Sunday, January 23, 2011

Kennedy White House staffers remember the good times at a 50th anniversary luncheon

Chief Justice Earl Warren administers oath of office to President John F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 1961. (AP/File) On the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's inauguration, Letitia Baldrige cast her mind back not to the soaring speeches and glamorous balls -- but rather to "how hard it was to move everything in!"It seems that the legendary social secretary spent much of Jan. 20, 1961, working like a pack mule. "We were trying to get as much of Jackie Kennedy's things into the White House before the inauguration" -- without, of course, being gauche enough to do so under the gaze of Mamie Eisenhower -- "and when you're carrying a long ball gown over your arm, everyone knows what that is, and they're trying to get a look." Former social secretary Letitia Baldrige, at head of table, with a gathering of Kennedy White House staff -- and


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