Mary Lincoln and Jackie Kennedy

[Eva Elisabeth]

(11-16-2013 10:48 AM)Rhatkinson Wrote:  Jackie also put her children's needs over her own, unlike Mary who was too overcome with grief to care for Tad.

Yes, obviously she overcame her grief. I wonder what her children felt when she, only five years later, replaced their father by a man (receiving allegedly a $5 million wedding gift for giving up her good name) whose wife had divorced him after discovering his affair to Maria Callas when he had dated her on the yacht named after his daughter. And somehow - as I see it - it doesn't match this wonderful statement:
"...I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with him and see our children grow up together."
Well, some children might cope well with their parents' re-marriage, I don't know how the Kennedy children did.