| Show M L0V1 WITH MGNRcontinued Pswere while they woe paddling around the White House swimming pool “Not just John and Caroline and not just the children in America but children ail over the world who will suffer and die for the decision I have to make” Later that day Powers went to the family quarters in the White House to deliver a folder “Coming into the dimly lit living room to give the President the papers Powers heard Jack’s voice as he talked quietly and he assumed that he was alone speaking to somebody on the telephone” said Kenny O’Donnell JFK’s appointment secretary “Then he saw the President sitting in a chair with Caroline on his lap reading to her from a storybook” O’Donnell added: “Dave said to me later ‘I watched him sitting there with Caroline I thought of what he had been saying to me in the pool about how worried he was about the children everywhere in the world and you know I got the strangest feeling I handed him the papers and got out of there as fast as I could I was all choked Ml up Others noticed a marked change in Jack's treatment of Jackie During the height of the missile crisis he called Jackie at their weekend home in Virginia and asked her to return to Washington so that he could spend the next few nights alone with her and their - two children “If it had been earlier in their marriage I don’t think he would have called her” said Charles Spalding a friend of both Jack and Jackie “But things were beginning to break up in Jack’s head” Indeed the October 1962 missile cri- sis marked the turning point in Kennedy’s attitude toward Jackie “After the Cuban missile crisis Jack and Jackie became more personal with each other” said Angier Biddle Duke the chief of protocol in die Kennedy Administration “Jack became more focused He got to die point He understood what it meant to exercise power Jackie started to talk about him in a more personal way Like ‘Angie the President is tired Lay off him okay? She seemed more concerned about him as a person I could see them working more closely together” Until then the marriage had been maned by John Kennedy's compulsive womanizing In his adulterous behavior he exhibited as little regard for other women as he did for his own wife He cavorted with nude women in the White House swimming pool He brought movie stars like Marilyn Mon- roe into the Presidential bedroom He E |
