When was jackie kennedy born

On September 12, , they married at St. Early on in their marriage, Senator Kennedy suffered crippling pain in his back from football and wartime injuries and had two operations. While recovering from surgery, Mrs. Kennedy encouraged him to write a book about several US senators who had risked their careers to fight for the things they believed in.

The book, called Profiles in Courage , was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography in In January , Senator John F.

Kennedy announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States. He began traveling all around the country and Jacqueline often accompanied him. During the campaign, she learned that she was pregnant and her doctors instructed her to remain at home.

From there, she answered hundreds of campaign letters, taped TV commercials, gave interviews, and wrote a weekly newspaper column, "Campaign Wife," which was distributed across the country. On November 8, , John F. Kennedy beat Republican Richard M. Nixon in a very close race. Two and-a-half weeks later, Mrs. Kennedy gave birth to their second child, John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.

On January 20, , John Fitzgerald Kennedy took the oath of office to become the nation's 35th president. At age 31, Jacqueline Kennedy was the first lady. With her gracious personal style and her passion for history and the arts, she worked hard to be worthy of her new role. While she had a deep sense of obligation to her country, her first priorities were to be a good wife to her husband and mother to her children.

She told a reporter that "if you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. Kennedy soon set about making the White House into a real home for her family. She turned the sun porch on the third floor into a kindergarten school for Caroline and 12 to 15 other children, who came every morning at There was also a swimming pool, a swing set, and a tree house on the White House lawn for Caroline and John Jr.

Kennedy also thought about what the White House represented to its many visitors and to citizens everywhere. She wanted people to have a greater appreciation of the history of America's most famous residence and its past inhabitants.

Her first major project as first lady was to restore and preserve the White House. Gathering outstanding examples of American art and furniture from around the United States including many items that had belonged to former presidents and their families , she restored all the public rooms in the White House.

CBS Television asked Mrs. Kennedy to present a televised tour of the newly restored White House. Eighty million Americans watched the broadcast, and it earned Jacqueline Kennedy an honorary Emmy Award. The Kennedys brought a new, youthful spirit to the White House, which they believed should be a place to celebrate American history, culture, and achievement. As first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy planned important dinners and events at the White House and invited artists, writers, scientists, poets, and musicians to mingle with politicians, diplomats, and statesmen.

Kennedy to thank her. To many of us it is one of the most exciting developments on the present American cultural scene. Kennedy also influenced the world of fashion. Privately, she supplied her husband with numerous literary and historical examples and quotations that he used in his speeches. Jacqueline Kennedy influenced her husband to invite numerous artists in all disciplines to his inaugural ceremony as a symbol of the new Administration's intended support of the arts.

Her appearance in a large pillbox hat for the swearing-in ceremony, however, eclipsed this news and began a popular millinery style. First Lady : , January 20 - , November 22 31 years old Jacqueline Kennedy entered the role of First Lady by declaring that her priorities were her young children and maintaining her family's privacy.

Nevertheless, during the weeks before the inauguration, she began her plans to not only redecorate the family quarters of the White House but to historically restore the public rooms. She created a committee of advisors led by Americana expert Henry Dupont, with sub-committees led by experts on painting, furniture and books. By March , Jacqueline Kennedy was scouring government warehouses in search of displaced White House furnishings, and soliciting the nation to donate important historical and artistic items.

As part of this effort, she successfully pressed Senator Clint Anderson and the 87th Congress to pass what became Public Law that would make such donated items the inalienable property of the White House.

Since the restoration project was privately funded, she helped to create a White House Historical Association, an entity which was able to raise funds through the sale to the public of a book she conceived, The White House: An Historic Guide.

She also successfully pressed for the creation of the federal position of White House Curator to permanently continue the effort of protecting the historical integrity of the mansion. Her legacy of fostering an national interest in historic preservation extended to her own "neighborhood," when she reversed a previous federal plan to destroy the historic Lafayette Square across from the White House and helped to negotiate not only a restoration of old buildings there, but a reasonable construction of new buildings with modern use.

Jacqueline Kennedy also sought to use the White House to "showcase" the arts. She became the most prominent proponent for the establishment of the National Cultural Center in the nation's capital, eventually to be named for her husband. At the White House she hosted performances of opera, ballet, Shakespeare and modern jazz, all performed by American companies.

From Malraux, she developed ideas on the eventual creation of a U. Department of the Arts and Humanities, an undertaking she discussed with Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell and one that she anticipated would emerge with the creation of a presidential arts advisor and advisory board in The eventual creation of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Arts achieved her goal, she later reflected.

Contrary to the image of "lovely inconsequence" that her friend, historian Arthur Schlesinger characterized her as feigning, Jacqueline Kennedy had an intense interest in the substantive issues faced by the Administration; she kept this covert, however, believing that public knowledge of her views would distract from the uncontroversial historic and arts projects she adopted. On August 7, , Patrick Bouvier Kennedy was born. He died three days later.

In November of Jackie Kennedy accompanied her husband on a trip to Texas. She was riding by his side when he was assassinated.

In the days that followed John Kennedy's death the image of his widow and children, and the dignity with which they conducted themselves, were very much a part of the nation's experience of mourning and loss. Jackie became an icon and a symbol. In the years immediately after her husband's death Jackie Kennedy was seen very much in the role of his widow, while at the same time there was constant speculation about whether or not she would remarry. Jackie was actively involved in Bobby Kennedy's bid for election as president in After his assassination in June she was again a prominent figure at a very public funeral.

He was 62 and she was Jackie spent large portions of her time in New York to be with her children. As the years went by, the Onassis marriage was rumored to be a difficult one, and the couple began to spend most of their time apart.

Aristotle Onassis died in and, widowed for a second time, Jackie returned permanently to New York. In she began working as a book editor at Viking amidst much speculation about whether or not she would be able to get along with her fellow workers, or if her very presence would make it difficult for the office to function.

She quickly adapted to her new job and remained at Viking until she resigned in In she took a job as an associate editor at Doubleday Publishing where she continued to work into the s. In she was promoted to full editor and later became a senior editor. In Jackie Kennedy made public the information that she was being treated for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and that her condition was responding well to therapy. Ford realized the power of her position as first lady early on, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after her husband took office.

Kennedy entered the Senate after winning a special As the wife of one president, George H. Bush , and the mother of another, George W. Bush , Barbara Bush holds a unique position in American political history. Born in , she married at the age of 19 and devoted much her time to raising her five children She was the first lady of the United States from to , while her husband Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th president.

Happy and energetic in her youth, she suffered subsequent ill health and personal Laura Bush was an American first lady and the wife of George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States. As a former public shool teacher and librarian, Laura Bush championed the causes of education and literacy before and during her time in the White House.

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