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Jackie's girl : my life with the Kennedy family / Kathy McKeon.

ISBN: 1501158945
ISBN: 9781501158940
Physical Description: 309 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Gallery Books, 2017.

Summary:

In 1964, Kathy McKeon was just nineteen years old and newly arrived from Ireland when she was hired as the personal assistant to former first lady Jackie Kennedy. The next thirteen years of her life were spent in Jackie's service, during which Kathy not only played a crucial role in raising young Caroline and John Jr., but also had a front-row seat to some of the twentieth century's most significant events. Because Kathy was always at Jackie's side, Rose Kennedy deemed her "Jackie's girl." And although Kathy called Jackie "Madam," she considered her employer more like a big sister who, in many ways, mentored her on how to be a lady. Kathy was there during Jackie and Aristotle Onassis's courtship and marriage and Robert Kennedy's assassination, dutifully supporting Jackie and the children during these tumultuous times in history.