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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...dispatcher at the Hospital Ambulance. Oxygen & Equipment Co., put the telephone back on its cradle and called out to Driver Willard Baucom. "Emergency call." he said. "Go to 3307 N Street, N.W., and pick up a Mrs. Kennedy." Then the significance of his message slowly dawned on Kipps. "At first it didn't register at all." he recalled later. "When it did, I got really excited...
...daughter Caroline three years ago-a record that had curtailed her campaigning). Dr. Walsh assured her that all would be well, as the ambulance attendants tucked her into a litter. At Georgetown University Hospital, just ten blocks away, the young woman who will be the nation's next First Lady was taken to the operating room. Like Caroline, the baby was to be delivered by Caesarean section...
Awaiting the birth of her son, Jacqueline Kennedy had also been giving serious thought to her prospective role as First Lady of the land. The first obligation, she told a friend, must be "taking care of the President." Her next responsibility is to her children: "I don't want them to be brought up by nurses and Secret Service men. I will make every effort to be with my children even more now." Then she added, wistfully: "Also, they probably won't see as much of their father as ordinary children...
...Jackie's first moves was the appointment of Letitia Baldrige, 33, to be her social secretary. Lively and chic, "Tish" Baldrige knows her way around Washington and a few foreign parts as well. The daughter of a onetime Republican Congressman, Nebraska's Malcolm Baldrige, she went to Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn. and to Vassar, served as social secretary to Mrs. David K.E. Bruce (when Bruce was ambassador in Paris) and Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce in Rome (Roman Candle, Tish's memoirs of her days in Italy, was published in 1956). Jackie and Tish...
...first press conference last week, Tish Baldrige described a few plans of the new First Lady to make the big house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue a home: ¶ One of the rooms will become-for the first time since 1901-a nursery. ¶ Jackie plans to scatter some of her own eighteenth century French antiques and porcelains around the White House to give the family quarters a more familiar look...