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When Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. related to her an incident that he had
witnessed firsthand--Mr. Johnson had actually placed his penis over the
railing of the yacht, bragging to onlookers, "Watch it touch bottom!" --
Mrs. Kennedy could not help but shiver with disgust. Capitol Hill reporters
have observed the logical extension of Mr. Johnson boasting about his six-
o'clock-in-the-morning forays with Lady Bird, to his bursts of phallic
exhibitionism, whether it be on a boat or at the swimming pool or in the
lavatory. Apropos of this tendency, Drew Pearson's assistant, Jack
Anderson, has remarked: "When Lyndon announces there's going to be a
joint session of Congress, everybody cringes."

It is true that Mrs. Kennedy withstood the pressures of publicized
scandal, ranging from the woman who picketed the White House carrying
a blown-up photograph supposedly of Jack Kennedy sneaking away from
the home of Jackie's press secretary, Pamela Turnure, to the Blauvelt
Family Genealogy which claimed on page 884, under Eleventh Generation,
that one Durie Malcolm had "married, third, John F. Kennedy, son of
Joseph P. Kennedy, one time Ambassador to England." But it was the
personal infidelities that gnawed away at her--as indeed they would gnaw
away at any wife who has been shaped by this culture--until finally Jackie
left in exasperation. Her father-in-law offered her one million dollars to

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