Jackie Kennedy

Jackie Kennedy was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and First Lady of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

Bouvier was the elder daughter of Wall Street stockbroker John Vernou Bouvier III and socialite Janet Lee Bouvier. In 1951, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in French literature from George Washington University and went on to work for the Washington Times-Herald as an inquiring photographer.

Date of birth:
28th July, 1929
Date of death:
19th May, 1994
"I don’t understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting."
― Jackie Kennedy
Topic(s): Money
"The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship."
― Jackie Kennedy
Topic(s): Love
"What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown – watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?"
― Jackie Kennedy
Topic(s): History
"You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat."
― Jackie Kennedy
Topic(s): Good
"The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I’m thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family’s future."
― Jackie Kennedy
Topic(s): Faith
"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."
― Jackie Kennedy
Topic(s): Death
"There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all."
― Jackie Kennedy
Topic(s): Best
"I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?"
― Jackie Kennedy
Topic(s): Best

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