ficials. John sponsored a labor bill which did a great deal to eliminate criminal practices in unions.Kennedy met his future wife, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, at a Washington, D.C., party shortly after his election to the Senate. Described as a cameo beauty, Jackie was the daughter of a Long Island family. At the time they met, she was a photographer and a pen-and-ink artist for a Washington, D.C., newspaper. They were married on Sept. 12, 1953. Their daughter, Caroline, was born in 1957. Their son, John Fitzgerald, was born on Nov. 25, 1960, 17 days after Kennedy was elected president of the United States. As wife of the president, Jackie became one of the most gracious and most beautiful White House hostesses.Jackie was born on July 28, 1929, at Southampton, Long Island. She attended several private American schools and the Sorbonne, in Paris, France. She was graduated from George Washington University, in Washington, D.C.Kennedy's old back injury still gave him a great deal of pain. Beginning in October 1954 he underwent a series of spinal operations.While he was recuperating in 1955 he decided to write a book he had been contemplating for several years. It was a series of portraits of eight of the most courageous senators in the nation's history. Entitled 'Profiles in Courage', it became a best seller and won Kennedy the 1957 Pulitzer prize for biography.During his campaign for the 1960 Democratic nomination, Kennedy often began his speeches with this remark: "Thanks for not voting for me in 1956." That was the year he barely missed being nominated vice-president on the Democratic ticket. Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, who won the nomination, and Adlai E. Stevenson, the presidential nominee, were defeated in the election. Had Kennedy won the nomination and been defeated in the election, his chances for the presidency might have been lost.Following the 1956 national election, Kennedy began an elaborate campaign for the 1960 Democra...
