VAUGHN MEADER JOHN F. KENNEDY
His Presidential Experience It was more a characterization than an impression. I didn't buffoon it. It was authentic and responding to the news and social events as [much as to] the President.
The White House Response I heard that Arthur Schlesinger heard a press conference I was doing on the radio and thought it was J.F.K. He panicked, and after that the White House was a little cool to what I was doing. But it took off, so J.F.K. portrayed himself as a good-natured, self-deprecating kind of guy. He put up a good front...[But] Jackie really...