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PaigeBooth · (This post was last modified: 02-11-2017 09:29 PM by PaigeBooth.)

(02-11-2017 07:08 PM)L Verge Wrote: "I had no idea that as she was planning JFK's funeral, movers were already moving her out of the White House."

Very different from the kind treatment that a former President Johnson gave the grieving widow Lincoln (who did sort of overstay her welcome). I have heard that both President and Mrs. Lyndon Johnson could not wait to assume the reins of government and the White House. Strong personalities, both of them, and hard-core politicians.

I agree, Lyndon Johnson was a fierce politician who enjoyed power. However, by the time JFK was assassinated in 1963, LBJ was on his way out. Both JFK and his brother Bobby hated Lyndon Johnson. The only reason JFK chose LBJ as his running mate in 1960 was because of LBJ's popularity in Texas. By 1963, however, Johnson had seen his popularity plummet to zero, and Kennedy was planning to choose a new running mate in 1964. Had Kennedy lived, Lyndon Johnson would have slowly fallen from power. Thus, he was the one man who benefitted the most from JFK's death.
However, through my research, I have found that although Jackie was not fond of LBJ, he was respectful of her needs after the assassination.
When Jackie returned home from Dallas with her husband's body, LBJ refused to stay at the White House, despite pleas from the Secret Service that it was safer at the White House. LBJ insisted Jackie needed privacy.
I cannot imagine where the Jackie movie would have gotten the info that movers were packing things up while she was planning JFK's funeral. Although Jackie immediately began packing JFK's personal belongings from the Oval Office the day after the murder, I have never heard anything about movers packing things up against her will.
In my speech, I plan to portray LBJ as a man desperate for political power, and whose political career was saved by Kennedy's untimely death. However, I do not portray him as someone behind the plot to kill Kennedy, as many conspiracy theories suggest.

P.S. Eva, I have not found any evidence that Jackie did any charity work while she served as First Lady as of yet. Her time as First Lady was spent traveling around the world and meeting with world leaders, and as you noticed in the movie, redecorating the White House! Jackie loved privacy and raising her children was her first priority.