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lasted only three months) her father, John V. Kennedy in September, 1953, in Newport, R. Story 5's obvious point-that Jackie is capable of writing compassionate notes to people when the chips are down-should not have surprised me because by the time I heard Story 5, I was already familiar with two quite similar instances of Jackie's letter‐writing kindness. Since it seemed a little late in the day, a little late in the century to be startled by anything one heard about the world's most written‐about wom an, I tried to analyze my surprise. When I was told the five stories, only one-Story 5-surprised me it was somehow at odds with what I thought I already knew about Jackie. SUSAN SHEEHAN is a writer on the staff of The New Yorker. Other days it's Story 4's bitchy Jackie, who at some time or another has mimicked and made scornful re marks about every friend and relative she has ever had, or the sensitive Jackie of Story 5, whose note was among the kindest Teddy Kennedy found in his mail last summer. Sometimes it's the sassy, devil‐may‐care enfant terrible of Story 1, sometimes the willful European traveler of Story 2, some times the fey creature of Story 3. ONE of the most agieeable aspects of writing about Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis is that when you set out on a morning to interview her acquaintances, you never know which Jackie is going to be described. The note said that Caroline Kennedy had been without a godfather since her Uncle Bobby's death the previous year and that she would very much like to have her Uncle Teddy take his place as godfather. STORY 5: A short while after his Chappaquiddick troubles last sum mer, Senator Edward Kennedy re ceived a note from his former sister in‐law, Jacqueline Onassis. I almost stepped on him in the elevator.” “Oh yes,” she answered, “I did see him the other day. The friend asked Jackie if she'd recently seen -, a tiny, thin, gay interior decorator who had been helping her embellish her New York apartment. STORY 4: In 1966, a friend of Jacqueline Kennedy's was chatting with her about various mutual ac quaintances. When Jacqueline Kennedy's turn came, she said, “I'd like to be a bird.” The second player, an actress, said she'd like to be the Queen of Eng land. On Saturday a game was devised: each person present would answer the question, “What's your secret Walter Mitty fantasy?” The first player, a patron of the arts, said he'd like to be a jazz pianist. Kennedy's widow was spend ing a quiet weekend at the country home of friends. “Well, I've considered asking Americans to stay home next summer,” Kennedy re plied, “but how on earth can I do that when I can't even keep my own wife from going abroad?” The friend asked the President how he proposed to remedy the situation. Kennedy was work ing on his balance‐of‐payments mes sage to Congress, he explained to friend that in 1960 American tourists had spent over a billion dollars more on their trips abroad than foreign tourists had spent in the United States and that this sum was the big gest single item in our deficit in in ternational payments. STORY 2: In early 1961, while President John F. Husted offered her prospective daughter‐in‐law childhood snapshot of her son.
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took his fiancée Jacqueline Bouvier to see his mother. STORY 1: One day in January, 1952, John Husted Jr.