[Assam] Busy applying make-up, Jacqueline kept Nehru waiting

[Pradip Kumar Datta]

Busy applying make-up, Jacqueline kept Nehru waiting
13 Aug 2007, 1200 hrs IST,PTI

       NEW DELHI: Former US President  John F Kennedy's wife Jacqueline had once kept Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru  waiting at the airport, as she was busy applying make-up. 

"Jackie Kennedy kept Nehru waiting at the airport as she  was applying her make-up," former foreign secretary Lalit Mansingh said at a  function here recently. 

Jackie, as  Jacqueline preferred to be called, was the First Lady of the United States from  1961 to 1963 and was known for her fashionable dressing. 

In 1962, she came to India on a solo goodwill tour where  she also met Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi. 

"Though it was not a protocol but Nehru had still gone  to the airport to receive her," Mansingh later said. 

She was so impressed by the Taj Mahal during a visit  there that she decided to return to see the 17th century monument of love at  night. 

Equally popular as her  husband on their foreign visits, Jackie as particularly welcomed by the French,  making President Kennedy to quip at a state dinner there: "I do not think it  altogether inappropriate to introduce myself...I am the man who accompanied  Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris and I have enjoyed it." 

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2276877.cms

       
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