Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.
President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.
Before the Kennedys were elected, there had been older Presidents. Then here was this devastatingly attractive young couple with two beautiful children. They were so intelligent, graceful, gracious and funny. They enjoyed life so much. That's what caught America's eye.
I knew who Jackie Kennedy was in terms of being the wife of JFK and being a clothes horse, and I knew that she later married Onassis, but I had a very, very vague idea of who he was.
Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
I've learned to appreciate the thinking of John Kennedy.
I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage.
Television has an awful lot to do with the Kennedy mystique and the fact that he's frozen in people's minds at the age of 46, and he was handsome and personable and witty and charming.
My favorite actress is Marilyn Monroe.
I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.