Spouses Quotes
A highly respected intellectual, Schlesinger, had joined the John Kennedy Presidential Campaign. The announcement produced a slew of news stories. A Boston Globe reporter called Schlesinger’s wife, a respected intellectual figure in her own right, and asked if she was also supporting Kennedy in the Democratic Primary. She told him that she was supporting Stevenson, not Kennedy and a story with that information appeared the next day. This was embarrassing for the JFK campaign and particularly for Robert F. Kennedy, JFK’s younger brother who was the campaign director. He read the Boston Globe article, made a copy and wrote this famous quotation in the margin and sent it to Schlesinger. Historically it was unusual for the wives of public figures to hold public views different from their husbands. This was the main reason the story was news for the Boston Globe. But there were always women who maintained an independence of thought and political views, though in 1960, they were far fewer than today when this has almost become typical. However, Robert Kennedy, like Schlesinger and JFK himself had married very strong, accomplished women and they were not threatened by their wife’s independence. Hence the humorous questions Kennedy wrote.
McNickle claimed to have quoted her in an article and she did not say it and she was angry that he had put words in her mouth. Most political spouses would just suffer in silence, and if they did respond would do so in very polite and in the case of women “ladylike: terms. Ms. Kerry however was not only a very successful business woman but also was one of the richest women in America who had been in the tussles of male battles before
A ceremony in Richmond, Virginia had to wait a few minutes while the First Lady and her secretary were finishing the copy for Mrs. Roosevelt’s daily column in the Presidential car. She had a deadline, and on several occasions major affairs of state were delayed a few minutes until she could finish writing and file her copy.
This was a private gathering of key members of the Conservative party.
He was married to Maria Shriver, daughter of Sergeant Shriver and a member of the prominent Democratic Kennedy family. He was a very bipartisan politician distressing many extremists in his own party.
In the 1920 Republican primary in Indiana things were looking poorly for Warren G. Harding and his campaign manager called to advise Harding to drop out of the race. Harding was about to agree when Mrs. Harding grabbed the phone.
He was then a Congressman. Lady Bird Johnson did work it out.
Her husband had previously been governor and he had been known as “Pa.”
