SENATOR ]. F. KENNEDY’S GREATEST ASSET

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29101, 13 January 1960, Page 2

SENATOR ]. F. KENNEDY’S GREATEST ASSET

IBy SUSAN VAUGHAN]

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 42-year-old Senator of the New England State of Massachusetts, is convinced that he can be elected next President of the United States of America. As an official contender for the Democratic Presidential nomination, he is endowed with many assets. He is a handsome sixfooter, a war hero, a sparkling orator. He has brains, charm, and a multi-millionaire former ambassador father. But many of his supporters believe he has one asset which outweighs all the others—a glamorous and vivacious wife who will be worth several hundred thousand votes in her own right. The woman who could succeed Mamie Eisenhower as First Lady of America is the perfect match for her well-endowed husband. A woman with brains, beauty and breeding, plus an exciting personality. News Photographer Before her marriage she was Jacqueline Bouvier, Frenchextracted, from a good family and educated in private schools in Europe. She had the looks of a cover girl model but worked behind a camera instead—as an inquiring photographer on the Washington “Time-Herald.”

Gay, energetic and ambitious, Jackie had wanted to be a correspondent. But the only vacancy was for a photographer who would go around firing questions at her subjects. She took the job. For several years she chased Washington personalities for picture-stories. Then, in 1951, She met a former war correspondent who was rated as the most eligible bachelor in Washington. John “Jack” Kennedy. “No Time For Girls” Kennedy was then busy embarking on a political career and had no time for girls. But cameraarmed Jackie kept on his trail and finally snapped up the No. 1 bachelor in 1953. They were engaged for three months and then married at a smart Rhode Island wedding attended by the cream of the social register. Since then Jackie has concentrated on her husband's career, revelling in her new role as a top hostess, and shielding the Senator from everyday cares unrelated to his political work. If charm and good looks were deciding factors, “Jack and Jhckie” would be certain of moving into the White House at the end of the year.