“It looks like it’s been furnished by discount stores.”

—  Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

On the White House; Quoted in A Hero for Our Time (1983) by Ralph G Martin

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public figure, First Lady to 35th U.S. President John F. Ke… 1929–1994

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