Strong Women by Jacqueline Lee Bouvier

In the face of love and hate, being complimented and being insulted, she chose silence and life. Jacqueline Bouvier - Jacqueline Kennedy - Jacqueline Onassis, the three names illustrate the three stages in her life: Jacqueline Bouvier was a protected young child and an ambitious Journalist; Jacqueline Kennedy, the glamorous First Lady and revered widow; Jacqueline Onassis, the Beat icon and billionaire’s wife. Twenty years after Dallas, she remains the most famous and mysterious woman in the world.

The father she admired in childhood, Bouvier Jack, was a handsome man nicknamed "Black Jack". He was a debt-ridden banker and runner. Mother Janet was once the most beautiful woman in New York society. For Jacqueline, childhood was spent carefree in the company of attentive nannies, black drivers, French housekeepers, ponies and dogs. She is bold and naughty, like a little lion. When he was four years old, he evaded the nanny in Central Park and ran to the police to report: "My nanny is lost." In 1942, "Black Jack" and Janet divorced, when Jacqueline was thirteen years old. This is an emotional tragedy. Her mother married the banker Hugh Auchincloss. Since then, Jacqueline and her mother left New York and lived near Washington. There, she spent the best time of her life, and she became a liberal arts student at Visage College, the most elegant university in the United States. When he was eighteen years old, he took the "Queen Mary" cruise ship to Europe for vacation. She met the Queen at Buckingham Palace. After arriving in Paris, she fell in love at first sight with France, the hometown of her ancestors. Jacqueline, who spoke French fluently, traveled throughout France and found Bouvier's relatives. She then enrolled at the University of Paris to study French and French history. In one of her notebooks, she wrote a sentence with three emphasis points: "Ambition-never be a housewife."

After the reporter returned to Washington, Jacqueline decided to live her life. Live independently. Can a pampered girl find a job in journalism?

Accepting this position determines her entire future. She quickly learned photography and was immediately at work. She randomly selects five or six people on the road every day, asks each of them a different question, takes pictures of them, and then develops and prints them to write her column. Her sense of humor amused all of Washington. She asked the truck drivers what they thought of Paris haute couture; she asked the housewives which president they would have wanted to be the first lady of. She will always remember the question one of them asked: "Mrs. Lincoln. I will prevent someone from assassinating him. He is too tired that day and I will not let him go to the theater."

The fateful day arrived. The president summoned her: "Go to the State Capitol to see John F. Kennedy. This is a promising young congressman. He has just defeated Henry Lodge. But don't think too much. He is too old for you." And anyway, he doesn't want to get married yet..." The beautiful female reporter and the outstanding congressman didn't fall in love at first sight, but their eyes met and they actually established a great love in one month. On June 23, 1953, the Times-Herald ran the following headline on its front page: "Our Photo Girl and the Romance of John F. Kennedy." The first lady of the United States, Jacqueline, was recognized and accepted by the Kennedy family, but she was not willing to just act as a decoration. She wanted to be an important and necessary collaborator, a like-minded person with them. The couple set out to conquer America. They were striking, ambitious, yet devoutly Catholic. They need to fight several times more than others to be admirable and win. Jacqueline was a political weapon. She participated in all political activities. She wrote nearly 20,000 letters and gave speeches in French, Spanish and Italian before newly naturalized voters. Daughter Caroline was born; soon after, on November 9, 1960, two weeks after the first Catholic president of the United States was elected, son John was also born. She was also a diplomatic weapon in all the official visits that accompanied her husband. She drove Khrushchev, Nehru and de Gaulle crazy. They called her "the very sweet Mrs. Kennedy."

The White House needs four years to be refreshed. On the first day after she got the keys to one hundred and fifty rooms in the White House, Jacqueline decided to make the White House the most beautiful house in the United States, equivalent to an American history museum. She formed a committee that raised millions of dollars to purchase period furniture and paintings across the country. A breath of fresh air blew into the White House, ending the house's rut. Jacqueline's fame grew so great that after the radio announcer finished forecasting the weather, he always added: "Good night, Mrs. Kennedy, wherever you are now."

History is still here continue. Friday in Dallas, motorcades, gunshots. ...Then Jacqueline held her husband's battered head on her knees, her flesh-red clothes splattered with blood. It was America's most shocking moment since Pearl Harbor. At the funeral, Jacqueline gained admiration. The state funeral she requested and organized completely moved the United States and the world to tears. Even the Soviet government broadcast the funeral on television. Where the funeral procession passed, millions of Americans wept. Who can forget the image of this woman in mourning: her black veil trembling in the cold wind, her face gloomy, her eyes dull, exactly like a queen in grief, followed closely by a group of unusual kings and queens from hundreds of countries, President and Ministers.

Admiration outweighed sympathy, where did this woman get such perseverance and composure?

After that, Jacqueline entered the legendary stage. In the week after that tragic Friday, she received a hundred thousand letters. People praised her courage, but she asked herself in surprise: "How on earth do they want me to survive?" The lonely years and nightmare nights of the billionaire's wife began. To America, she is a role model and an icon. It's too much, and Jacqueline doesn't want to be a living zombie. She started traveling to Cambodia, Spain... Everywhere she went, people welcomed her like a head of state. The JFK myth hung over her, but she did not want to become an American widow. So, just five years after Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated five years after his brother's death, she unexpectedly announced to the world that she would marry Greece's most powerful billionaire, thus walking out of the Kennedy family home. Her legend was shattered. For the United States, this is a betrayal. She ruined her image, and just for a little money. She is said to have signed an incredible contract that guaranteed her millions of dollars a year during her marriage, and a much larger sum in the event of a divorce. She was once adored, but now she is hated and reviled. Mrs. Onassis faced the storm of public opinion with indifference. She declared: "Let this day be the happiest day of my life." Her relatives and friends explained that she was looking for a kind of warmth, a kind of support. She wanted to forget America, forget the murderers... but people thought that was just an excuse. A strange Jacqueline became the subject of public discussion: people said she was greedy, stingy, spendthrift, and selfish. In order to find "Jacqueline's anecdotes", people asked her past secretaries, maids, deliverymen, paper workers, and furniture workers... People accused her of unreasonably abandoning her friends, saying that she was willful, irritable, arrogant and mysterious. Test. What is being denigrated now is exactly what was worshiped in the past. Scandal magazine also published nude photos of her taken with a telephoto lens on Scobevos Island. People said: "She found a grandpa for her children."

She did not protest, her silence and her unchanging smile were always her best defense. With Kennedy, politics was her opponent; with Onassis, business trumped everything. Onassis was like a whirlwind. He traveled around the world to take care of his "kingdom", and the couple rarely stayed together. Their interests are also very different: Onassis is a nightlife person, so he blames Jacqueline for going to bed early; Onassis has a rich family, but he is afraid that Jacqueline will spend too much. Onassis soon accused Jacqueline of being a cold, shallow intellectual. Jacqueline loved to read Machiavelli, Cervantes and Montaigne's Euphorbia, while Onassis would while away the evenings drinking and listening to Greek music. This is by no means a real marriage, at best it is a marriage. Oddly enough, it was Onassis who eventually grew tired of it, and his death prevented divorce after seven years of marriage.

She will always remain a mystery. Whether she wanted to or not, she became part of American folk mythology. To Americans, Jacqueline was a national celebrity, a superstar, a heroine of plays and film novels: a woman who was ashamed but not afraid of public opinion, a free woman. She is rich in the world, but she doesn't want to be idle. For five years, she worked as an independent publisher for a publishing company in the United States, earning the same salary as her colleagues, starting at two hundred dollars a week. She has neither a car nor a driver. She walks or takes a taxi to work, has lunch at the office or a fast food restaurant, and returns home around 6 p.m. She rarely goes out, only to attend ballets, concerts or operas. Go to bed at 9pm every Wednesday and read until late into the night. She may get married for the third time, or she may be widowed for a long time, but she does not want people to judge her future life. What she believes in and practices is: "I was not born to dominate others or endure humiliation. My life is only about me. own business.

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