source: style.com
Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of Sen. John F. Kennedy, dances with Oleg Cassini, at the Belmont Ball, Palm Beach, Fla., 1954.
President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, in a fur-trimmed suit designed by Oleg Cassini, at his inauguration, 1961.
Jacqueline Kennedy lifts the skirt of her ivory double-faced silk satin twill inaugural ball gown, designed by Oleg Cassini, as she and her husband, president-elect John F. Kennedy, leave their Washington, D.C., home en route to the inaugural concert.
Please let's not belittle the American presidency to such an extent. That is ridiculous. Yes, she probably did offer a lot of mental support and people will look at who the First Lady will be, but the First Lady in political terms will not suddenly make a swing vote, especially where a candidate is campaigning for his first term, and people won't know as much about her as they would if she had already been in her position for 4 years. Even now, the First Lady has the option to either pursue campaign initiatives herself or just sit back and be a symbol of the First Family-she is not constitutionally obliged to do anything. She may have helped his image, she did not help his presidency. At the end of the day, people will look at who they want to be their guy in the Oval, not who occupies the upstairs residence. I for one do not care about George Bush's wife (although I do think his daughter Jenna is a serious liability to him) because I'm too busy criticising him.
aww I didn't know we had this thread. I used to love love love Jackie O. as a little girl. Such a cool graceful and in many ways amazing woman.
As far as helping Jack in real terms for winning a campaign. No, she wasn't his campaign manager or anything. But her and the Kennedy women used to throw teas for a lot of prominent Connecticut woman back when he first ran for Senate (they also did the same for Bobby) and it was sort of an upper middle class grass roots effort. But the voting then was different. It wasn't necessarily trying to find the undecideds or swing votes and win them over.
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