He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.

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.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

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

Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.

It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.

I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way.