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...learned. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said that last December, London friends of the Kennedys had heard that Bui planned to come to the U.S. and had put out feelers on Jackie's behalf. But when the chef said he had no travel plans, explained Salinger, the negotiations ended. "Tish" Baldrige denied that she had phoned London, said she had only sent Bui a letter "to let him know what was cooking," confirming the fact that his services were no longer sought. Then, to reassure the present White House kitchen crew, Associate Press Secretary Andrew Hatcher formally announced...
...Canvases of contemporary U.S. painters will be hung on the White House walls, says Tish, "even if it means putting paintings in front of paintings." ¶ An effort will be made to entertain informally, with "very much of a cross section of dinner lists," drawn from many walks of life...
...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...
...first press conference last week, Tish Baldrige described a few plans of the new First Lady to make the big house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue a home: ¶ One of the rooms will become-for the first time since 1901-a nursery. ¶ Jackie plans to scatter some of her own eighteenth century French antiques and porcelains around the White House to give the family quarters a more familiar look...
...Jackie will probably go right on stirring talk with her high-fashion gowns and bouffant hairdos, but the emphasis will become more American than French. Says Tish: "I don't think she feels she can play favorites among designers...