“If I ever feel sorry for myself, which is a most fatal thing,” Jackie said, “I think of her. I’ve seen her cry just twice, a little bit. Once was at Hyannis Port, when I came into her room. Her husband was ill, and Jack was gone, and Bobby had been killed… and the other time was on [a] ship after her husband died, and we were standing on the deck at the rail together, and we were talking about something—just something that reminded her. And her voice began to sort of break and she had to stop. Then she took my hand and squeezed it and said, ‘Nobody’s ever going to have to feel sorry for me.
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