Secret Service logs show that Jackie spent a great deal more time away from the White House than at the White House. She spent almost all the steamy summer months out of Washington and, even when she was there, regularly left on Friday afternoon for their rented Virginia horse farm Glen Ora, or to go to the Kennedy family seat at Hyannis Port in Cape Cod, and did not return until Monday or later.
'The girls were led over to the President. I'll have that one, he said'
Jack never left the White House until Saturday.
Jackie was a rebel and a free spirit at heart, and the White House seemed claustrophobic.
Furthermore, she could close her eyes to what Jack was up to when she was not with him.
'It's amazing - he used to do it in front of her,' said a well-known New York debutante several years younger than Jackie.
'In New York a great friend, one of his ex-girls, organised an after-theatre party. He had obviously said to her, "Can you get me a bunch of young nice girls?"'
'I was invited and another great friend of mine was asked. The two of us were riveted so we both went. There were about four or five other friends, single girls we knew also. One by one, each of us was told, "The President would like to speak to you", and we were led over for about ten minutes.
'I wasn't as enamoured of him as other people were. I didn't think he was this great sex symbol. But what fascinated us all was that Jackie was sitting there and he actually said, ''I'll take that one."'
'I know exactly who won. She shall be nameless. This was a very shy, divine girl, Very pretty, very tall. The next time I saw Jackie was when they asked me to a party at the White House. It was the last party before he was killed.
'She was waltzing around, and he would dance with a girl for five minutes and then they would disappear up in the lift and then they'd be back in 20 minutes. We just sat there watching, my friend and I.
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