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57. ALBERTO VARGAS (1896–1982) was a Peruvian-born painter who created pinups of beautiful women, both nude and clothed, which appeared in Esquire and Playboy.
58. GEORGE PETTY (1894–1975) painted female subjects in poses similar to those of Vargas.
59. ALEKSEI ADZHUBEI (1924–1993) was Khrushchev's son-in-law and editor of Izvestia. JFK received him in November 1961 at Hyannis Port for an interview that was published in both of their countries.
60. Mrs. Kennedy presumably refers to the daughter-in-law who accompanied the Khrushchevs to Vienna.
61. RADA KHRUSHCHEVA ADZHUBEI (1929– ).
62. ANATOLY DOBRYNIN (1919–2010), a lifelong professional diplomat, came to Washington as Soviet ambassador in 1962.
63. Walton called on Soviet officials in Moscow on a trip arranged before the President's death to meet Soviet artists.
64. Social secretary Letitia Baldrige.
65. After the two leaders' first day of talks, the Kennedys and Khrushchevs were feted with a dinner and performance at Schönbrunn Palace.
66. Rose Kennedy, who came to Vienna.
67. In his memoirs, Khrushchev recalled, "Obviously she was quick of tongue or, as the Ukrainians say, she had a sharp tongue in her head. . . . Don't mix it up with her; she'll cut you down to size."
68. As Khrushchev loved to boast, the Soviet Union's space program in 1961 was ahead of America's.
69. ANDREI GROMYKO (1909–1989), the severe Soviet foreign minister, fouled his relationship with JFK in October 1962 by denying to his face in the Oval Office that the Soviets had placed missiles in Cuba.
70. This was in October 1961, during a conversation in the White House family quarters, in which JFK deflected Gromyko's bargaining attempts on West Berlin by saying, "You're offering to trade us an apple for an orchard. We don't do that in this country."
71. RACHEL "BUNNY" MELLON (1910–), a pharmaceuticals heiress and second wife of the philanthropist and arts patron Paul Mellon (1907–1999), was Jacqueline's close friend. Mellon served on her Fine Arts Committee and advised her on the restoration, the remaking of the White House gardens—she and JFK collaborated on the transformation of the Rose Garden into a tree-edged setting for outdoor ceremonies—and, ultimately, President Kennedy's Arlington gravesite.
72. The British prime minister made his first White House visit to Kennedy in April 1961.
73. DAVID ORMSBY-GORE (1918–1985) was British ambassador to Washington during the Kennedy years. A descendant of the Tory hero and British prime minister Lord Salisbury (1830–1903), he had known JFK since before World War II, when Joseph Kennedy served in prewar London. Ormsby-Gore was related by marriage to both Kennedy and Macmillan. As a Conservative member of Parliament, Ormsby-Gore had sporadically discussed disarmament with JFK throughout the 1950s. Both he and Macmillan pushed the President to fight hard for a comprehensive test ban treaty that would reduce the harshness of the Cold War arms race. (After his father's death in 1964, Ormsby-Gore became Lord Harlech.)
74. In October 1963, suffering from a prostate ailment, Macmillan resigned. His defense minister, John Profumo, had recently been embroiled in a sex and espionage scandal that tarnished the Macmillan government's reputation. Friends speculated that the ordeal might have led to Macmillan's malady, or that he was grateful to use the excuse of ill health to resign a job that had abruptly became unpleasant for him.
75. HUGH GAITSKELL (1906–1963) and Harold Wilson (1916–1995) were leaders of the Labour party opposition to Macmillan.
76. During Mrs. Kennedy's official visit to India, accompanied by her sister, in March 1962.
77. WARREN HASTINGS (1732–1818) was Britain's first governor-general of India. Charles James Fox (1749–1806) was a Whig political leader and the scourge of King George III, whom he considered a tyrant, which led Fox to support the American