tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52257908095266471362024-03-05T09:39:38.312-08:00Jackie O's Third ActThis is a blog for my book Jackie After O: One Remarkable Year When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Defied Expectations and Rediscovered Her Dreams. This blog celebrates midlife transitions -- and Jackie.Tina Cassidyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14636705157835152712noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225790809526647136.post-58039242301419124102014-05-17T05:48:00.001-07:002014-05-17T05:50:03.025-07:00The legacy of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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On the 20th anniversary of her death, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is remembered for more than being a wife and First Lady. Her legacy extends to her role as a book editor and preservation activist, someone who embraced her third act when she was a widow again in middle age with her children grown. Here are some thoughts that I shared on Inside Edition.</div>
Tina Cassidyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14636705157835152712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225790809526647136.post-9709228810711709512014-05-17T05:31:00.001-07:002014-05-17T05:31:50.511-07:00Why I'm Running the Boston Marathon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Tina Cassidyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14636705157835152712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225790809526647136.post-10641219040342306402014-02-23T17:51:00.001-08:002014-02-23T17:54:15.779-08:00A Stack of Books<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Just thought I would share a photo of the backstairs leading to my kitchen. They are painted to look like the covers of my two books -- Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born; and Jackie After O -- and the middle three that my husband Anthony Flint wrote. If you look closely, you'll see that there's room for one more. Taking bets as to which one of us will claim it. Regardless, we're grateful to Boston artist <a href="http://www.ohara-arts.com/"><span style="color: orange;">Jane O'Hara</span></a> for doing an amazing trompe l'oeil stack that makes our home even more special to us. <br />
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Tina Cassidyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14636705157835152712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225790809526647136.post-54166124572677473882014-01-28T08:03:00.000-08:002014-02-03T18:51:20.873-08:0010 reasons why I am running the Boston Marathon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> 1. Because I have two legs.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> 2. Because I am alive.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> 3. Because I don’t take #1 or #2 or so many other lesser
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4. Because it’s for the <a href="http://www.teammr8.org/about/history"><span style="color: red;">GREATEST possible cause</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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5. Because Boston is my home.</div>
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> 6. Because I’ve been a spectator for long enough.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> 7. Because if not now, when?</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> 8. Because I’d like to experience a marathon as
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> 9. Because I don’t want my sons’ most poignant
marathon memory to involve a lock-down.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> 10. </span><span style="font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Because I need the exercise.</span></div>
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Tina Cassidyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14636705157835152712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225790809526647136.post-78091083054703466482013-11-28T08:17:00.000-08:002013-11-28T08:17:32.229-08:00Ben Bradlee's new book, The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I highly recommend my friend Ben Bradlee's new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Kid-Immortal-Life-Williams/dp/0316614351">The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams</a>. And because this is what authors and journalists do for each other, I have volunteered to tape a video clue for a contest being run by our mutual friend Scot Lehigh, a columnist for the Boston Globe. Here it is.</div>
Tina Cassidyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14636705157835152712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225790809526647136.post-39144581477907602542013-11-22T06:00:00.000-08:002013-11-22T06:07:11.052-08:00What we remember on Nov. 22<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Does this one sentence, a quote from the nurse at Parkland Hospital, solve the mystery of what happened to Jackie's pink pillbox hat 50 years ago today?<br />
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"Some time later, Hinchliffe said, she learned that she had thrown away the pink pillbox hat that Jacqueline Kennedy wore that day. It was with the flowers she removed from the president’s stretcher when he was wheeled into the hospital."<br />
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You can read the nurse's story in <a href="http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/09/07/5143170/we-had-done-all-we-could-do-i.html">this piece</a> from the Fort Worth Star Telegram. It's difficult to know what really happened in that chaos.<br />
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Though there remain many other mysteries from that awful day, what we do know is that Jackie, like her country, persevered. She raised her children, established a career as a book editor -- not for the money but because she enjoyed the intellectual stimulation -- and became a preservation activist to save important buildings such as Grand Central Terminal. Those more life-affirming aspects are always what I prefer to remember each Nov. 22, especially this one.</div>
Tina Cassidyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14636705157835152712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225790809526647136.post-36578912510413997092013-03-27T16:29:00.002-07:002013-03-27T16:49:40.927-07:00Jackie After O is Out in Paperback<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My book came out in paperback today. The cover photo is by Ron Galella, the papparazzo who stalked Jacqueline Kennedy Onasiss for years. I'll be giving a talk at the <a href="http://www.92y.org/Tribeca/Event/Jackie-After-O.aspx"><span style="color: orange;">92nd Street Y in Tribeca on April 18th</span></a> to celebrate the soft cover and talk about Jackie's quest to find herself during the tumultuous year of 1975.</div>
Tina Cassidyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14636705157835152712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225790809526647136.post-49541345586547945202013-02-05T18:29:00.001-08:002013-02-05T18:30:46.278-08:00Jackie O's Role in Saving Grand Central Terminal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My latest <a href="http://www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2013/02/surprising-role-jackie-kennedy-playing-saving-grand-central-station/4596/"><span style="color: orange;">post</span></a>, on the Atlantic Cities blog, about what celebrities today could learn from Jackie O's fight to save Grand Central Terminal (which turns 100 this month).</div>
Tina Cassidyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14636705157835152712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225790809526647136.post-70730650370927200362013-01-20T12:59:00.000-08:002013-01-20T13:08:30.332-08:00Inaugural gowns<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Besides the choices of Jacqueline Kennedy and Michelle Obama, there's been a whole lot of frump that has happened on Inauguration night. This is a great gallery of the gowns worn<span style="background-color: white; color: blue;"> </span><a href="http://www.people.com/people/gallery/0,,20252752_20566792,00.html#20566792"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="background-color: white;">over the last 50 years</span>.</span></a><span style="color: orange;"> </span>What's your favorite?</div>
Tina Cassidyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14636705157835152712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225790809526647136.post-47475145791387883252012-11-01T03:51:00.001-07:002012-11-02T03:42:07.542-07:00Letitia Baldrige, A Central Figure in Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' Life, Has Died<img height="400" src="http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/fe/5d/fe5d4f8c0e20af26368733841674331414f6744.jpg" width="276" /><br />
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I was very sorry to hear that<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2012/10/31/jackie-kennedy-social-secretary-letitia-baldrige-dead/1671603/"> Letitia Baldrige has died</a>. As Jacqueline Kennedy's White House social secretary, she helped the First Lady elevate the 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to a magical stage filled with arts and culture -- and hard liquor.<br />
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But I will always think of her as more than that. I spoke with Tish for many hours as I was working on my book about Jackie's Third Act. In the same way that Jackie's little-girl voice belied her fierce intellect, Tish had a high-pitched Julia Child-like voice, but was tough as nails. She enjoyed eating in what she described as the "mess hall" in the White House so she could argue with the boys. And she delayed having a family (when doing such was not common) so she could work around the clock during the Kennedy Administration. She later became an expert on juggling work and family and even <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/juggling-letitia-baldrige/1005892935">wrote a book by that title</a> which she was working on in 1975 when Jackie, who had just become a widow for a second time, had lunch with her.<br />
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Jackie was depressed. Tish told me that when her old friend entered the Sulgrave Club in Washington to dine with her, she was impeccably dressed, but "drooping." Tish gave her sage advice, telling Jackie to stop hiding her intelligence "under a bushel" and to go get job.<br />
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"Me, work?"Jackie asked.<br />
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Tish suggested publishing, a job that would offer flexibility as well stimulation. Jackie loved to read -- and write. Tish offered to introduce her to<a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2010/09/09/thomas-guinzburg-1926-2010/">Tom Guinzburg</a>, her own publisher at Viking, where Jackie several months later would land her first job as an editor -- a career that she embraced for the rest of her life.<br />
<br />Tina Cassidyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14636705157835152712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225790809526647136.post-26935501757587687432012-10-29T06:30:00.000-07:002012-10-29T06:30:25.863-07:00Jackie O cake popMy mom had these made for a book talk I did yesterday. Not only adorable (love the pearls and the sunglasses), but delicious. Made by <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sweet-Temptations/117160924969563">Sweet Temptations</a> in Rhode Island, where Jackie spent her summers growing up.<br />
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<a href="http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/53602_440237812705826_1923632527_o.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="360" src="http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/53602_440237812705826_1923632527_o.jpg" width="640" /></a>Tina Cassidyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14636705157835152712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225790809526647136.post-20563879756347681882012-07-28T05:55:00.000-07:002012-07-28T05:55:04.290-07:00Happy birthday, Jackie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyOMUrBnKTG2ScRb-WOyXqvi6Zyea6EE0uvXNyfGm6oEHHx3vBUnQqTSmpiDhFYas8L4B_qFqSIt-KykcT7E_DeqbfWXOj9zwAEX55gg9Cn5gR1i9wc2kKvR8FK32JWy7k4m8OUDV3KgaZ/s1600/JBKO+1979.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyOMUrBnKTG2ScRb-WOyXqvi6Zyea6EE0uvXNyfGm6oEHHx3vBUnQqTSmpiDhFYas8L4B_qFqSIt-KykcT7E_DeqbfWXOj9zwAEX55gg9Cn5gR1i9wc2kKvR8FK32JWy7k4m8OUDV3KgaZ/s320/JBKO+1979.jpg" width="251" /></a></div>Today, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis would have turned 83. If she were still here, I imagine she'd be kicking around the Vineyard, reading a book. Or perhaps that's just how I'd like to spend my birthday.Tina Cassidyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14636705157835152712noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225790809526647136.post-51685500745226947022012-07-14T03:51:00.001-07:002012-07-14T03:54:34.842-07:00<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">My Cape Cod vacation coincided with the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://jfkhyannismuseum.org/index.php/2012/06/special-summer-exhibit-opens-at-jfk-museum-on-june-28-jackie-kennedy-life-on-cape-cod/">JFK Hyannis Museum’s exhibit</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>on Jacqueline Kennedy’s summers in Hyannis Port. (Kennedy Secret Service Agent<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://jackieosthirdact.blogspot.com/2011/09/jacqueline-kennedys-still-sorta-secret.html">Clint Hill</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>will be giving a talk there later this month.) Although I’d been to the nearby Kennedy compound years ago for a political clam bake, I’d never been to this museum, a fitting tribute to a local son. So it was not surprising that pictures of Jack, mostly in color – all wind-swept hair, kids swarming, Secret Service lurking, khakis and blue blazers -- that first greet you inside, along with his quote on the wall: “I always come back to the Cape and walk on the beach when I have a tough decision to make. The Cape is one place I can think alone.”<o:p></o:p></span><u1:p></u1:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Seems like he was rarely alone, though, or idle enough to think. There he is being interviewed by Walter Cronkite on the expansive lawn; deposited on the ground by Marine One with Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson; golfing at the Hyannis Port Golf Club; leaving Saint Francis Xavier Church in Hyannis; conferring with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Undersecretary Averell Harriman in the living room of the family home; and piloting the Honey Fitz.<o:p></o:p></span><u1:p></u1:p></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><br />
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was a master at PR. That was clear before JFK was elected president and she wrote campaign dispatches that were sent out over the wire. And it was clear after she became First Lady, when she turned the spotlight on culture and the arts in America.</div>
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But Jackie’s public relations genius also extended to six major historic preservation projects – including saving Grand Central Terminal, a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court -- in which she was pivotal. Here are five things anyone in PR (that includes me) can learn from Jackie’s masterstrokes:</div>
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<strong>1. </strong><strong>Be likeable.</strong> It may seem obvious that whether it’s you or your client, the golden rule applies. But being likeable is more than just about being nice to others. It means you need to understand other perspectives, and take your messages to where they are. Speak their language, literally. Jackie spoke French to the French. She spoke Spanish in Miami to the in the Latino community. In both cases, her audience was enthralled by the respect she showed for their culture. And they could not help but like her, which translated into votes, bankable good will, a bigger stage, and influence over more people.</div>
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<strong>2. </strong><strong>Identify the Influencers.</strong> In her effort to stop the Eisenhower-inspired demolition of the Federalist-era townhomes lining Lafayette Square in front of the White House to make room for modernist government buildings, Jackie quickly found the one person who could at least slow the project “down to a walk.” That person was the man who wrote the checks at the General Services Administration. She pled her case to him, which bought enough time for her to find a new architect who could solve the problem. In the end, architect John C. Warnecke found a way to build the new space behind the old, keeping the historic façades.</div>
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<strong>3. </strong><strong>Be selective involving the media. </strong>She gave a dramatic televised tour of the White House in in 1963 (for which she won an honorary Emmy and 50 million people tuned in). Later, in 1975,<strong> </strong>Jackie was horrified to learn that Grand Central faced a destructive office tower redevelopment plan. While she rarely gave interviews, especially in her post-White House years, she knew there was only one way to force the beleaguered city to take notice – call a press conference. She was the star of the event, held in the train station’s famous Oyster Bar. When she spoke, the press went absolutely silent, until the camera flashes popped. Again, in<strong> </strong>1982, when Lever House on Park Avenue was threatened to be torn down, Jackie identified the influencer (New York Comptroller Jay Goldin), met him at City Hall, and made sure the paparazzi were there when she kissed him on the cheek out front. Jackie got her way. She employed the same tactic in 1984, when, in an effort to stop St. Bartholomew’s Church in Manhattan from being torn down, she had her picture taken with legislators in Albany. They, too, voted her way.</div>
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<strong>4. </strong><strong>Give good quotes – and write moving letters. </strong>In the Grand Central case, Jackie hand-wrote an appeal to then-mayor Abraham Beame in which she said: “Is it not cruel to let our city die by degrees…?” He had to agree. In 1987, in her campaign to block developer Mort Zuckerman from building an enormous tower at Columbus Circle in New York, she eloquently complained: “They’re stealing our sky!” Nothing new was built there in her lifetime.</div>
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<strong> </strong><strong>5. </strong><strong>Be political, when applicable</strong>. Jackie learned from the best of them – the Kennedy family. Before she undertook any campaign – whether it was restoring the White House (and getting the public to donate rare antiques rather than asking taxpayers to foot the bill) or saving Lafayette Square, she made sure she understood the legalities involved and how public perception would affect the decisions elected officials made; who needed political cover and how she could provide it; and how a story would play on Main Street. In a way, being political means being masterful at all four of the above tenets, which Jackie was in spades.</div>
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I first published this post on my company's blog, Inklings. Check it out <a href="http://www.inkhouse.net/inklings-blog/">here</a>.</div>
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where I will talk about my new book </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061994332/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_g14_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0AMEFBHEBZ1JR09ZQK3C&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846">Jackie
After O</a><span style="color: #222222;"> and take personal questions from the audience (that’s you)!
We will be using a brand new platform called </span><a href="http://www.shindigevents.com/">Shindig</a><span style="color: #222222;"> that will allow each and every
one of us to video chat, no matter how big the audience. It should be a
lot of fun so I hope you can make it. I
have an </span><a href="http://tinacassidy.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Eventbrite page</span></a><span style="color: #222222;"> where you can sign up.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When you RSVP you will
receive a confirmation with the link to my event and two automated reminders – one for the morning of the Shindig and
one 10 minutes before the event starts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please, please, don't let my mother be the only attendee.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, tomorrow night is another kind of shindig -- my book launch party -- in real life, as my son would say.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a<a href="http://pinterest.com/tinacassidy2/planning-a-disco-party/"> disco theme</a> -- the book centers on 1975, the year of the Hustle -- and I just got word that the disco ball was delivered to the venue. Christopher Muther, the most awesome DJ and fashion writer I've ever known, says he is ready to spin. (Isn't he cute?)</span><br />
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What's even more fitting about this story is that the Addison Mizner-designed home, which Joseph P. Kennedy bought in 1933 for $100,000 from the family of retailer John Wanamaker a decade after it was built, itself became a landmark, preserved by its new owner, the New York investor John K. Castle. He paid $4.9 million for the property in 1995 and restored it over four years, keeping its history in tact.<br />
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By the way, the talk is open to the public, perfectly timed for the Congress of the New Urbanism, in town at the same time.Tina Cassidyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14636705157835152712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225790809526647136.post-2297403199983337522012-04-17T09:13:00.000-07:002012-04-17T09:13:08.764-07:00TV sneak peak on Jackie After OA sneak peak <a href="http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/morning/jackie-after-o-a-mid-life-crisis-20120417">TV interview</a> for the book, due out May 1.<br />
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'Honey Fitz,' JFK's grandfather, throws out the first pitch at Fenway.<br />
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There's Robert Kennedy at a JFK memorial game in 1964.<br />
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Ted Kennedy doing a victory lap with Hall of Fame slugger Jim Rice.<br />
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A recent snap of former Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II with his son Joe the 3rd, now running for Congress himself (in my district).Tina Cassidyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14636705157835152712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225790809526647136.post-10162453069882362652012-04-10T17:12:00.001-07:002012-04-10T20:10:26.684-07:00Jackie After O ArrivesMy book arrived fresh from the printer and it was placed on the dining table. Over dinner, my husband said, "so, what do you think?"<br />
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Me: "About what?"<br />
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Him: "The book."<br />
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Me: "Oh. That."<br />
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The truth is, writing a book is a lot more of a romantic concept than actually publishing it. It's like being pregnant vs. being a new parent, with a baby that needs alot of care and feeding. Both stages are awesome. And both are work. It's just that once the baby arrives, you are so cross-eyed with exhaustion that you are eager for a new phase. Anyway, here it is: My new baby!<br />
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Jackie perfectly fit<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophy_wife"> the definition of a trophy wife</a>. She was much younger than her husband, beautiful, and popular. She did not work. She didn't have to. In fact she had not had a traditional "job" since the day JFK proposed and she quit her post as columnist at the Washington Times-Herald when she was 23. She was 39 when she married Onassis, and he was 30 years older (and shorter), although he habitually lied about his age, saying he was 7 years younger.<br />
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Jackie and Ari<br />
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When I saw this <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/fashion/dont-call-cassandra-huysentruyt-grey-a-trophy-wife.html?pagewanted=all">story about Cassandra<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">Huysentruyt </span>Grey </span></a>(aka the Princess of Bel-Air), the young, pretty, second wife of Paramount Pictures Chairman and CEO Brad Grey, I thought it was going to be an iteration on the Jackie + Ari theme.<br />
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Turns out, Cassandra has ambition! She may even have talent! She's nice! How refreshing.<br />
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Moreover, it appears to be a trend.<br />
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Given recent economic changes -- the same ones that stifled the bitter banter of the Mommy Wars-- and some sociological shifts related to women and education -- times have changed since Jackie wore knee-length Valentino for her Greek Orthodox wedding ceremony. Today, to have a wife (even if she is the second or third) who is smart, has a job and perhaps even a business plan or a PhD, means more than it did in 1968. It means that the man is not a conspicuous consumer. It means that he does not want to devalue himself by telegraphing to the world that the only reason why his unattractive self is with a gorgeous, much younger woman, is because of his money. It means that he is evolved.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There was a fascinating<a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200401/the-new-trophy-wife"> piece in Psychology Today</a> about the rise of the "power bride," which boils down to this scientific revelation: "<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">A woman's ability to hold a steady job [now matters] more than her age, previous marriages, maternal statu<span style="font-family: inherit;">s, </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/religion" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" title="Psychology Today looks at Religion">religion</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"> or race. Men were more willing to marry women with more, rather than less, education than they themselves had. A wise move, since women eclipse men at the same rates at which they attain bachelor's a</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">nd master's degrees, and the number of women pursuing higher education continues to steadily climb."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">And there was this nugget: "</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">According to a Match.com poll, 48 percent of men (and an equal percentage of women) reported </span><a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/mating" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" title="Psychology Today looks at Mating ">dating</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"> partners who drew the same income as they did."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">To flip around the trophy concept, there may be a new definition for women wanting to "have it all." They may want to have a successful and/or powerful husband, but not at the expens</span><span style="font-size: 14px;">e of their own success or power.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Which brings me back to Jackie. After Ari died in 1975, Jackie got a job. Not because she needed one, but because she had a voracious intellect and it made her happy. It should also be said that while later that year she began to forge what would become a relationship with her longtime boyfriend Maurice Tempelsman (also successful) she never got remarried -- never again to be a trophy wife.</span></span>Tina Cassidyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14636705157835152712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225790809526647136.post-35119226973964237192012-04-08T18:25:00.001-07:002012-04-09T05:12:09.401-07:00Mike Wallace and Jackie OReading Mike Wallace's <a href="http://nyti.ms/IaQGP4">obituary</a> in the New York Times today, I was struck by the length and vigor of his remarkable journalism career, as well as his personal life. I was also reminded of an anecdote about him that I learned while researching my <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jackie-After-Remarkable-Expectations-Rediscovered/dp/0061994332">book</a>.<br />
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In 1975, the year her husband, Aristotle Onassis, died and her daughter, Caroline, was graduating from high school, Jackie had a midlife crisis -- and decided to get a job. She eventually found one, as an editor at Viking, where a few weeks into her new position, her assistant received a phone call from Mike Wallace's secretary.<br />
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"I have Mr. Wallace on the phone for you," the woman told Jackie's young assistant, Rebecca Singleton.<br />
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Singleton was annoyed that he made his secretary call, and that the woman referred to her boss as "Mr. Wallace."<br />
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When his booming voice shot through the phone, he said: "Hi, Becky!"<br />
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Rebecca hated the diminutive version of her name.<br />
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"How are we gonna get Jackie on 60 Minutes?" Wallace asked.<br />
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Her response: You're not.<br />
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He had blown it at hello.Tina Cassidyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14636705157835152712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225790809526647136.post-80329087263672611752012-04-03T16:15:00.000-07:002012-04-03T16:15:47.164-07:00Google's new White House tourWhen I saw that the White House announced a new Google Street View of the White House interior rooms, with a focus on the artwork, I got a tingle of excitement. This is Michelle Obama's project -- a 21st Century approach to opening the White House to the public, in the tradition of what Jacqueline Kennedy did in 1962 with a televised tour, which won her an Emmy.<br />
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This is one of my favorite pictures of Jacqueline Onassis from 1975, the year when Aristotle Onassis died, she becomes engaged in the battle to save Grand Central from redevelopment ruin and she becomes a book editor. Essentially, 1975 is the year that Jackie has a midlife crisis -- she loses a husband, saves a landmark and finds herself.<br />
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The picture above is from a dramatic press conference held in the train terminal's famed Oyster Bar (see below for a picture I took recently -- still looks like 1975 inside!). I love the expression on her face, which reflects her serenity, power, and knowledge that she is the center of attention, sitting before a media horde from around the world, assembled in the subterranean restaurant to hear her big voice that sounded little.<br />
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Jackie proved herself to be a public relations mastermind when it came to repelling real estate developers' dreams of altering the built environment of New York City.<br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 32px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0.5in;">“If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future,” she said into a bank of microphones and over the din of flashbulbs popping. “We’ve all heard that it’s too late, or that it has to happen, that it’s inevitable. But I don’t think that’s true. Because I think if there is a great effort, even if it’s the eleventh hour, then you can succeed and I know that’s what we’ll do.”</span></div><div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 32px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 32px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0.5in;">Her words, which she had written herself, were spare. She knew from her political experiences that if she delivered a forty-five-minute speech it would lose its effectiveness and she would have a greater chance of being misquoted. Deliver a sound bite just right and the press had to use it. They had nothing else.</span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"><o:p></o:p></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Tina Cassidyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14636705157835152712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225790809526647136.post-2737578396839301042012-02-17T17:59:00.000-08:002012-02-17T17:59:28.210-08:00White House Restoration ReduxI've wondered for some time what happened to the White House interior after Jacqueline Kennedy so meticulously restored it with period-appropriate antiques, colors and grandeur. Did the Johnsons keep it as an untouchable mausoleum? Did Nancy Reagan paint it red?<br />
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I've got some answers.<br />
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On the 50th anniversary of Jackie's televised tour of her work at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, current White House <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/arts/design/the-white-house-curator-william-g-allman.html?pagewanted=all">Curator William Allman</a> explained this week that the place continues to evolve and has, in fact, changed quite a bit since the Kennedy era.<br />
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Here's how:<br />
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The East Room, where the Kennedys held that famous dinner for Nobel Prize winners, now has a rug, thanks to Barbara Bush, as well as restored red marble mantels, which Jackie had painted white. Here it is in her time.<br />
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This is it with the Bush rug...with the photo taken in the Clinton era.<br />
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The Blue Room has also seen many iterations. Here it was in 1963.<br />
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And here it is in 1972, with different paper and draperies.<br />
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The Nixons significantly changed the Green Room, moving out Jackie's Federal Period furniture and replacing it with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Phyfe">Duncan Phyfe</a> pieces.<br />
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The room went from this:<br />
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To this:<br />
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Laura Bush later added a jarring modernist painting by Jacob Lawrence to the room called "The Builders."<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can see it in context in this portrait of the Obama family. To the left of the President, out of sight, hangs a John Singer Sargent painting called <a href="http://jssgallery.org/Paintings/The_Mosquito_Net.htm">"Mosquito Net."</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikRlwLqL56wE3TPJgsqRCMZuAgUA6kvd0EhCE3UcCFBUviS4KkGEV4DVEUNOmN6dc_hHJy9sAqlhp2Ovp4ebq532LFLZZBMiUD7cImyNQggWn0ykp2iYaS08wRj876SU0Kl983lnWfgTop/s1600/obama-family-portrait.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikRlwLqL56wE3TPJgsqRCMZuAgUA6kvd0EhCE3UcCFBUviS4KkGEV4DVEUNOmN6dc_hHJy9sAqlhp2Ovp4ebq532LFLZZBMiUD7cImyNQggWn0ykp2iYaS08wRj876SU0Kl983lnWfgTop/s320/obama-family-portrait.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There is one room, however, that I think has been improved since Jackie last touched it: the Lincoln Bedroom. Jackie's version felt simple (as simple as a Victorian-furnished room could feel). But after seeing what Laura Bush did to it, the Camelot version seems unfinished. Fitting, perhaps.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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