My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy.

First edition of Evelyn Lincoln's My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy; warmly inscribed by her

My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy.

LINCOLN, Evelyn. [John F. Kennedy].

$275.00

Item Number: 137253

New York: David McKay Company, Inc, 1965.

First edition of John F. Kennedy’s personal secretary, Evelyn Lincoln’s White House memoir. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, “To Gareth L. Pawlowski with my warmest regards and very best wishes Evelyn Lincoln July 14, 1969.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Adelson and Eichinger.

Evelyn Maurine Norton Lincoln served as the personal secretary to John F. Kennedy from his election to the United States Senate in 1953 until his 1963 assassination. Lincoln had always aimed to work on Capitol Hill for a future president, and she achieved this ambition in 1953 by becoming personal secretary to the newly-elected senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy. She proved suitable for the job, and remained close to the president up to the day of his assassination in Dallas, when she was traveling in the same motorcade. She made it a point to visit Kennedy's grave at Arlington National Cemetery every year afterward on the anniversary of his death.

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