>> michelle stays out of the limelight for a time and then bursts back onto the scene. >> it's exciting. >> more than any other first lady, michelle obama has become a symbol of hope and possibility for millions across the united states and beyond. >> she redefined the role of first lady on her own terms. >> her background is something that she celebrates as much as her accomplishments. i think that is one of the reasons why she is such a unique first lady. >> each of us has a mission in this world. >> she gave a lot of kids around the country permission to be themselves. walk a little taller, think a little bit bigger, dream a little bit higher. >> my story can be your story. >> i think that is her legacy. >> are you listening to me? do you hear what i'm telling you? >> as great as michelle obama was in the white house, she's

free now and you have not heard or seen anything yet. >> i always knew from the first time that i met her that she was special. she always had this inner strength and tenacity and conviction and compassion. >> so don't be afraid. do you hear me? young people, don't be afraid. be determined. lead by example with hope. never fear. >> yes, she has grown mightily. but the core essence of michelle robinson who i met in 1991 is still there today. >> being your first lady has been the greatest honor of my life, and i hope i've made you proud. [ applause ] ♪

it's snowing and there is this is ethereal feeling because she's dressed in this beautiful white down and they just seem to be stepping into the fairytale. and jack kennedy says to the driver, turn on the interior lights so people can see them as they go by. and he asked his wife to sit forward, because she is so beautiful. having the president from that very moment place her in the spotlight tells us what the presidency is going to be like and how mrs. kennedy will be at the center of it. ♪

♪ >> inauguration day, 1961. america welcomes a young and glamorous president and first lady to the white house. dwight eisenhower was 70. here came kennedy who was 43. and mrs. kennedy is 31. >> the kennedys knew how to turn their youth into something deeper and more symbolic of america entering an age of renewal with a new generation, they were going to conquer the world. >> jackie was the epitome of style and glamor. this was going to be a white house of unprecedented elegance. and the country loved it. >> going to the inauguration was amazing. this was new and energetic. this was in fact the new frontier. >> jackie later recalled her memories of that momentous day.

>> everyone said why didn't jack kiss you after, which he would never do there. but you had to march out in such order. and i so badly wanted to see him alone. >> she's worried about being separated from her husband as he starts this new role as leader of the free world. she didn't know what would it do to her marriage and she can't quite get to him. >> i caught up to him in the capitol. he is looking to me and there really were tears in his eyes. i mean, there was so much more emotion than any kiss. oh, jack, what a day. >> the kennedys had already recognized jackie's value. >> she was much more elegant, to put it mildly, than my family, the kennedy family, known primarily for football and sailing. jackie had a really good sense of taste and elegance. >> jackie had a very privileged childhood.

she had every advantage in terms of her education. she went to vasser. >> jackie kennedy was the perfect prize of the wasp establishment. she also knew that the kennedy family was using her. she once said that family treats me like a thing, like an asset, like rhode island. even her own wedding was a political event. >> for the spectators outside the church, it is a real story book wedding. the top society wedding of the year. >> there's glamour on the outside, heart ache on the inside. jackie's own father gets so drunk before the wedding that he can't make it up the aisle. >> jacqueline kennedy had a father she adored, john bouvier but he had many flaws. he was an alcoholic, a gambler, he was a womanizer. >> after divorcing john bouvier, jackie's mother, janet, married the standard oil heir. >> janet hits the gold mine there.

he is incredibly wealthy and she drills into jackie's mind, you need to marry a wealthy man. you need to have that security. >> with a political life and a rising star. >> there were 1,200 people at the reception. jackie said she didn't even know the guests at her own wedding. >> to be at your own wedding and meet hundreds of people that you don't know. that says a lot about their relationship. jack and jackie kennedy to this day remain the only first couple to have a baby, john f. kennedy jr., between the election of the president and the inauguration. she had a cesarean section birth. and john jr. had a lung ailment. when he was born.

>> that day she was absolutely exhausted. you see them on the platform and she's there. suddenly she's vanished. she simply physically couldn't keep up. that was when she went back into the white house. she didn't know, how am i going to go off to five different inaugural balls. showed the absent herself and go, not too strong to say, collapse in her new home, the white house. >> i was really so tired that day. and that night, i was just laid out in the queen's bed. i just couldn't move. >> she calls for the president's physician, dr. janet travell, who comes in with two pills. >> she had two pills, a green one and an orange one. she told me to take the orange one. and i did and i said what is it? she said it was dexadrin which i had never taken. in my life. >> it turns out that's an

amphetamine, speed, to rev up the motor of the individual. >> and mrs. kennedy said it did. it allowed her to get out of bed, get dressed, and look her most beautiful. >> jackie rejoins her husband for the first inaugural ball. ♪ >> on this greatest of all days, high on dexadrin, this young queen goes into the night. jackie kennedy knew how to pout a show. >> here was this stunningly beautiful 31-year-old woman playing this new role of a gorgeous first lady of the united states. >> if we didn't know the so-called back story, we would think that there was absolutely nothing wrong. she got through it as far as the dexadrine would take her but she couldn't get through the whole evening. >> it was like cinderella and the clock striking midnight. i guess the pill wore off. so jack said go home now.

>> he carried on to three more inaugural balls and various parties where he was seen with women, not his wife, and carries on without her. >> it was never going to be smooth sailing between them. because they were two fiercely independent people. but this independence was a secret of surviving being married to jack kennedy. ♪ ♪ you're all, you're all i need ♪ ♪ you're all, you're all i need ♪ ♪ as long as i got you then baby ♪ ♪ you know that you've got me, oh! yea...♪ ♪

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if you don't do that part well. your failure has been your children. >> the kennedys had a 2-month-old son, a 3-year-old very boisterous fun loving daughter caroline. >> jackie was a good mother. she was excellent with them in the white house and they have a lot of fun. i think she did everything she could to normalize it. >> do you really hope to keep a private life for your children? >> i hope it is. i will try very hard to do that. otherwise, how can i bring up normal children? >> president kennedy knew the asset of having a photogenic family because he had come from one. and he knew those two children were beautiful and beguiling. >> when jackie was out of town with caroline, president kennedy asked, is there anyone here from "look" magazine? and there is this iconic photograph of john kennedy jr. peeking out from underneath resolute desk in the oval office.

the president said he knew she would be angry, i will take the brunt of it. jackie came back and was furious. >> jackie came from a political family. they were accustomed to sharing their lives and jackie didn't think that was helpful for a child to be exposed at the age of 3 to the mass media. so they didn't always agree about that. >> jackie has her own ideas on how to make her mark as first lady. >> what do you think has to be done to the white house? >> there's very little antique furniture here now. the thing i care about most is to make it more of a museum. >> mrs. kennedy is gentlemen upset at what she sees in the white house when she arrives. it looked like the furnishings had come from a statler hotel, she said. >> she understood white house should represent the history that had taken place there. >> jackie has grand plans to

transform the white house. but she immediately faces opposition. >> everybody on president kennedy's staff said no. you don't know what you're doing. how dare you touch white house. she's 31 years old. she stands up to all the president's advisers and says, i'm going ahead. >> jackie raises money to buy back furniture belonging to past presidents and persuades collectors to donate antiques. she welcome as film crew into the private quarters for the first time. >> mrs. kennedy, i want to thank you for letting us visit your official home. this is obviously the room from which much of your work on it is directed. >> yes, it is attic and cellar all in one. >> this was probably her most important performance during her whole time at the white house. she was tense. she was very, very nervous. every time they had a break, she would smoke like chimney.

she had some brown liquor with her and invariably, she would drop the ashes on this beautiful silk settee, you know? >> so exciting to see things every day. >> at the end of the day, the producer shows the kennedys what they had filmed. >> they said when he looked over at jack, his admiration and pride was unmistakable. >> everything in the white house should be the best. >> for the next hour, mrs. john f. kennedy invites you to visit the white house and see the restorations she's made. >> a record 80 million viewers watched jackie's tour. donations to her restoration project flood in. >> are all the pieces from lincoln's time? >> yes, they are. the most famous one, of course, is the linkon bed. every read that seemed to love it.

>> they got rave reviews. there were governors' wives all over the country that said we have to do this with the governor's mansion. >> people tended to underestimate her intelligence, which was considerable. the whole historic preservation movement in this country owes a great debt of gratitude to her. >> the dictatorships of fidel castro. >> three months into the presidency, the kennedy administration suffers its first major setback. the cia backed invasion of cuba ends in disaster. >> reality really bit both kennedys. kennedy had been too influenced by advisers. >> we came back to the white house. he started to cry.

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president john. kennedy in france, the president is greeted by chairman charles de gaulle. >> reeling from the bay of business, they embarked on a tour. >> president kennedy needs allies, but charles de gaulle is

famously cold and steer. >> crowd estimated as high as two million here to cheer the president. >> but all eyes were on jackie [ speaking foreign language ] >> people are screaming, villa jacqueline, viva jacqueline. they were taken aback by how many people were there. she was a francophile. she loved america burks she had a real fascination with france. [ speaking foreign language ] it was a particular triumph to be as elegant as she was in milan that infect invented

elegance. >> imagine what it's like to try to have a conversation with the president of france. you can't be talking about paris fashion. they're talking about french history. de gaulle said she knows more history than most french women. >> i do not think it altogether inappropriate to introduce myself. i'm the man who accompanied jacqueline kennedy to paris, and i've enjoyed it. >> in the eyes of her husband, she now was a major asset in diplomacy, making inroads in areas where he was not doing that well. >> after paris, kennedy tastes his first soup irpower summit with soviet leader nikita crew sjef. >> kennedy thought he could get

through that summit by virtue of his knowledge, which was spansi. >> president kennedy expressed america's desire for correct fif nuclear test controls. >> crew sjef did not allow that to happen. in fact, he bullied kennedy. >> once again, it's jackie who breaks the ice. >> when khrushchev saw jackie, his fate lit up. when the snow melts in the springtime. and he is doing everything possible to impress mrs. kennedy, including telling him how many tractors were made. she said in her breathy voice, oh, mr. chairman, don't bore me with statistics. and he laughed. he loved her sharp wit. >> jackie's impact on nikita

crkhrushchev at a minimum diverd attention. she described it as the toughest thing i've been through. >> the president's loyalty to her has its limits. >> i said what are you going do about all your affairs, jack? and he said, well, you know in the white house it should be easier. the secret service will protect me. and he was right. the secret service did protect him. >> jackie kennedy was well aware of her husband's infidelities. how could she miss. her own secretary pam turner was sleeping with the president, along with a lot of other women who worked at the white house. jackie was no fool. they were all around him. >> i thought jackie really loved jack and was trying to get him to be faithful to her.

>> during a family football game at bobby kennedy's home jackie sprains her ankle. she is the ended to by bobby's friend and neighbor dr. frank finerty. >> the way he projected compassion and warmth clicked with her and she said do you think i could call you from time to time and he said, yes, of course. >> she calls him twice a week. >> she said i'm not naive. i know that he's having a lot of affairs. she alleged that he was having an affair with marilyn monroe. she said that really bothered her. she somehow felt inadequate. it was his role to reassure her that it was not her fault and at the same time he actually gave her a kind of set of talking

points about how to improve their sex life, and she said it had actually improved but he was still womanizing. >> acc was working as a photo journalist for the washington times her rald when she was spruced to jack kennedy through mutual friends. >> i think we automatic think thought they would be good for each other. he was fun. he was very good looking and she was intelligent and fun to be with. >> jackie kennedy took one look at jack and found a chance. >> but when jack proposed, jackieing a ni ing agonized for before answering. >> she could see the prospect of adventure, but she also sensed danger. she knew he had the capacity to be unfaithful, but she decided

that life with him was worth it. and that she loved him. she was being interviewed three years into their marriage, which was really -- and their relationship sort of hit rock bottom. >> pretty much in love with him. >> oh, no. >> she knew that he had been a play-by-but she not know the full scale. >> i didn't know, did i? >> she couldn't say anything other than an honest reaction in that moment. >> you are pretty much, aren't you? >> as most are. >> by 1958, jackie had had enough of her husband's infidelities. while jack was away campaigning, me is confided in wallet ritter. >> she said he's so badly behaved. he's away again.

god knows who he's with. i can't take it anymore. i think i have to divorce him. he said think about this. you do not want to have on your conscious that you prevented him from becoming president. by divorcing him, she would have ended his political career. but by staying with him, there would be a tradeoff, giving her the latitude, if he became president, to do what she wanted to do. >> mr. president, the late marilyn monroe. ♪ ♪ happy birthday to you >> at jack's 45th birthday celebration, jackie is noticeably absent. ♪ ♪ happy birthday mr. president.

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a strategic air command soars high over cuba. the evidence is unmistakable. >> president kennedy's informed that the soviets are building missile sites in cuba. the world stands on the brink of north korea war. >> my father said to us children, we're in real trouble. do you want to get away and go into a shelter? and we all said no, we'll stay with you, daddy. and the same thing happened with jackie. >> we just want to be with you. we want to die with you and if

children do, too. >> it shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from cuba against any nation in the western atmosphere as an attack. >> a lot of people were scared it was going to be the end of the world. >> the generals wanted to go to war. >> sometimes he would take me out and walk around the lawn. we didn't often do that. just walk quietly, which is essential. >> as soviet ships sailed towards cuba, kennedy defies his military advisors and orders a naval blockade. kennedy demands that the missile sites be dismantled. khrushchev refuses. >> there was no waking or sleeping and i don't know which day was which. there was no day and night. that's the time i've be closest

to him. >> she really knew what was going on. she was a sounding board and they were growing closer together through this trauma. >> as the days go by, the pressure mounts on kennedy to invade cube, an act that would result in war. on the 13th day kennedy and khrushchev finally break the deadlock. >> i have today be informed by chairman khrushchev that all weapons will be withdrawn in 30 days. >> nuclear war averted, kennedy presents his chosest advisors with tiffany silver calendars marked with the 13 crucial days. he also gives one to jackie. >> and finally it was over. he was giving a calendar to everyone. i was just happy that i was there. >> it was elevating her as someone he looked upon with as much respect as he did his own

brother, who was by his side those 13 days. that gift was incredibly important to her and she treasured it all her life. >> yesterday a shaft of light cut into the darkness. negotiations were concluded in moscow to ban all nuclear tests in the atmosphere. >> 1963 had been a good year for jack and jackie and the most important thing in their personal lives right then was they were looking forward to the berth of a third child. >> jackie was surrounded by kennedys who were having loads of children, including bobby and ethel who went on to have 11. jackie has these difficult pregnancies. seven years earlier jackie went into premature labor but jack

was absent. >> she gave birth to a still governor daughter whom she named arabela. jack was away being a play boy in the south of france. its took somebody saying to him you have to get on a plane and go home and be with your wife at this moment. but in 1963, his mind set was very different. when she went into labor. >> mrs. kennedy has given birth to a four-pound 10 and a half ounce baby boy. it was five months premature. >> baby patrick is immediately taken from his mother with breathing dits and flown to boston for life saving treatment. >> he could look inside the hole in the incubator. when it was finally clear that he was going to die, they brought him out and put him in

his father's arms. >> patrick kennedy died at 4:04 a.m. >> say again. >> the struggle of the baby boy breathing was too much for his heart. >> jackie only saw patrick in an ipg baiter. she never had a chance to hold him in her arms. jack was disconsulate and he immediately flew to the hospital where jackie was. >> he came back from boston to me in the hospital and he walked in in the morning about kwl 8:00 in my room and sobbed and put his arms around me. >> after patrick, they were a lot closer. it's the first time i've ever seen them hold hands.

>> it was symbolic that he would be so publicly tender to her. it showed the world that this was something that they were sharing and had, in fact, deepened their bond. >> a month later jackie writes to charles bartlett, the friend who had introduced her to jack. >> it begins as a rather gratitude to charley for having been the matchmaker back in 1951. >> i have so much to thank you for, dear charlie. all my life, when i think of the narrow escapes, how we might nevada have met is most frightening. >> i think the most poignant thing in the letter she writes that without jack, her life would have been a wasteland. that is a very vivid image. you do get the sense that they

have achieved this point in their marriage and it is actually followed by her recommitment, really, to their marriage and too their political life. >> i introduced myself in paris by saying i was the map who accompanied mrs. kennedy to paris. i'm getting sort of that same sort of situation traveling around texas. >> there's no question that he was thrilled that she wanted to come to texas with him. she wanted to campaign with him. >> this is a very dangerous and uncertain world. we would like to live as we once lived. >> it was a bright suppy day and jackie put on her sun flass and jack said please take them off. i want them to see you.

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it will only a matter of minutes before he arrives at the trade mart. the freeway was jam packed with spectators waiting to see the president. >> they're in the car and jackie thinks she hears some backfire. and she turns to lock at her husband and she sees literally his brains being blown out. >> it appears as though something has happened in the motorcade route, i repeat, something has happened in the motorcade route. >> the sounds, the screams and the racing, for her to then literally fall into her lap so that she is staring into the wound and knowing that he's gone. >> people running up the hill

angel m street. >> she's in a war zone and starts to climb out of the car. >> then clint hill pushes her back do you know, the secret service agent. but now she's back in this horror chamber in which her husband has been murdered. >> they're going to parkland hospital. >> president kennedy has been designated. it's official now. the president is dead. there's only one word to describe the picture here and that's grief. secret servicemen standing by the emergency room tears streaming down their face. >> this is probably going to be one of the last times she is with him ever. very soon they're going to come and put him in a casket and she wants to give him something, something personal that she can put in with him, i guess to have a piece of her with him and she chooses her wedding band and removes it from her finger and

attempts to place it on his. >> president kennedy's body is to be placed aboard air force i. arrangements for swearing in the new president are being made. >> she is wear a blood stapd suit. she was asked what she like to change and she refuses and says, with maybe anger," i want them to see what they've done to jack." >> i solemnly swear. >> that i will faithfully execute. >> standing next to lippedon johnson, yes, she's in shock, but she's already thinking, what is she going to do to preserve her husband's legacy. >> on the flight back, she is talking about wanting her husband's funeral to be just like lincoln's funeral. she knows the symbolism of the

lincoln marrer dom should infuse her husband's roll in the world. in washington, he gasped to see her appear behind the casket streaked with her husband's blood. she was the message that her husband had been killed in a political assassination. >> president kennedy's body is returned to the white house, only then does jackie finally leave his side. >> that was a moment, i'm sure, of profound isolation for her. >> in the eight second that it took to fire off three shots, she lost her husband, her job, and her home. >> and she said i had worked so hard at the marriage, and succeeded, and he had really come to love me and to congratulate me on what i did for him.

>> she said just when we had it all settled, she rad the rug pulled out from under her without any power to do anything about it. that's not true, actually. she had power and she used it. >> in the imposing rotunda of the capital, the casket rests on the same cat po. >> she chose to walk behind her husband's casket. this creates a night may for the secret service. >> the secret service say if you're going to match from the white house to st. matthew's cathedral, which is about seven, eight, blocks, surrounded by tall buildings, the very kind of building that president kennedy was shot from in dallas. and people are going to walk in solidarity with you. the secret service said under no

circumstances should president johnson take that risk. >> ozs walled has been shot. >> that day kennedy's assassin was shot in dallas. >> jackie stage managed her husband's funeral perfectly. every detail, riderless horse, two heartbreaking children standing next to her with john john saluting as his father's coffin rolled by. >> and jackie holds firm to her final wish. >> jackie walked with bobby and teddy, followed by all these other world leaders, charles de gaulle and prince philip, halle selassie. >> believed to be first time a president's widow has walked in his funeral procession.

all followed behind the president's casket. >> jackie doesn't know whether president johnson has joined the procession. reaching the cathedral, she turns to see he's defied the secret service. she smiles, the only smile displayed those four days. >> she's so happy that johnson has followed her lead. fact these leaders put their own lives at risk meant a lot to her. >> i remember my parents saying if she can get through this, so can we. >> these became iconic moments for the nation when the presidency reminds us of who we are. >> the funeral was incredibly memorable capstone to this all too brief presidency. it really was the beginning of the creation of her husband's legacy.

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trying to get jump on the first grasp of history, journalism. >> midway through recalling the events in dallas in graphic detail, jackie suddenly changes the subject. >> she tells this very sweet story that they would put on the soundtrack from the broadway musical "camelot," that the president's favorite line was don't let it be forgot that once there was a spot for one brief shining moment known as camelot. and then mrs. kennedy said there will be great presidents again but there will never be another camelot. >> arthurian legend is full of infidelity, betrayal, death and loss. so there's a darker side that's weirdly the truthful image. but like many things that jackie kennedy did it was brilliant stagecraft. the thousand days of jfk, it was brief and shining. white said she could have sold him the brooklyn bridge.

he was going to do anything for her, but she's pouring over his copy and she edits it. white files a story, editors a little skeptical, is this camelot a little bit much? she insists, no camelot, no story. >> country was enjoying a brief interregnum before vietnam, before watergate, an innocent america willing to be lured into fantasy. but it was a fantasy that was so appealing. >> jackie prepares to leave the white house for the last time. >> dear mr. chairman president, so now one of the last nights i will spend in the white house, in one of the last letters i will write, i would like to write m