Marilyn Monroe has apparently raised hopes of a marriage to US President John F. Kennedy. The screen blonde even called the White House and spoke to Kennedy's wife Jackie about the subject, writes the US journalist Christopher Andersen in a book that has now been published.
And Jackie Kennedy should not have been averse to it. "You move into the White House and take over all the duties of a first lady. And I'll move out and leave all the problems to you," said Andersen, quoting the US First Lady from a sensitive phone call with Monroe. The President's Affair with Marilyn Monroe is one of many episodes explored in These Precious Few Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie. 50 years after JFK's death, Andersen wants to answer the question of whether the glamorous presidential couple really loved each other. And he provides some pointers for this. Jackie is said to have pleaded with her husband not to be separated from him in the event of a nuclear weapon attack. Appropriate preparations were made at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. "Please don't send me anywhere if anything happens. We'll all stay here with you," Andersen quotes. "I want to die with you, and so do the children - rather than live without you."
