Busy applying make-up, Jacqueline kept Nehru waiting
13 Aug 2007, 1200 hrs IST,PTI
NEW DELHI: Former US President John F Kennedy's wife Jacqueline had
once kept Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru waiting at the airport, as she was
busy applying make-up.
"Jackie Kennedy kept Nehru waiting at the airport as she was applying her
make-up," former foreign secretary Lalit Mansingh said at a function here
recently.
Jackie, as Jacqueline preferred to be called, was the First Lady of the United
States from 1961 to 1963 and was known for her fashionable dressing.
In 1962, she came to India on a solo goodwill tour where she also met Nehru's
daughter Indira Gandhi.
"Though it was not a protocol but Nehru had still gone to the airport to
receive her," Mansingh later said.
She was so impressed by the Taj Mahal during a visit there that she decided to
return to see the 17th century monument of love at night.
Equally popular as her husband on their foreign visits, Jackie as particularly
welcomed by the French, making President Kennedy to quip at a state dinner
there: "I do not think it altogether inappropriate to introduce myself...I am
the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris and I have enjoyed it."
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2276877.cms
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