Word: letitia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loves French cooking. But the story that the First Lady had been guilty of the unpardonable impropriety of trying to lure him away from the ambassador was as shocking as serving a sweet white wine with pink filet mignon. From London the cables buzzed with a story that Letitia Baldrige, Jackie's social secretary, had telephoned Bui one midnight last week and, in liquid French, offered him a substantial raise in pay to come to Washington and cook for the President. After 24 hours of thinking it over, said Bui, he had declined the offer...
...Jackie's first moves was the appointment of Letitia Baldrige, 33, to be her social secretary. Lively and chic, "Tish" Baldrige knows her way around Washington and a few foreign parts as well. The daughter of a onetime Republican Congressman, Nebraska's Malcolm Baldrige, she went to Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn. and to Vassar, served as social secretary to Mrs. David K.E. Bruce (when Bruce was ambassador in Paris) and Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce in Rome (Roman Candle, Tish's memoirs of her days in Italy, was published in 1956). Jackie and Tish...