Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy CBS News analyst and historian Douglas Brinkley appeared on CBS's "Early Show" with co-anchor Erica Hill on Monday revealing some of Jackie Kennedy's thoughts on Martin Luther King, Jr. and former president Lyndon B. Johnson. There's a new book of newly-released interviews with Jackie Kennedy and it reveals some things many people may not be aware of. The book's entitled, "Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy". The book includes a series of interviews given by former Kennedy aide Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. shortly after her husband's assassination on November 22, 1963. She spoke of her husband's reading habits to the botched Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba.
In one of her interviews, she said that Martin Luther King, Jr. was "terrible", "tricky", and "a phony." Jackie Kennedy also scorned the notion of Lyndon Johnson succeeding her husband in office. John Kennedy chose then Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson as the vice presidential candidate because Kennedy felt he needed Johnson to win Texas in order to win the presidential election in 1960. Johnson was Kennedy's political rival. Jackie told Schlessinger in the 1964 interviews that her husband often fretted over a Johnson presidency. Jackie Kennedy said her husband told her could she imagine what this country would be like if Johnson was president? Bobby told Jackie that he had discussions with JFK to name someone else in the 1968 presidential ticket. As it turned out, Johnson succeeded Kennedy in 1963 and won the 1964 election in a landslide for a full term. Johnson declined to run again in 1968.
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