And it is.
Posted on 02/23/2007 8:21:10 AM PST by Aquinasfan
Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy advised her sister-in-law, Joan, to stop being a doormat for her philandering hubby, Ted Kennedy - and if he didn’t shape up, to move out, according to letters up for auction tomorrow in Connecticut.
“This is the 20th century - not the 19th - where the little woman stayed home on a pedestal with the kids and her rosary,” Jackie wrote in an undated four-page note to the senator’s wife and miserable mother of three. “Your life matters - as much as him - you love him - but you can’t destroy yourself.”
The hand-written sisterly screed was retrieved from the trash at Joan’s Hyannisport home, reports Bill Panagopulos of Alexander Autographs of Stamford. A housemaid packed it away in a storage facility on Cape Cod, but the bill was never paid.
“Then some guy went and bought the contents of seven storage lockers at auction - and like the guy who stumbled upon Paris Hilton’s stuff and sold it for $10 million - he found the letter from Jackie amongst other things,” he said. “We should all be so lucky.”
Panagopulos said the provenance of the letters is “solid,” and that documentation is available for would-be bidders.
The first letter, penned on white-lined notebook paper in Jackie’s distinctive hand, advises Joan not stand in the shadows while Ted cheats on her with girls with cutesy nicknames.
“Men under pressure have to let off steam sometimes - that’s why even the Catholic Church has carnival & Mardi Gras,” she wrote. “But having your own little black phone . . . so that you can talk to Mootsie or Pootsie every night - right in the house with his wife & children - and bringing them there when you’re away. What kind of woman, but a sap or a slave, can stand that & still be a loving wife & care about him & work like a dog for him campaigning? It is so old-fashioned - probably got it from his father.”
Can you just feel the disdain????
“Forbidden fruit is what is exciting,” wrote Jackie, whose own hubby was a notorious womanizer. “It takes much more of a real man to have a deep relationship with the woman he lives with. The routine of married life can become boring . . . if you married Mootsie & she had a few miscarriages (Joan had three) & had to go to the movies at the Cape and on the Marlin with the whole family every day - you’d be sneaking off from her too, after a while.”
Ooooh, ouch! The presidential widow, who made her own life outside the family circle, also took aim at the clannish Kennedys for Joan’s unhappiness.
“This community living has to stop. The family that really counts is his own . . . He can go to the graduations of all of Ethel’s children & teach John to sail the Victura - but, if he botches up his own family . . .that will be a pretty sad record.”
I always liked Jackie. Now I know why..........
On July 19, 1969 at 10:15AM, Ted Kennedy's phone rings...
Ted: Hello?
Police: Senator, this is Chief Dominick Arena, and I am not far from where we think we have found a vehicle you was seen driving last night with a female passenger by the name of Mary Jo Kopechne.
Ted: I see...
Police: She hasn't been seen since getting into the car with you last night at 11:15 PM.
Ted: I think I remember offering to drive her back to her room last night.
Police: What time did you last see her?
Ted: I think it was right before I flipped my mother's car into Poucha pond.
Police: Excuse me?
Ted: The Oldsmobile, I recall leaving it at the bottom of a pond.
Police: Do you know where we can find Mary Jo, Senator?
Ted: Not off hand, but it wouldn't surprise me if she is found floating inside my mother's car at the bottom of that pond.
Police: Uh Senator, why didn't you contact police or summon for help?
Ted: You know, I was...ahhhh, a jumble of emotions and in shock, and plus I had a lot of matters to deal with this morning, and it just slipped my mind. I, ahhhhh, you know, was not thinking very clearly at the time. After I had squeezed myself out of the window I rested for about 20 minutes before walking back to the party to contact my cousin, Joe Gargan, who happens to also be my lawyer.
Police: Well I just don't know what to think here...
Ted: Everything will work out fine, Chief. I can plead guilty to leaving the scene of a accident, and Joe will make sure there will be no autopsy performed on Mary Jo...there will be little for you to pursue here. I am glad you contacted me this mourning, Chief.
Police: Were you drinking last night?
Ted: No, I had not been drinking and certainty was not driving under the influence. Let me add one more thing here -- I will take offense to any suggestion that I may have been driving drunk (hic).
Police: Senator, I will need you to present a valid drivers license as part of a investigation. Will this be a problem?
Ted: Well...ahhhhh, you know my license I think is expired, Chief.
Police: I see...
Ted: I hate to cut this conversation short, Chief, but some people have just arrived and I need to get off the phone now. Let me stress clearly that you will have my full cooperation in what I am certain will become the center of a right-wing smear job upon my integrity. Click and dial tone.
A Kennedy womanizing. Who woulda thunk dat? /sarcasm
Well Ted also botched up the Kopecknick (sp?) family it is safe to say.
Mine too.
And it is.
And they say she could cuss like a trooper!
But he's qualified to run everyone else's life.
I don't think she would use such paper and who was she to give advice about leaving a cheating usband?
She wasn't Mother Theresa, and she wasn't Little Orphan Annie. She certainly wasn't the lonely, longsuffering wife the MSM portrayed her to be. I'm sure she had her words with the others in the Kennedy Klan and spoke her mind. But family affairs are best dis-cussed in private, not the media, unlike Britney and Bradjolina, et al.........
I read in a book by a former Kennedy aide that Teddy was prone to contracting social diseases (VD). This wouldn't make for a perfect marriage.
Yeah, except what did she do about her OWN philandering husband?!!!
Question..........why did she stay with Jack?
Jackie's one to talk.
I would love to know if this letter was written before all of JFK's documented philandering in the White House or after.
I wanna buy it and send it to Hillary.
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