Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sooner had Jackie arrived back at Washington with her husband's body than she served notice that she wanted to be consulted on all details of his services and burial. Well aware that her family and friends might otherwise spare her painful decisions, she insisted that she meant to see to it "that people will remember all the best things about...
...White House with a link to the past," she once recalled. "It gave me great comfort . . . When you see the great bed, it looks like a cathedral . . . I felt a kind of peace in that room . . . I could really feel his strength." Now, she firmly told the family, her husband's funeral must be "as Lincolnesque as possible...
...Belongs to the Country." It was, in the last analysis, Jackie's decision that her husband be buried in Arlington National Cemetery. There was some family feeling that the President should be with his infant son Patrick in the family plot at Brookline, Mass. Cardinal Cushing advised against this: the plot, he said, was much too small to accommodate all the thousands who would surely want to visit it as a shrine. Jackie herself thought that Brookline would be too out of the way. Said she: "He really belongs to the country as a whole...
Jackie made other requests, all meant to symbolize things that her husband had stood for. She asked that a member of the Army's Special Forces, wearing the green beret distinctive of those guerrilla warfare specialists, be included among the honor guard. Because of Jack's love of the Navy, she requested that the Navy hymn be played as the casket was carried up the Capitol steps. She invited the Navy Choir and Tenor Luigi Vena, who had sung at her wedding, to sing at the cathedral. Recalling that Jack had recently marveled at an exhibition by Britain...
...Senator Teddy Kennedy fell the job of flying to Hyannis Port, comforting his mother and breaking the news to his invalid father. Rose Kennedy gamely controlled her grief, but did not immediately tell her husband of the assassination. On Friday night he was coaxed into watching a long movie at home, rather than television. Although he cannot talk or write, his restlessness indicated that he sensed the others' sadness. But he retired as usual...