“When I married Ted in 1958, it wasn’t as dramatic as it might seem — it was more like marrying the boy next door.” [x]
Jack Kennedy’s emotional range is caught in this sequence by Jacques Lowe, taken while flying out of West Virginia en route to Nebraska in the spring of 1960. The candidate listens, laughs, questions, and evaluates. Jack’s cigars, lit or not, were calming props during this campaign drama but were rarely seen in public.
— Intimate and Unseen Photographs of the Kennedys by Jacques Lowe
In the final telling, Jackie had all of these things: taste, responsibility, endurance, and most especially courage. The courage to move beyond the tragedies that fate placed in front of her; the courage to raise her children simply and well; and the courage, finally, to live her life as she saw fit — intelligently, gracefully, even whimsically — putting society’s and others’ expectations of her aside. Through it all, she took her own measure and listened to her own inner reason.
— Jackie Style
Ted, It’s You in ‘72
Though Ted Kennedy, at the time the Senate Majority Whip, was considered a favorite going into the 1972 presidential campaign season, he declined to seek the Democratic Party nomination.
