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Schlesinger's Sally. While Johnson kept silent about the dispute, old Kennedy partisan Schlesinger sallied into the fray by attacking Manchester at the annual meeting of The American Historical Association. Disclosing that it was he who had urged Jackie to submit to Manchester's interview, Schlesinger said that he had advised her to hold nothing back because she "was making a deposition for the historian of the 21st century." He never imagined, he said, that Manchester would freely use the material. The relationship between husband and wife is a private matter, said Schlesinger, that "is not necessary to the historian writing in her lifetime." Coming from Schlesinger, the observations were particularly odd. Only a year ago, he was defending both his untimely disclosure that Kennedy planned to remove Dean Rusk as Secretary of State and his maudlin scene between J.F.K. and Jackie after the Bay of Pigs debacle—a scene that drew so much criticism in its LIFE appearance that he cut it out of his bestselling history because, he admitted, it "sounded sob-sisterish."
Emotional Strain. Manchester, who last week demanded an apology from yet another critic, Theodore H. White (The Making of a President), for accusing him of breaking his word with the Kennedys, was at week's end recovering and under orders by his physicians to take a vacation. Psychiatrist Dr. Asher L. Baker explained that the author's mental condition was "just reactive to fatigue. Throughout his work on the book he was reliving the assassination.
It's something that puts a person under terrific emotional strain."
In Antigua, Jackie discovered to her sorrow that as a result of the battle of the book she was more than ever fair game for the curious. While swimming one day, she had to stay in the water for 15 minutes eluding photographers until Secret Service agents shooed them away. Shortly afterward, police guards showed up at the rambling Mill Reef Club home of the host, Art Collector Paul Mellon, to keep outsiders away.
"Mrs. Kennedy is irked," said one spokesman. "She has demanded complete privacy"—something that she can probably never have again.