She talks in her most sedate voice, attempting to alleviate out fears, soothe our anxiety. She knows that if we are to survive watching this war from a distance, as spectators, we do not have the privilege of indignation or anxiety.

Nayomi Munaweera
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She talks in her most sedate voice, attempting to alleviate out fears, soothe our anxiety. This quote from a letter from John F. Kennedy’s wife, Jackie, revealed the lengths she would go to in order to protect the children from her husband's political decisions. In a time when people were still struggling to understand what was happening in Vietnam and Richard Nixon was attempting to take America into war, Mrs. Kennedy understood that not everyone wanted to follow her husband into war and that they needed reassurances that he was making the right choices.

Source: Island Of A Thousand Mirrors

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