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SOCIETY-HOME JBHE bhejh j&.. K '-> Bl .%^O‘ , :« ts x "bi-V" r $$ MflV r>a ’wSM ’ I jl J w *K J Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy struggles to regain her , composure as she fights back the tears while i watching the American Flag being lifted from the * casket bearing the body of the late President A NEW CHAPTER ■■■■ ■ I I 11. 1 Attempts at Praise Fail By RAYMOND J. CROWLEY Auoclated Preu Buff Wrlur "Profiles In Courage,” the title reads. And before the next edition of John F. Kennedy’s book comes off the press, some one should prepare a new chapter—a chapter leading all the rest. 4 Thia—the world would agree—should bear the supple title: “Jacqueline.” Only who shall write it? Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides are dead these two millenla and more. We must, one feels, search out a new master of tragedy—a man privy to the souls of noble personalities erect under the bludgeoning of fate. A writer in a London newspaper tried, and fell short. For he seemed to relinquish reluctantly the no tion that only those who wear visible crowns are queens. Something We Lacked * "Jacqueline Kennedy,” he said, “has given the. American people from this day on one thing they have always lacked—majesty.” > Some said only a little while ago that she was merely a high echelon glamor girl. This winsome girl who: Bom of wealth, became a linquist, an Inquiring photographer for a newspaper, a horsewoman, a water skier, a lover of the arts new and old, a person who gazed long at the Mona Lisa while her husband champed to be off to his high duties, a woman who only last month sailed through the fabled Isles of lece dreaming “the dream of my life.” She is authentically a woman, too, for she some es has tarried over her toilette. . As on Friday, the black 22d of November, 1963. ‘ The President and she had been barnstorming 7*xas—she making perhaps a deeper impression than he. Coming out in a drizzle from their Fort Worth hotel, the President made a little speech to a street crowd. He was sorry his wife was late, he said with a grin. “She is organizing herself and it takes a little longer for her, but of course she looks a lot better Twe do.” Before Breakfast When she appeared, for a breakfast of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, she wore a woolly, two piece fuchsia suit—and this was the garb that was to be stained by an assassin's Infamy. The world knows now how, when the shots struck in Dallas, she cradled his head and cried out: "Oh no! Jack! Jack!” That was the last public lament she was to utter— though the beautiful cheeks have become slightly swol len from weeping in private. It was well known, too, how she accompanied her W’-m husband every tragic step—to the Dallas hospital, to the jet plane bearing the corpse back to Washington, down the yellow cargo lift to the concrete of Andrews Air Base while the purple lights of the runways seemed to< blink In horror. Everyone knows, too, how—garbed in black—she walked behind the coffin from the White House to St. Matthew’s Cathedral, followed by many of the world’s sat. This was the kind of procession the martyred coin had had, and this was the kind she felt was dae to the nation and the world. And she. visited the bier and the grave again and again sometknes bringing the children—Caroline to kiss the flag ana John-John to give the scarcely compre hending miliary salute of a three-year-old. As if to bring order out of woeful chaos, she found time to attend to many things: Belonged to Nation She consented to her husband’s burial in Arlington National Cemetery rather than Brookline, Mass., as if to emphasize that he belonged to the Nation. She de signed the memorial cards for the mass of requiem; asked that his most loved passages from scripture be recited, that his inaugural speech be quoted. ♦ She suggested that she herself receive the foreign leaders who came from beyond the seas to do homage; and when the new President, Lyndon B. Johnson, as sured Latin American diplomats that the Alliance for Progress would go forward, she too spoke to them, thank i*g them in Spanish for their sympathy. Kennedy. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, her brother-in-law, was at her side during the buriai at Arlington National Cemetery last Monday. Daughter Caroline, whose sixth birthday came two days after her father's burial, offers her mother consolation as she looks anxiously and lovingly at her black-veiled face, while on the steps of St. Matthew's Cathedral following the requiem mass for the late President John F. Kennedy. SJAG ,c MAJESTY. tB ° F MRS KEHMEDY w Jr * M>an< ii -L ■>' - a-.,?* ■ ’ w WSE fii«& i - si %... sWIsHI WHI *- < ■■■■■■■■■■■ , mriin *««»*“** 2' - l ' t - Ux. • Praise came from all over the United States and the world lauding Mrs. Jacqueline Ken nedy's courage and moving dignity following the tragic day of the assassination of her husband. This is the front page of the London Evening Standard, whose tribute noted the "Magic Majesty of Mrs. Kennedy" as she led "kings, queens, princes and prime ministers to the last rites of her martyred husband."— Associated Press Photos. W Sunday jHaf WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 1, 1963 EXCLUSIVELY YOURS The Lyndon Johnsons Will Lend New Flavor to White House Society By BETTY BEALE Star Staff Water Washington is gradually pulling the pieces of its shat tered emotions together. Life In the city and the work of Government in the concen tric circles that flow out from the presidency must go on. But the shock of seeing the young, vigorous, brilliant John Kennedy struck down from the top job In the world to an early grave has left both official and resi dential society numb. Nothing short of being in volved in a war has such a marked effect on Washing ton society as a change in the presidency For the top man in Washington society is always—whoever he is— the President of the United States. «« • • IN ATTEMPTING TO DE SCRIBE the Impact of the Kennedy administration on Washington society, this columnist wrote five days be fore his Inauguration: "Any organisation, any company, any government, takes its cue from the pan on top. Frank- Un Roosevelt, with his Intel lectual interests, social back ground. and Harvard train ing, influenced the local scene to the extent that stimulat ing dinner parties Involving both social types and non soclal liberal eggheads be came extremely chic. "Harry Truman’s influ ence was seen in the rise of his cronies and any friend who had been a friend of Harry’s before. "Dwight D. Elsenhower gave prominence to the busi nessman in contrast to the intellectual. In fact, the egg head wasn’t even chic social ly. “Now John F. Kennedy brings back the intellectual trend, the Harvard training and the social standing so enhanced by the top-drawer background of his wife Jacqueline. And he also brings something new l youth.” And so he did. John and i Jacqueline Kennedy were used to the world of money, i fashion and beauty, and they brought this gay and glam orous society into the White House. Indeed, during the past three years Washing ton. not Hollywood or New York, became the glamour capital of the country. It also became the new center for recognition of Intellectual and cultural achievements. •« • • NOW A NEW FLAVOR will be introduced. The top man in Washington society and his wife —President and Mrs. Lyndon Johnson —will bring a fresh, Western breeziness and friendly informality to the social life at 1600 Penn sylvania avenue. They both have tremen dous outgoing warmth, and easygoing folksiness, but with these qualities, dignity and great intelligence. There is no stiffness among the Johnsons. They want people to have a good time and to feel at home. The President, a man of un flagging dynamism and great gregariousness, has little de sire to seek the quiet com fort of bed after a hard day’s work. He is famous for personally telephoning a friend and saying: "Grab that pretty wife of yours and come over here to dinner and be here by 7 o’clock." Occasionally those friends have had to say they couldn’t come because they had an other dinner engagement. This is something one can say to anybody up to a Vice President, but not to a Pres ident. An invitation from the President of the United States is a command per formance. So from now on the Johnsons’ closest coterie of friends may be subject to call most any night he is not busy with state functions. But by virtue of the fact they are Johnson Intimates, they will also be Inundated by invitations from many quarters in this power-seek ing society. •• • * WHO ARE THESE INTI MATES? They are mostly people who have worked for or with the new President as did Paul Fay, Dave Pow ers, Benjamin Smith and Torbert MacDonald work for or with John Kennedy. The No. 1 group around the Johnsons Includes two Texas Congressmen and their wives the Homer Thomberrys of Austin and the Jack Brookses of Beau mont. Homer Thorntjerry was appointed Federal judge for the western district of Texas by President Kennedy to take effect after this ses sion of Congress adjourns, but friends are now won dering if the new President will not want him to remain in Washington. He was the man pictured by Mr. John- son’s side on his first day as President—that grim rainy day. The group Includes two newsmen and their wives— the William Whites and the Leslie Carpenters. Elizabeth Carpenter is a brilliant, witty and enormously well liked newswoman who quit the news service she and her husband started when Mr. Johnson became Vice Presi dent in order to become his executive assistant Columnist Bill White, then a young AP reporter, gave the only party for Lyndon Johnson and his bride when he came back to Washington with her in 1934. The Horace Busbys and the Walter Jenkins’ are in the inner circle. Walter has been Senator and Vice Presi dent Johnson's trusted ad ministrative assistant. Hor ace Busby, a brilliant man who has been putting out a newsletter called "The Amer ican Businessman, ” is Mr. Johnson's favorite speech writer. Louisiana Congressman and House Democratic Whip Hale Boggs and his wife Lindy are close personal friends, too. In fact, the Johnsons gave a big gay party for Lindy last March that was a key to the kind of parties they like best and will undoubtedly give in the White House. *« • * GUESTS WERE GREETED by music the minute they stepped inside the door, they had dinner at small tables, there were amusing after dinner speeches, dancing to an orchestra with both John sons taking part in every thing, and never a dull mo ment. The music, the small ta bles, the dancing—are much the same pattern Jacqueline Kennedy followed in her non-official entertaining, and sometimes official enter taining in the White House. But with the Texas couple it will be more Informal. Also in the inner are Wash ington Lawyer and Mrs. Leonard Marks, former Texas Congressman Eugene Worley, now chief judge of the United States Court of Cus toms and Patent Appeals, and Mrs. Worley, and NBC Commentator Nancy Dicker- DIPLOMATICALLY SPEAKING Which Envoys Will Move In the New Inner Circles? By PAT SALTONSTALL Star Staff Writer Which foreign ambassador will move in the innermost court circles of the new John son administration is a major question to emerge from the past historic week. Great Britain’s Sir David Ormsby Gore held not only a close official position with the late President Kennedy’s administration. He and Lady Ormsby Gore were personal friends of both Kennedys. They were frequent guests at White House parties, includ ing the small, unpublicized private ones, such as the sur prise cruise party which Mrs. Kennedy gave for her husband on his last birth day. They often were photo graphed aboard the Presi dential yacht "Honey Fitz,” and the elegant young British couple personify the young, talented, often intellectual, ■ r Sir David Ormsby Gore, British Ambassador, with the late President Kennedy—a personal friend as well as an official ally.—AP Photo. Paris Report, F-6 Readers' Clearing House, F-10 son and her husband Wyatt. The late publisher Philip Graham was another close friend and his widow Kay has been at the Johnsons several times since his death. •• • • SENATOR RICHARD. RUSSELL, Democrat of Georgia, is the closest man in the Senate to the new Presi dent. The spokesman for the South is not a partygoer, but he frequently dines with the Johnsons alone. Those are the most inti mate friends of the new Chief Executive and First Lady, but they have a lot more very close ones. Between groups 1 and 2 should be mentioned the Bill Moyers and the Tyler Abells. Bill Moyer, who used to work for Mr. Johnson, has been Deputy Director of the Peace Corps during the Kennedy administration, but is de scribed as an aide to the new President. Bess Clements Abell has been social secre tary to Mrs. Johnson for the past three years Into Group No. 2 would have to go former Texas Congressman Frank Ikard and his wife—he is now head of the American Petroleum Institute; the Dale Millers —he represents the Dallas Chamber of Commerce in Washington; Lawyer James H. Rowe and his wife—she is chairman of the National Capital Planning Commis sion: famed lawyer of Frank lin Roosevelt days—Tommy (the Cork) Corcoran; Mr. Mrs. Abe Portas. Justice and Mrs. Tom Clark, Justice and Mrs Arthur Goldberg, and so forth. •• • * THE WHEEL HAS TURNED. Those who were IN the last three years—and some worked hard to get IN—are now no longer close to the center of power. A new group has taken their place. Perle Mesta, who didn’t set her foot in the White House for three years, probably will do so now. But while the IN people with the Kennedys may be OUT where the power is con cerned. the social friends of Jacqueline Kennedy will con tinue to be IN socially be cause she will become the most desirable non-official guest anywhere—the woman with the most prestige, other dynamic type of diplomat which foreign governments have been sending here in increasing numbers since the birth of the New Frontier. White House guests during the late President’s 35 months in office also included Peru’s Ambassador Berckemeyer and his American-born wife. The out-going vice dean of the diplomatic corps and his wife, though older than the aver age New Frontiersman, were highly respected by both the late President and Mrs. Ken nedy. French-speaking Mrs. Ken nedy also had French Am bassador and Mrs. Alphand as frequent guests. A Salute to the Dean One ambassador who holds a special position in relation to any administration is the dean of the corps. When this man’s tenure spans the than Mrs Johnson, of any in the country. Such prestige was Mrs. Woodrow Wilson's but she rarely went out, and similar prestige has been Mrs Nicho las Longworth’s through the years. But Mrs. Kennedy will be the most sought-after of all Because, in addition to being the widow of a Presi dent and a woman of social background, she has the youth and beauty that alone add glamour to any occasion. In a city where the guests are rated like stocks blue chip, growth, speculative, and so forth her presence will insure the social success of any party. On the official scene, the play goes on. and the plot is the same, but the cast of characters is changed and the atmosphere and the color is shifted—from north to south, from Boston to Austin, from a city man to a ranch man. from Harvard accents to a Southern drawl. The French chef may stay on. Although the White House once stated that he was paid out of Mr. Ken nedy's pocket, this point is not entirely clear now. The Johnson’s excellent Negro cook. Zephyr, will do the cooking for the second floor dining room Zephyr, who has been with the John sons for years, cooks the best brownies in the world and superb Mexican dishes such as chile con queso and guacamoli. She is accustomed to Mr. Johnson’s Irregular eating hours and prefers cooking for him to anybody. The White House has lost the most glamorous and youngest couple to ever oc cupy the top positions, but it will not lack color, vigor,—or even youth, what with the presence of 19-year-old Lyn da and 16-year-old Lucy. Indeed, Washington can look forward to the first White House wedding of a President's daughter since Eleanor Wilson, daughter of Woodrow Wilson, became the bride of Secretary of the Treasury William McAdoo on May 7, 1914. For Lynda Johnson is engaged to 22- year-old Ensign Bernie Ro senbach and although her parents want her to wait un til she is through college to get married, Lynda is in fa vor of becoming a bride within a year. administrations of five Amer ican Presidents, his position becomes valuable and unique. Nicaragua's Ambassador Sevilla Sacasa displays a * treasured gift from the Ken nedy's, sent just a month ago to congratulate him on 20 years as Ambassador to the United States. The vermeil framed en graving of the White House, as It appeared in the late 1800 s, bore this hand-written inscription in a letter framed beneath it written in her own handwriting by Mrs. Kennedy, and countersigned by the late President: “With all our congratula tions on the completion of your 20th year In Washing ton. May you be Dean for 20 more. Jacqueline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy.” In a house bulging with gifts and signed photo graphs, from the Roosevelts to the Johnsons. It will be particularly cherished by the usually ebullient, now sad dened dean. Chatelaines in Limelight The two diplomatic host esses, Lady Ormsby Gore and Mrs. Alphand, faced similar ordeals recently in being shadowed by national magazine reporters and pho tographers. At the last big diplomatic event before President Ken nedy's assassination, both described their experiences. This was at the November 19 dinner given by Secretary of State and Mrs. Rusk for one-half the chiefs of mis sion to the White House (the second was to have been held Wednesday). Reluctant when first asked to be the subject of an arti cle (still unpublished) bru nette Lady Ormsby Gore said they tried gentle persuasion, such as reminding her that the wife of United States Ambassador to Great Britain William Bruce had consented to such an article. Like Lady Ormsby Gore, Mrs. Alphand was trailed ev erywhere for six weeks or so. The cover story on her attri buted to her an unfailing sense of the seat and source of power. If true, she should be a good bellweather to watch in relation to the new administration. F