the president had persuaded Jackie and the children to go to her beloved Glen Ora in Virginia. And as soon as the First Lady was gone, Dave Powers had called for Mimi, who arrived at once. She had spent the next two days in the White House watching the president go downstairs for lengthy meetings, hiding from a disapproving Bobby Kennedy and feeling safe, swaddled like a baby in the finest bedsheets, as the president set about saving America’s eastern seaboard from nuclear oblivion—a catastrophe, really, of his own making.
