Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy advised her sister-in-law, Joan, to stop being a doormat for her philandering hubby, Ted Kennedy - and if he didn’t shape up, to move out, according to letters up for auction tomorrow in Connecticut.
“This is the 20th century - not the 19th - where the little woman stayed home on a pedestal with the kids and her rosary,” Jackie wrote in an undated four-page note to the senator’s wife and miserable mother of three. “Your life matters - as much as him - you love him - but you can’t destroy yourself.”
The hand-written sisterly screed was retrieved from the trash at Joan’s Hyannisport home, reports Bill Panagopulos of Alexander Autographs of Stamford. A housemaid packed it away in a storage facility on Cape Cod, but the bill was never paid.
(snip)
The first letter, penned on white-lined notebook paper in Jackie’s distinctive hand, advises Joan not stand in the shadows while Ted cheats on her with girls with cutesy nicknames.
“Men under pressure have to let off steam sometimes - that’s why even the Catholic Church has carnival & Mardi Gras,” she wrote. “But having your own little black phone . . . so that you can talk to Mootsie or Pootsie every night - right in the house with his wife & children - and bringing them there when you’re away. What kind of woman, but a sap or a slave, can stand that & still be a loving wife & care about him & work like a dog for him campaigning? It is so old-fashioned - probably got it from his father.”
more…
http://thetrack.bostonherald.com/moreTrack/view.bg?articleid=184501
Printer-friendly format
Email this thread to a friend
Bookmark this thread
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
