The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. Would you notify the telephone operators and everyone else that I’m to be known simply as Mrs. Kennedy and not as First Lady.
JACKIE KENNEDY
I’ll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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