“A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.”

— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

On a 1962 visit to India 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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