A Place in History: Inside Jacqueline Kennedy's Unique Bond With Son John F. Kennedy Jr.
Jackie did not, however, mind Bobby stepping in, believing wholeheartedly that he was"going to make sure John turns out as he should."In fact, in one of her lowest moments, when she considered ending her life, she asked RFK and Ethel to adopt John and Caroline, so convinced was she that they would be better off being raised by them.
Bobby won in a landslide and Jackie—who didn't vote in the 1964 election, and refused her invitation to President One of her and the kids' favorite pastimes was gazing out at the unbelievable view from the windows of their apartment through a high-powered telescope.Plimpton told Andersen,"John shared his mother's love of adventure and her tremendous curiosity.
Pressing on, however, she regularly filled the apartment with fellow parents and their children for playdates, sometimes even inviting people they had just met in the park to come over. Through it all, even when she started dating again, Bobby Kennedy remained her rock—and, according to multiple accounts, her lover. Even the kids knew that their mother always seemed happiest around Uncle Bobby.
Yet she was simultaneously terrified for their safety, knowing firsthand what sort of people could be lurking just about anywhere. "Jack always said he was going to give John a real plane when he grew up," Jackie told their friend Chuck Spalding, per Andersen."Well, it's a little early, but not how has it, a real airplane."
Then Bobby decided to seek the Democratic nomination for president in 1968. Jackie thought the idea too dangerous, because look at what happened to his brother, but she remained one of his magic weapons on the campaign trail. Jackie didn't go to bed until after 3 a.m. in New York, and was asleep for about a half hour until her brother-in-law Stas Radziwill called and asked her how Bobby was doing."But, Jackie," he replied,"he's been shot. It happened just a few minutes ago."This time Jackie was home to break the news to her children that something terrible had happened, and she told John and Caroline that Bobby had been shot by a very bad man before she caught the next flight out to L.A.
Onassis didn't care how any Kennedys felt about him, other than Caroline and John. He lavished them with toys, spent hours playing games and took them for ice cream. Ari also listened obligingly when John would go on about his father and play recordings of his speeches.In the fall of 1968 she enrolled John at the Collegiate School rather than have him repeat the first grade at St. David's.
"My mother was very strict with me," he later remembered."Caroline could do just about anything, but if I stepped out of line, I got a swat." In 1976, John went off to boarding school at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass., and when he turned 16 that November, his days with an ever-present Secret Service detail were over."Free at last!" he exclaimed when he arrived on campus.
It was Jackie's idea to send John to Outward Bound in Maine, where at the end of the program he had to live on an island braving the elements alone for three days. He was a natural. Jackie threw a big combined bash for Caroline's 21st birthday and John's 18th in 1978 at Le Club in Manhattan and the younger set partied until the wee hours. Headlines were made when John's close pal Billy Noonan started tangling with the paparazzi who were waiting for them to come out at 4 a.m. and, while trying to untangle his friend, John was knocked to the ground. Noonan later wrote Jackie a letter of apology for causing a spectacle.
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