President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

I am not very introspective.

I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

Whole generations have forgotten history.

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.