Jackie Kennedy
First Lady
"The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life."
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American Life
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John F. Kennedy
Politician
"Race has no place in American life or law."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"There are no second acts in American lives."
Gore Vidal
Writer, Essayist, Playwright
"Envy is the central fact of American life."
Pierre Salinger
Journalist
"The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life."
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"When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical."
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