FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY, JACQUELINE KENNEDY WAS GIVEN SPECIAL PERMISSION, BY PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON, TO LIVE AT THE WHITE HOUSE UNTIL SHE WAS PREPARED, AT HER OWN SPEED, TO DEPART FOREVER. AND THIS SHE DID....ON DECEMBER 8, 1963.
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JACQUELINE BOUVIER KENNEDY - AT WORK AT HER DESK
DURING THIS TIME OF BEREAVEMENT, THE FORMER FIRST LADY TOOK THIS TIME, (NOVEMBER 22, 1963 TO DECEMBER 8, 1963), TO PERSONALLY AUTHOR SOMETHING TO VERY FEW PEOPLE. THESE FEW WERE TO WHITE HOUSE CAREER SERVANTS THAT HAD SERVED THE FIRST FAMILY SO TIRELESSLY...............AND PERSONALLY FOR 1000 DAYS.
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COMPLETE PRESENTATION OF J.F.K. ASSASSINATION RELATED PERSONAL NOTE FROM FIRST LADY- JACQUELINE KENNEDY TO WHITE HOUSE MATRE DE' CHARLES FICKLIN 1963
ONE OF THESE SPECIAL PEOPLE, THAT HAD PLEASED THE PRESIDENT AND MRS. KENNEDY SO WAS, WHITE HOUSE MATRE DE' CHARLES FICKLIN. HER FEELINGS FOR HIM ARE SO CLEARLY REVEALED IN THE FORMER FIRST LADY'S TOUCHING WORDS....
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"FOR DEAR CHARLES...YOU MADE OUR BRIEF YEARS HERE ALL THE PRIDE THEY WERE....AND YOU SERVED THE PRESIDENT SO WELL....HOW WE WILL MISS YOU......JACQUELINE KENNEDY."
CHARLES FICKLIN-WHITE HOUSE MATRE DE' - IN THE WHITE HOUSE EAST ROOM IN 1963
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MISSY LEHAND, FDR'S PRIVATE SECRETARY, BEGINNING ABOUT 1920, WAS FOR YEARS, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S CLOSEST CONFIDANT. BUT SHE WAS FAR MORE THAN PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S SECRETARY. SHE WAS FDR'S BOON COMPANION, AND YES, A SORT OF SISTER/MOTHER SUBSTITUTE. OFTEN MISSY WOULD EAT ALONE WITH THE PRESIDENT RIGHT IN THE OVAL OFFICE OR HIS OTHER WHITE HOUSE OFFICE. THEY SEEMED SO SEAMLESS.
FDR ABOUT TO BEGIN A FIRESIDE CHAT
AND MISSY LEHAND WOULD PROVIDE THE, WITHOUT HESITATION, EGO BOOSTING THAT MOST PEOPLE FIND FULFILLING. AND MISSY OFFERED BLANKET APPROVAL OF FDR. HE SOMETIMES NEEDED JUST THAT. THE FIRST LADY, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT OFTEN DID NOT PROVIDE THAT. BESIDES THAT, THE FIRST LADY WAS OFTEN IN TRAVEL HERSELF AND LEFT THE PRESIDENT ALONE. THE FIRST LADY WAS ON HER ON VENTURE INTO HISTORY. SHE WAS TO BECOME, PERHAPS, THE GREATEST AMERICAN WOMAN OF THE ENTIRE 20TH CENTURY. AT THE TIME, FEW PEOPLE THOUGHT SUCH A THING WAS GOING TO BE. BUT GREATNESS HAPPENED.
F.D.R. AND MISSY LEHAND AT WORK-OVAL OFFICE
BUT BACK TO MISSY AND FDR. IF THE PRESIDENT TRAVELED TO HYDE PARK MISSY WAS ALONG. AND ALWAYS SHE WAS IN TRAVEL WHENEVER HE HEADED TO THE LITTLE WHITE HOUSE, AS HE CALLED IT, IN WARM SPRINGS, GEORGIA. THESE TRAVELS WERE OFTEN AND ALWAYS VIA THE TRAIN, DEPARTING FROM UNION STATION IN WAHINGTON, D.C. IN FACT, MISSY LEHAND BUILT HER ENITRE LIFE AROUND THE PRESIDENT. AND ALTHOUGH A HANDSOME WOMAN IN HER OWN RIGHT SHE NEVER MARRIED. HAVING SAID THIS, THERE WERE FEW ON THE WHITE HOUSE STAFF THAT EVER SUSPECTED AN AFFAIR WAS GOING ON AT ANY TIME. BUT LOVE? YES, F.D.R. AND MISSY DID LOVE EACH OTHER. NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. IS THERE?
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When a young Harry S. Truman was being raised by his Confederate sympathizing Mother, she raised her son to follow certain rules - Rule #1...All men must learn to wash their own socks and underwear.....even as The President of the United States of America? Yes, that too!
The White House staff was aghast when they observed the President eschewing all offers of Presidential assistance who suggested that he throw his socks and underwear in a pile...and let the competent Executive Office staff take care of this chore. President Harry Truman refused and was sometimes seen, in The White House, washing his underwear and his socks in the sink of his bathroom, just off the side of the Presidential bedroom suite.
It was hard for the bewildered staff not to be impressed!
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