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001 3132007
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050 00 $aCT275.B316$bA3 2001
082 00 $a973.922/092$aB$221
100 1 $aBaldrige, Letitia.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50017622
245 12 $aA lady, first :$bmy life in the Kennedy White House and the American embassies of Paris and Rome /$cLetitia Baldrige.
260 $aNew York :$bViking,$c2001.
300 $axii, 292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes index.
520 1 $a"As young women studying at Vassar, Letitia's schoolmates were concerned with finding husbands. Letitia wanted to go to Paris. When she was told only men could get overseas diplomatic jobs, she became even more determined and landed a coveted position in the American Embassy of Paris. There she quickly learned the dos and don'ts of diplomacy while partaking in the city's lively postwar social scene - along with Jackie Bouvier, Marlene Dietrich, and Elizabeth Taylor.
520 8 $aThese experiences led to the exciting job of working for Clare Boothe Luce at the American Embassy in Rome in the early 1950s.".
520 8 $a"Back in the United States, as the first woman executive for Tiffany & Co., Letitia Baldrige was a trailblazer in the new field of public relations, appealing to the whims and tastes of the rich and famous, and those that aspired to be. Yet it was her role as the first lady's social secretary in the Kennedy White House that proved to be her most notable - and challenging.
520 8 $aShe has been privileged to lead a glamorous, high-spirited life, and has witnessed some of the pivotal events of her time: the hilarity of a young Jackie Kennedy's antics on her foreign diplomatic visits, the terror of the Cuban missile crisis, the heartbreak of President Kennedy's funeral.".
520 8 $a"Stylish, chic, and always polite, Letitia Baldrige manages to be a feminist and a lady at the same time. As the founder of Letitia Baldrige Enterprises, one of the first companies in the world to be run by a female CEO, and the author of countless books and articles about etiquette and protocol, she continues to be a role model and an inspiration to women across the country and around the world."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aBaldrige, Letitia.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50017622
650 0 $aSocial secretaries$zWashington (D.C.)$vBiography.
650 0 $aBusinesswomen$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009118110
600 10 $aKennedy, John F.$q(John Fitzgerald),$d1917-1963.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055297
600 10 $aOnassis, Jacqueline Kennedy,$d1929-1994.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50002974
852 00 $bglx$hCT275.B316$iA3 2001