The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. Would you notify the telephone operators and everyone else that I'm to be known simply as Mrs. Kennedy and not as First Lady.

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.