Much like Jackie would have liked to have done. Or even Betty Ford, whom we could all admire for dealing courageously with her personal problems, but who has seemingly faded into the woodwork. And, perhaps now, if that had occurred, we'd be thinking of Jackie in the same terms as, say, Joan Kennedy, who put up with her obnoxiously immature husband for far too long before divorcing him. Just a disgraced, impeached president and a long-suffering wife free to finally divorce him. His so-called "womanizing" (such a quaint word for basic trampiness) would have landed him in the doghouse shortly after he entered the White House. Kennedy were president now, when we scrutinize the private lives of our public officials so intensely, instead of in the Sixties, it seems unlikely that he would have survived the presidency, even if he hadn't been assassinated. When asked what she fed her German Shepherd puppy, Jackie smiled slyly and said, "Reporters." If John F. Detail from James Spada's Jackie: Her Life in Pictures
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