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Jackie Kennedy, White House @ 60, Marylin Monroe, Channel @100, Pope Francis, The God Committee, Sylvester Stallone Vivien Leigh & Gone with the Wind
The White House Historical Association
60th Anniversary @ The Met Museum
First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy envisioned a restored White House that conveyed a sense of history through its decorative and fine arts. In 1961, she established the White House Historical Association (WHHA) to support her vision to preserve and share the Executive Mansion’s legacy.Current First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Jackie’s daughter Caroline Kennedy, and Al Roker greeted guests including Genevieve McSweeney Ryan at the WHHA’’s 60th Anniversary Gala which honored its founder at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. During her remarks, Kennedy noted that her mother shared her father, President John F. Kennedy’s belief that the White House should serve as a stage for where America and the world could see the very best of American arts and culture. She also highlighted her mother’s civic accomplishments including her landmark televised tour of the restored White House in 1962. Supported entirely by private resources, the Association’s mission is to assist in the
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Publicist and socialite R. Couri Hay, who knew Ivana Trump for about 40 years, called her death Thursday “the end of a New York era.”
The 73-year-old man-about-town was hosting the opening of the Hamptons Fine Art Fair when he got word that Ivana, 73, had died in her Upper East Side apartment.
He recalled meeting Ivana and her first husband, Donald Trump, when they “ruled New York City real estate circles” in the early 1980s. Hay told the Daily News that Ivana was an equal to The Donald in almost every way, except for being able to work a room, where Hay said Ivana was more gregarious.
Hay was also in Aspen in 1989 when the former Czechoslovakian model confronted actress Marla Maples, with whom Donald Trump was having a fling and would later marry. And when Ivana wed her fourth husband, Rossano Rubicondi, at Mar-a-Lago in 2008, Hay was there.
The nuptials played out in front of a fountain that was flanked by a pair of grandiose staircases.
“She entered to ‘Here Comes the Bride,” Hay said. “He entered to the ‘Rocky,’ theme song, pumping his fists like, ‘I won! I got the prize!'”
Donald Trump stayed in his room watching a golf tournament during the ceremony, but “at some point peeked in,&rdqu
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