Jackie Kennedy’s Best Hostess Advice and Most Memorable Entertaining Moments Inline

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    Jacqueline Kennedy decorating Easter eggs in Palm Beach, FL with Caroline and John Kennedy and Sally and Kathy Fay in April 1962

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    President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy greet guests at his party for Nobel Prize winners at the White House

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    Mrs. Alan B. Shepard (L) and Jacqueline Kennedy (R) at a reception for astronaut Shepard at the White House

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    Jacqueline Kennedy serves tea to female reporters as they interview her during high tea at her home

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    President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy host a party for Pakistan's President Mohamed Ayub Khan and his daughter

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    Jacqueline Kennedy opening the newly refurbished Treaty Room with Senator Everett Dirksen, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Senator Mike Mansfield, Maureen Hayes Mansfield, and Dr. Wayne C. Grover on June 28, 1962

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    President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy gather with others in the East Room during a dinner in honor of Nobel laureates from the Wester Hemisphere on April 29, 1962

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    President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy at a birthday for the President’s given by the White House staff on May 29, 1963

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    President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy greet Fredric March in the White House on April 29, 1962

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    President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy arrive at a dinner in honor of Minister of State for Cultural Affairs of France, André Malraux on May 11, 1962

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    Cellist Pablo Casals bows to Jacqueline Kennedy in the East Room of the White House on November 13, 1961

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    President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy attend a dinner in honor of President of the Ivory Coast, Félix Houphouët-Boigny