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...equipped with a "fire brigade" capable of quelling brushfire wars in Europe or Africa. During the campaign, Gavin offered Kennedy foreign policy recommendations by mail, sold himself as a potential diplomat with flair rather than experience, was pushed for Paris by Kennedy's Georgetown friend and neighbor. Bill Walton. Kennedy's design may be to match one obstreperous general with another (Gavin knows De Gaulle slightly), but the Quai d'Orsay was discreetly baffled by the appointment. So, less discreetly, were State Department regulars. Since Paris is one of the most expensive American embassies to maintain. Gavin...
...moment trip to the movies (Spartacus) with old Navy Buddy Paul B. Fay Jr. (now Under Secretary of the Navy). Kennedy's Choate roommate, K. Le Moyne Billings, now a Manhattan adman, comes and goes like a member of the family. So does husky Georgetown Artist Bill Walton, who befriended Jackie during her days as an inquiring photographer on the Washington Times-Herald. These people are all old friends, and Jack Kennedy sees no reason for sharing them with a curious public simply because he has been elected President. When White House regulars muttered about such a state...
...slow him down-then or later. Jackie Kennedy, arriving on the Caroline, had taken over virtually the whole house on N Street for her hairdressers and other attendants; Kennedy, fleeing from this female world, decided to make his temporary headquarters at the nearby home of a friend, Artist William Walton, an erstwhile journalist. In the afternoon, he drove to a Governors' reception at the Sheraton-Park, paid his respects all around, picked up Harry Truman and drove back home again. By now the traffic was tied in knots, and Kennedy canceled out on two receptions...
...political duties are over, Jackie shucks her toga with obvious relief. Last October, after the tumultuous ticker-tape parade through Manhattan, she whipped off her reversible coat, turned it inside out and went off, like a girl just out of school, with her friend and neighbor, Artist William Walton, to look at avant-garde paintings in the Tibor de Nagy Gallery...
Other Plans. Only three hours earlier, Jack Kennedy had kissed his wife and daughter goodbye and flown off again to Palm Beach. The three had spent a relaxed Thanksgiving Day together with just one guest, Friend and Neighbor William Walton. The baby was not due for another month. But before Jack was halfway back to Florida that night, his wife had a hemorrhage, and the baby made it unmistakably clear that it had other plans...