Abstract
When John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected as the President in 1960, he was the youngest President in the history of the United States. Deciding to bring a new style, a new look and a new vitality to the White House, he had a major asset: his wife. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was only thirty-one, but she was profoundly influenced by the American taste. Behind the shy and smiling First Lady was a determined woman, with a strong sense of art and history. Jacqueline Kennedy knew Washington DC very well. By 1960, she had already lived there for eighteen years. Her family had a house in Merrywood, Virginia, and she had lived in Washington as a photographer and a columnist ? the "Inquiring Camera Girl? ? for the Washington Times-Herald.
