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find anybody like their first?" I remember pointing out that “Jackie had the worst problem. How could anybody marry a woman who had been married to the President of the United States? The first time they had a fight she would say, ‘Why, you poor so-and-so, my first husband was President of the United States.'”

Anyway, we became quite good friends with Jackie. We were at several dinner parties together.

Maybe through Truman Capote, too?

That was before, I think, Truman became intimate with her. My most recent encounter with Jackie Kennedy was rather unfortunate. It came about through Jim Bishop who was at that time a Random House author--I say “at that time” because we have come to a parting of the ways and I'll tell you that story in due course. When Bishop had done A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, Jack Kennedy had been very nice to Jim Bishop and let him wander at will through the White House. Jackie took offense at this because he took advantage of the privilege. She came in one day and found him counting the dresses in her private closet. She thought this was a hell of a nerve and indeed it was. Another time when little Carolyn was in the bathtub, being bathed by the nurse, Jackie found Jim Bishop sitting in the bathroom! She again protested, but of course he had been given the run of the White House by the President and that was his defense...that hewas doing an intimate story of a day in the life of President Kennedy.