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1st Lady JACQUELINE KENNEDY Signed Matted Color Photograph of the White House!

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Autographs Start Price:800.00 USD Estimated At:1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD
1st Lady JACQUELINE KENNEDY Signed Matted Color Photograph of the White House!
Autographs
Outstanding “Jacqueline Kennedy” Signed White House Color Photograph Perfectly Ready to Frame and Display
JACQUELINE LEE BOUVIER “JACKIE” KENNEDY (1929-1994). First Lady as Wife of John F. Kennedy.
c. 1961, Beautiful Matted Color Photograph of the White House Signed, “Jacqueline Kennedy” as First Lady, large 13.25” x 10” Photograph is matted to an overall size of 17.5” x 15”, Choice Extremely Fine. This gorgeous perspective of the White House is beautifully Signed on the matte “Jacqueline Kennedy” at lower left, and at lower right also bears the historic, famous quote from John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Speech:

“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy, January 20, 1961.”

The color Photograph in excellent condition with only tiny trivial hidden edge nicks along the extreme left and right. Overall, perfect and ready to frame and display, specially with the rich blue ink signature being very clear, “Jacqueline Kennedy” measuring a huge 4.25” long.
Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady of the United States married to 35th President John F. Kennedy (1929-94); beloved for her beauty, youthful style, and refined taste; was riding beside her husband when he was assassinated on November 22, 1963; in 1968, married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis; later in life, worked as an editor for Doubleday.

On January 20, 1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy took the oath of office to become the nation's 35th president. At age 31, Jacqueline Kennedy was the First Lady. With her gracious personal style and her passion for history and the arts, she worked hard to be worthy of her new role. While she had a deep sense of obligation to her country, her first priorities were to be a good wife to her husband and mother to her children. She told a reporter that "if you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much."

Restoring the White House

Mrs. Kennedy soon set about making the White House into a real home for her family. She turned the sun porch on the third floor into a kindergarten school for Caroline and 12 to 15 other children, who came every morning at 9:30. There was also a swimming pool, a swing set, and a tree house on the White House lawn for Caroline and John Jr. White House Blue Room after restoration, 24 January 1963.

Mrs. Kennedy also thought about what the White House represented to its many visitors and to citizens everywhere. She wanted people to have a greater appreciation of the history of America's most famous residence and its past inhabitants. Her first major project as first lady was to restore and preserve the White House.

She enlisted the aid of many experts, established a White House Fine Arts Committee, and created the post of White House curator. Gathering outstanding examples of American art and furniture from around the United States (including many items that had belonged to former presidents and their families), she restored all the public rooms in the White House. CBS Television asked Mrs. Kennedy to present a televised tour of the newly restored White House. Eighty million Americans watched the broadcast, and it earned Jacqueline Kennedy an honorary Emmy Award.