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At just 34, and in what her daughter, Caroline Kennedy, describes in a foreword to the book as the extreme stages of grief, Mrs. Kennedy displays a cool self-possession and a sharp, somewhat unforgiving eye. In her distinctive breathy cadences, an intimate tone and the impeccable diction of women of her era and class, she delivers tart commentary on former presidents, heads of state, her husbands aides, powerful women, women reporters, even her mother-in-law.
Charles DeGaulle, the French president, is that egomaniac. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a phony whom electronic eavesdropping has found arranging encounters with women. Indira Gandhi, the future prime minister of India, is a real prune bitter, kind of pushy, horrible woman.
She suggests that violently liberal women in politics preferred Adlai Stevenson, the former Democratic presidential nominee, to Mr. Kennedy because they were scared of sex. Of Madame Nhu, the sister-in-law of the president of South Vietnam, and Clare Boothe Luce, a former member of Congress, she tells Mr. Schlesinger, in a stage whisper, I wouldnt be surprised if they were lesbians.
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HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)upper-class 'lady who lunches'.
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)monmouth3
(3,871 posts)speak like that...
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)associations.
her 'accent' is very much like her cousin edie beale's, except with more of a breathless quality.
avebury
(10,952 posts)want to release the tapes or have a book done about it. The tapes really don't show her mother in a very positive light.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)certainly she knew that JFK had one woman after another stashed away or brought into the White House when she was away.