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"Marina gave up trying to forget Anatoly [an old Russian beau]. In fact, she bought a photograph of President Kennedy... Marina saw a resemblance between the two men ... Lee had seen Anatoly on the night he first met Marina, and if a resemblance truly existed and was marked, he may have observed it for himself. He was, justifiably, jealous of Anatoly. And he was jealous of Kennedy, whether he had seen a resemblance or not. Once Marina said casually: 'He is very attractive—I can't say what he is as President, but, I mean, as a man.' Marina admired Kennedy in his own right—not only as a reminder of Anatoly. The more she saw of him the better she liked him, and it got so she would flip through the pages of every magazine she could lay her hands on, asking:
'Where's Kennedy? Where's Kennedy?' Lee translated everything for her, every article, every caption—about the President, his wife, their children, and the Robert F. Kennedy family ... He seemed nearly as interested in the Kennedys as she was and, if the article was favorable, he seemed to agree with it.
Marina speculated—to herself, not to Lee—about the President as man and lover. Since he looked like Anatoly, she wondered if he kissed like Anatoly. Marina did her best to convince herself that because he had a bad back, he probably wasn't much of a lover. Even so, the words Marina now uses to sum up her feelings toward the President are identical to the words she uses of only two other men in her life until then, Anatoly and Lee. The words are: 'I was in love with him.' Marina had her photograph of President Kennedy and Lee had his of Fidel Castro, which he clipped out of the Soviet magazine Ogonyok and pinned to the living room wall."