Book For The Week -- Jackie: Public, Private, Secret, J. Randy Taraborrelli, c. 2023

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Jackie: Public, Private, Secret, J. Randy Taraborrelli, c. 2023.

Foreword: How Remarkable
February 22, 1994

Begins: John Warnecke, 1040 Fifth Avenue, NYC, to visit his close friend and former lover, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Book 1: Becoming Jackie

"Nobody Knows The Real Jackie," November 22, 1963

It begins: "Every time we got of the plane that day, three times, they gave me the yellow roses of Texas. But in Dallas, they gave me red roses. I thought, how funny, red roses. The seat was full of blood and red roses."

"That Book", One Month Earlier, October, 1963

The first biography. A trusted family friend, Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer -- known as Molly -- who was a journalist.

The First Fiancé: John Husted

Begins: Janet and Hugh Auchincloss met John Husted in the spring of 1951 at a party in New York. 

What If  ... ?

1952: Jackie, her sister Lee (18), and her stepbrother, Yusha (24), half-sister, Janet (6), and half-brother, Jamie (5).

Jackie Finds Her Purpose: White House, 1961

January, 1961: the nation's new First Lady. Private quarters of the White House. Refurbishing begins.

Notes to be continued elsewhere.