Jack

Jack was six feet tall, lean, and had a respectable face and a built physique. (3).  It has been said many times, “every woman who met Jack either wanted to marry him or mother him (3)”. Jackie was no exception.   She knew from the instant they first met he would have a profound and maybe disturbing effect on her life (5).  After meeting they both went their separate ways, but never truly forgot each other.  She went on to date John G. Husted Jr., a New York Stockbroker (5).  However, Jackie did not want to give up her independence nor her lingering thoughts of  John F. Kennedy, a Massachusetts congressman (5).  After not seeing each other for six months, Jack still had not forgotten Jackie (5). Jack and Jackie were not the only ones who knew their relationship was serious from the start, it seemed as if everyone realized it (5).  

Jackie and Jack had many similarities.  They both loved books, were writers, and had lived abroad (5).  Above all they both had a desire to live in Europe, to work in the U.S. Embassy in London, to travel the continent, and to write as journalist (5).  Jackie became Jack’s political partner when he ran for the U.S. Senate in the summer of 1952 (5).  A month afterwards she began translating ten French books on South East Asian politics for his first major speech in the Senate (5).     

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