEDY BACK IN WHITE HOUSEJohn Robinson, Globe Staff
John F. Kennedy won the election on November 8. 1960 and was sworn in the following January. On the first day, Jackie proposed to make the family area of the White House attractive and make it perfect for this family life. At the White House, the first family held many social events ...
In the White House, a plaque is mounted outside Jackie's former bedroom that reads "In this room lived John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, during the two years, ten months, and two days he was President of the United States. Jackie rides in a limo through D.C. She notic...
She dismissed the idea that the eldest Kennedy son, Joseph Jr., would have been president had he not been killed in World War II. "He would have been so unimaginative, compared to Jack," she said. White House speechwriter Theodore Sorensen had a "big inferiority complex" and was "the ...
Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband's historic legacy.Related Videos 0:31 Now Playing Jackie 49 2:28 Jackie: Returning To The White House Jackie 14 3:06 Jackie: After Jfk's Murder Jackie ...
White, who wrote “For President Kennedy: An Epilogue," a Life article that ran one week after President John F. Kennedy's assassination). This one is a movie where an important person contemplates his or her place in history and tries to control how they are perceived. It's fuzzy and ...