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INSCRIBED IN A COPY OF JOHN F. KENNEDYS PROFILES IN COURAGE
HE CALLED HER MRS. KENNEDY.
SHE CALLED HIM MR. HILL.
F or four years, from the election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in November 1960 until after the election of Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Clint Hill was the Secret Service agent assigned to guard the glamorous and intensely private Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. During those four years, he went from being a reluctant guardian to a fiercely loyal watchdog and, in many ways, her closest friend.
Now, looking back fifty years, Clint Hill tells his story for the first time, offering a tender, enthralling, and tragic portrayal of how a Secret Service agent who started life in a North Dakota orphanage became the most trusted man in the life of the First Lady who captivated first the nation and then the world.
When he was initially assigned to the new First Lady, Agent Hill envisioned tea parties and gray-haired matrons. But as soon as he met her, he was swept up in the whirlwind of her beauty, her grace, her intelligence, her coy humor, her magnificent composure, and her extraordinary spirit.
From the start, the job was like no other, and Clint was by her side through the early days of JFKs presidency; the birth of sons John and Patrick and Patricks sudden death; Kennedy-family holidays in Hyannis Port and Palm Beach; Jackies trips to Europe, Asia, and South America; Jackies intriguing meetings with men like Aristotle Onassis, Gianni Agnelli, and Andr Malraux; the dark days of the year that followed the assassination to the farewell party she threw for Clint when he left her protective detail after four years. All she wanted was the one thing he could not give her: a private life for her and her children.
Filled with unforgettable details, startling revelations, and sparkling, intimate moments, this is the once-in-a-lifetime story of a man doing the most exciting job in the world, with a woman all the world loved, and the tragedy that ended it all too soona tragedy that haunted him for fifty years.
CLINT HILL is a former United States Secret Service agent who was in the presidential motorcade during the John F. Kennedy assassination. Hill remained assigned to Mrs. Kennedy and the children until after the 1964 presidential election. He was then assigned to President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House. In 1967, when Johnson was still in office, he became the Special Agent in Charge (SAIC) of presidential protection. When Richard Nixon came into office, he moved over to be the SAIC of the vice presidential protective division. In 1972, Hill was promoted to the position of assistant director of the Secret Service, responsible for all protective forces. He retired in 1975.
LISA McCUBBIN is an award-winning journalist who has been a television news anchor and reporter, hosted her own radio show, and spent more than five years in the Middle East as a freelance writer. She is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Kennedy Detail . Visit her at www.lisamccubbin.com .
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Copyright 2012 by Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hill, Clint.
Mrs. Kennedy and me / Clint Hill; with Lisa McCubbin.First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
p. cm.
1. Hill, Clint. 2. Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 19291994Friends and associates.
3. Presidents spousesProtectionUnited States. 4. United States. Secret ServiceOfficials and employeesBiography. I. McCubbin, Lisa. II. Title.
E843.K4H47 2012
973.922092dc23
2011051017
ISBN 978-1-4516-4844-7
ISBN 978-1-4516-4847-8 (eBook)
This book is dedicated to the men and women of the U.S. Secret Service, both past and present, who have continued to steadfastly provide protection for the leadership of this great country as well as its financial interests. Your unwavering and selfless dedication to duty set an example for all to follow. I am proud but humble to have served among your ranks.
And to Caroline Kennedy, known as Lyric to the agents and Buttons to your father. I sincerely hope that many of the stories in this book bring back fond memories of your years in the White House. Your father adored you and John, and as you well know, your mother was extraordinarya lady in every sense of the word.
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1960
Meeting Mrs. Kennedy
I t was with great trepidation that I approached 3307 N Street in Georgetown on November 11, 1960. I was about to meet the wife of the newly elected president of the United States, who I had just been assigned to protect, and I wasnt looking forward to it at all. Being on the First Ladys Secret Service detail was the last place I wanted to be. Looking back, Im quite sure that Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was filled with even more anxiety about our meeting than I was. Neither of us had much choice in the matter. She could refuse to accept meas she had done with the first agent assigned to herbut if I rejected the assignment, it would be the end of my career.
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