Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Trivia and Quotes

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Trivia

  • Jacqueline traveled abroad to places such as Paris, Vienna, Greece, Italy, India, and Pakistan when she was First Lady. []
  • Jacqueline became First Lady of the United States at the age of 31. []
  • Jackie's first major job as First Lady was to restore the White House to give it more historical significance. []
  • Jacqueline had four children with John Kennedy: Arabella (stillborn), Caroline Bouvier, John Fitzgerald, Jr., Patrick (died at 2 days of age). []
  • Jacqueline married John F. Kennedy on September 12, 1953, at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island. []
  • Jacqueline studied history, literature, art, and French, at Vassar College in New York. []
  • After she learned how to ballroom dance, Jacqueline attended the old Metropolitan Opera House to take classical ballet lessons. []
  • Jackie was 5 feet, 7 1/2 inches tall. []
  • Miss Chapin's School was where Jackie started first grade. The school was on East End Avenue in New York. []
  • Jacqueline graduated from Miss Porter's School in June, 1947. It was a boarding school for adolescent girls in Connecticut. []
  • Jackie's first job was as the "Inquiring Photographer" for The Washington Times-Herald. []
  • Jacqueline's great great-grandfather, a potato-famine Irish immigrant, was a superintendent of New York City public schools. []
  • Jacqueline is still considered by many to be the most memorable First Lady of all time. []
  • In 1995, Jackie received the Women's International Center Living Legacy Award posthumously. []
  • Jackie used to smoke three packs of Salem cigarettes a day. []
  • Jackie won her first equestrian championship when she was just 5 years old. []
  • Jackie was dubbed "Debutante of the Year" for the 1947-1948 season in New York. []
  • The wedding dress Jacqueline wore when she married John F. Kennedy took 50 yards of ivory silk taffeta and two months to make. []
  • After finishing school, Jacqueline won a writing contest sponsored by Vogue magazine, but turned down the prize which was a one year job at the magazine. []
  • When she married Aristotle Onassis, she asked him to draw up a legal document as a wedding agreement asking for $20 million up front. []
  • She attended George Washington University, in Washington, D.C. []
  • Other than English, Jackie was fluent in Italian, French and Spanish []
  • She never spoke publically about her husband John F. Kennedy's murder. []

Quotes

  • Jacqueline: Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer. []
  • Jacqueline: What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they to do when the children were grown - watch raindrops coming down the windowpane? []
  • Jacqueline: One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author. []
  • Jacqueline: There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all. []
  • Jacqueline: Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me. []
  • Jacqueline: Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death. []
  • Jacqueline: I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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  • Jacqueline: There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed. []
  • Jacqueline: The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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  • Jackie (after John Kennedy's election win): I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady. []
  • Jackie: I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things. []
  • Jackie ( in a statement released by her after her husband's death): Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy. []

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