Jacqueline Bouvier was elected to the Senate that same year, and the couple married on September 12,1953, in Newport, Rhode Island.
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Jacqueline Bouvier was elected to the Senate that same year, and the couple married on September 12,1953, in Newport, Rhode Island.
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Jacqueline Bouvier died in 1994 and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery alongside President Kennedy.
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Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born on July 28,1929, at Southampton Hospital in Southampton, New York, to Wall Street stockbroker John Vernou "Black Jack" Bouvier III and socialite Janet Norton Lee.
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Jacqueline Bouvier's mother was of Irish descent, and her father had French, Scottish, and English ancestry.
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Jacqueline Bouvier's sister, Caroline Lee, was born four years later on March 3,1933.
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Jacqueline Bouvier spent her early childhood years in Manhattan and at Lasata, the Bouviers' country estate in East Hampton on Long Island.
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Jacqueline Bouvier looked up to her father, who likewise favored her over her sister, calling his elder child "the most beautiful daughter a man ever had".
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From an early age, Jacqueline Bouvier was an enthusiastic equestrienne and successfully competed in the sport, and horse-riding remained a lifelong passion.
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Jacqueline Bouvier took ballet lessons, was an avid reader, and excelled at learning foreign languages, including French, Spanish, and Italian.
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Jacqueline Bouvier was a bright student but often misbehaved; one of her teachers described her as "a darling child, the prettiest little girl, very clever, very artistic, and full of the devil".
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Jacqueline Bouvier's mother attributed this behavior to her finishing her assignments ahead of classmates and then acting out in boredom.
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Jacqueline Bouvier's behavior improved after the headmistress warned her that none of her positive qualities would matter if she did not behave.
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Jacqueline Bouvier formed the closest bond with Yusha, who became one of her most trusted confidants.
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Jacqueline Bouvier gave her a stable environment and the pampered childhood she otherwise would have never experienced.
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Jacqueline Bouvier chose Miss Porter's because it was a boarding school that allowed her to distance herself from the Auchinclosses and because the school placed an emphasis on college preparatory classes.
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Jacqueline Bouvier later hired her childhood friend Nancy Tuckerman to be her social secretary at the White House.
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Jacqueline Bouvier graduated among the top students of her class and received the Maria McKinney Memorial Award for Excellence in Literature.
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Jacqueline Bouvier had wanted to attend Sarah Lawrence College, closer to New York City, but her parents insisted that she choose the more isolated Vassar.
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Jacqueline Bouvier was an accomplished student who participated in the school's art and drama clubs and wrote for its newspaper.
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Jacqueline Bouvier had made her debut to high society in the summer before entering college and became a frequent presence in New York social functions.
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Jacqueline Bouvier spent her junior year in France—at the University of Grenoble in Grenoble, and at the Sorbonne in Paris—in a study-abroad program through Smith College.
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Jacqueline Bouvier followed the advice, left the job and returned to Washington after only one day of work.
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Jacqueline Bouvier moved back to Merrywood and was referred by a family friend to the Washington Times-Herald, where editor Frank Waldrop hired her as a part-time receptionist.
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Jacqueline Bouvier interviewed Tricia a few days after her father Richard Nixon was elected to the vice presidency in the 1952 election.
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Jacqueline Bouvier was attracted to Kennedy's physical appearance, wit and wealth.
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Jacqueline Bouvier took some time to accept, because she had been assigned to cover the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in London for The Washington Times-Herald.
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Additionally, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy suffered a miscarriage in 1955 and in August 1956 gave birth to a stillborn daughter, Arabella.
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John's mother Rose however observed that Jacqueline Bouvier was not "a natural-born campaigner" due to her shyness and was uncomfortable with too much attention.
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Jacqueline Bouvier credited Jacqueline's visibility in the ads and stumping as vital assets in securing his victory, and he called her "simply invaluable".
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That year, John Kennedy traveled to 14 states, but Jacqueline Bouvier took long breaks from the trips so she could spend time with their daughter, Caroline.
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Jacqueline Bouvier counseled her husband on improving his wardrobe in preparation for the presidential campaign planned for the following year.
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy did not attend the nomination due to her pregnancy, which had been publicly announced ten days earlier.
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Jacqueline Bouvier was in Hyannis Port when she watched the September 26,1960 debate—which was the nation's first televised presidential debate—between her husband and Republican candidate Richard Nixon, who was the incumbent vice president.
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Jacqueline Bouvier spent two weeks recuperating in the hospital, during which the most minute details of both her and her son's conditions were reported by the media in what has been considered the first instance of national interest in the Kennedy family.
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Jacqueline Bouvier insisted they kept a family home away from the public eye and rented Glen Ora at Middleburg.
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Jacqueline Bouvier was the first presidential wife to hire a press secretary, Pamela Turnure, and carefully managed her contact with the media, usually shying away from making public statements, and strictly controlling the extent to which her children were photographed.
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Jacqueline Bouvier decided to make the family quarters attractive and suitable for family life by adding a kitchen on the family floor and new rooms for her children.
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Jacqueline Bouvier personally wrote to possible donors in order to track down these missing furnishings and other historical pieces of interest.
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy initiated a Congressional bill establishing that White House furnishings would be the property of the Smithsonian Institution rather than available to departing ex-presidents to claim as their own.
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Jacqueline Bouvier founded the White House Historical Association, the Committee for the Preservation of the White House, the position of a permanent Curator of the White House, the White House Endowment Trust, and the White House Acquisition Trust.
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Jacqueline Bouvier was the first presidential spouse to hire a White House curator.
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On February 14,1962, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, accompanied by Charles Collingwood of CBS News, took American television viewers on a tour of the White House.
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Jacqueline Bouvier had found out on his visit to the White House that he and the First Lady had a common interest in horses.
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Jacqueline Bouvier spent most of the summer at a home she and the President had rented on Squaw Island, which was near the Kennedy compound on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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Jacqueline Bouvier did not realize that it was a gunshot until she heard Governor Connally scream.
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Jacqueline Bouvier continued to wear the blood-stained pink suit as she boarded Air Force One and stood next to Johnson when he took the oath of office as president.
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Jacqueline Bouvier requested a closed casket, overruling the wishes of her brother-in-law, Robert.
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Jacqueline Bouvier quoted Queen Guinevere from the musical, trying to express how the loss felt.
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Jacqueline Bouvier purchased a house for herself and her children in Georgetown but sold it later in 1964 and bought a 15th-floor penthouse apartment for $250,000 at 1040 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in the hopes of having more privacy.
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Jacqueline Bouvier oversaw the establishment of the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, which is the repository for official papers of the Kennedy Administration.
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Jacqueline Bouvier attended the funeral services of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Jacqueline Bouvier had been a source of support after she had suffered a miscarriage early in her marriage; it was he, not her husband, who stayed with her in the hospital.
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Jacqueline Bouvier credited her with convincing him to stay in politics, and she supported his 1964 run for United States senator from New York.
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Jacqueline Bouvier met with him around this time and encouraged him to run after she had previously advised him to not follow Jack, but to "be yourself".
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Jacqueline Bouvier confided in him about these feelings, but by her own account, he was "fatalistic" like her.
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy rushed to Los Angeles to join his wife Ethel, her brother-in-law Ted, and the other Kennedy family members at his hospital bedside.
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On October 20,1968, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy married her long-time friend Aristotle Onassis, a wealthy Greek shipping magnate who was able to provide the privacy and security she sought for herself and her children.
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The fact that Aristotle was divorced and his former wife Athina Livanos was still living led to speculation that Jacqueline Bouvier might be excommunicated by the Roman Catholic church, though that concern was explicitly dismissed by Boston's archbishop, Cardinal Richard Cushing, as "nonsense".
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Jacqueline Bouvier was condemned by some as a "public sinner", and became the target of paparazzi who followed her everywhere and nicknamed her "Jackie O".
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In 1968, billionaire heiress Doris Duke, with whom Jacqueline Bouvier Onassis was friends, appointed her as the vice president of the Newport Restoration Foundation.
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Jacqueline Bouvier developed a close relationship with Ted, and from then on he was involved in her public appearances.
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Jacqueline Bouvier died of respiratory failure aged 69 in Paris on March 15,1975.
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Jacqueline Bouvier participated in the subsequent presidential campaign, which was unsuccessful.
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Jacqueline Bouvier encouraged Dorothy West, her neighbor on Martha's Vineyard and the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, to complete the novel The Wedding, a multi-generational story about race, class, wealth, and power in the US.
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Jacqueline Bouvier ultimately obtained a restraining order against him, and the situation brought attention to the problem of paparazzi photography.
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Jacqueline Bouvier began chemotherapy in January 1994 and publicly announced the diagnosis, stating that the initial prognosis was good.
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Jacqueline Bouvier was interred at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, alongside President Kennedy, their son Patrick, and their stillborn daughter Arabella.
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Jacqueline Bouvier reestablished her relationship with the Kennedy family and supported the John F Kennedy Library and Museum.
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Jacqueline Bouvier was featured 27 times on the annual Gallup list of the top 10 most admired people of the second half of the 20th century; this number is superseded by only Billy Graham and Queen Elizabeth II and is higher than that of any US president.
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy became a global fashion icon during her husband's presidency.
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Jacqueline Bouvier set a new fashion trend with beltless, white jeans with a black turtleneck that was never tucked in and instead pulled down over her hips.
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Jacqueline Bouvier wore Schlumberger's gold and enamel bracelets so frequently in the early and mid-1960s that the press called them "Jackie bracelets"; she favored his white enamel and gold "banana" earrings.
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Jacqueline Bouvier was named Woman of the Year 1962 for her efforts in uplifting the American history and art.
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Jaclyn Smith portrays Jacqueline Kennedy in the 1981 television film Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, depicting her life until the end of the JFK presidency.
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