Caroline Kennedy Girls Shouldn't Be 'Horrified' by Grandma
There is a ton of hoopla surrounding the release of tapes by Caroline Kennedy, of her mom, Jacqueline Kennedy, giving an interview to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., back in 1964. And, well, there should be a huge deal made of this! It is like opening a time capsule and getting a sneak peek into a world that seems totally foreign to so many of us. 1964 ... bwhaaa ... there were no personal computers (which means no Internet), there were still separate bathrooms for blacks and whites in many, many places in this country, there were *gasp* no mobile phones — or dare I say — answering machines (that is what we used to call the machines that recorded voice mail messages). And opinions on the sexes were pretty ass backwards.
So why is there so much shock and surprise at Jacqueline Kennedy verbally kowtowing to her man?
Talking about how, essentially, his political opinion was worth more than hers. Going so far as to say that women just weren't "suited" for politics. Why all of the surprise? Read More
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