NEW YORK - President John f. Kennedy despised openly the notion of Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson him succeeding to the Office, according to a book of interviews published recently with his widow, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy.
In his brother of the Attorney-General of the time she said to her husband and f. Robert Kennedy, LBJ antagonist long, even discussed ways to prevent that Johnson won the Democratic nomination in a future competition.
The book, "Jacqueline Kennedy: historical Conversations on life with John f. Kennedy," includes a series of interviews given by the former first lady historian and former Kennedy Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., shortly after her husband was assassinated on November 22, 1963. Over seven sessions, it recalls conversations on topics ranging from the reading habits of her husband in the invasion of the Bay of pigs rushed to Cuba.
The book will be published by New York - based Hyperion Books on 14 September. Its release comes on the 50th anniversary of the first year of Kennedy in the Office. The Associated Press acquired a copy Thursday.
JFK chose Johnson, Texas Senator and former rival political, as his running mate in 1960. But Jacqueline Kennedy said Schlesinger of 1964 interviews that he fretted their venerate but often on the prospect of a Presidency of Johnson.
"Jack he told me sometimes." "He said: 'Oh, God, can you ever imagine what would happen in the country if the President Lyndon?'"She recalled. "And Bobby told me he had discussions with him... do something for someone else in 1968 the name".
Johnson was sworn in as President after the assassination of JFK and was elected to a full term in 1964. He refused his re-election in 1968.
Jacqueline Kennedy also stated that her husband was very skeptical on the victory in the Viet Nam, a central field of battle of the cold war and the conflict that brought down the Presidency of Johnson. She said that JFK, a Democrat, had appointed Henry Cabot Lodge, a Republican, he had beaten for a seat in the Massachusetts Senate in 1952, as Ambassador of the United States to the Viet Nam because JFK was so doubtful of military success y.
"I think there probably... rather suggests it might be such a brilliant thing because the Viet Nam was enough desperate anyway and put a Republican,"said Jacqueline Kennedy.""
JFK increased American presence in the Viet Nam in his brief administration, adding military advisers to help train Vietnamese soldiers. Johnson, as Chairman, later would commit ground troops to the conflict despite initial promises not to do. Historians still debate whether Kennedy would have done the same.
Talks about Jacqueline Kennedy rights leader skeptically civic Martin Luther King Jr. It was called "tricky" and a "shell" after having heard tapes of FBI him and a woman in his hotel room, while noting that JFK had urged no step to be judgmental. (JFK own adulterous Affairs were not yet widely known.) She said that King had whistled funeral and Cardinal Richard Cushing, who celebrated a mass at the funeral of her husband.
"He mocked Cardinal Cushing and said that he was drunk to her," she said. "And things that they almost abandoned the coffin." I did just see a picture of Martin Luther King without thinking, you know, that of the terrible human. »
The book is delivered with eight audio CD of interviews. The voice of Jacqueline Kennedy is firm and Madames, even and clear, but the interviews are sometimes interrupted by sounds of her children, Caroline, who was 5 at the time, and John Jr., who was 3. Schlesinger asks young John if he knows what happened to his father.
"He went to heaven," the boy answers.
Schlesinger asked what he remembers.
"I do remember ANY-thing", John says playful.
The book barely mentions the assassination of the President. In a preface, Caroline Kennedy notes her mother had long considered his murder with historian William Manchester but later brought an action to avoid much of the material published up to 2067. Book Manchester on Kennedy, "Death of a President", published in 1967.
Jacqueline Kennedy also gave a memorable interview with journalist Theodore h. White, when it refers to the time of her husband in the White House as "Camelot", but Caroline Kennedy said the interviews in the new book "by far the most important" his mother donna never.
"My mother voluntarily recalled his marital life and shared his gaze on the political personality of my father private and public," Caroline Kennedy wrote.
The former first lady, who died in 1994, and Schlesinger, who died in 2007, both sound like a couple of old friends sharing gossip, ridiculing wife of Richard Nixon, Pat, or marking the LBJ, Lady Bird wife, as if obeying that she was as a "trained hunting dog". (It would soften later opinion).
At other times, the learned Schlesinger tells him details about her husband before she knew him or correct a name or a date.
Jacqueline Kennedy, clearly uncomfortable, speaks frankly on his in-laws and other insiders of Kennedy. She marvels the suspicious nature of his stepmother, Rose Kennedy, always wanting to know if someone was Catholic.
"There seems to be on all these Irish - they always seem to have a sort of thing from persecution to their topic, they do?" she asked.
Also, she accuses sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver of excessive personal ambition and says that the President was anxious to dump FBI Chief j. Edgar Hoover. She confides that she lacks confidence in the White House speechwriter Theodore Sorensen and assistance, believing he encouraged the perception that he had ghostwritten for her husband winner of the Pulitzer "profiles in Courage" award
"You know, Jack forgiven so quickly, but I've never forgiven Ted Sorensen," said.
Sorensen, who died last year, has been widely seen as devoted to JFK. Jacqueline Kennedy, President, stated that staff looking, even gave Sorensen royalties from the book.
It provides intimate details of her husband in waiting for the results of the elections in 1960, when he defeated Nixon to the Presidency, or even to work on his inaugural speech. It said little about the events in Dallas on November 22, 1963, but she remembers a conversation in their room from the previous day. She despised Democratic Governor of Texas, John Connally, who was in the car with the Kennedys, while the President was shot. She said that she could not support him and his "soft mouth".
"Jack was so sweet." He kind of rubbed my back... and said, "You should not say that you should not say this," "she has recalled." "" "If you start to say or think that you hate someone, then the next day you act as if you hated him."
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