JACKIE WRITES A NOTE TO HER SECRETARY CONCERNING THE FRAMING OF A REPRODUCTION OF A THOMAS JEFFERSON LETTER
> enlargeAn autograph note written on official "White House" notepaper. Jackie wrote to her secretary, May: "May - will just give this to JFK from Pierre - but you pay bill get framed - sent to P. Beach." The note is in reference to a Thomas Jefferson facsimile autograph letter dated June 11, 1807, which Press Secretary Pierre Salinger had presented to President Kennedy as a gift. According to the Sotheby's catalog, Salinger presented the letter with the following words: "To the President, Anytime you get mad at the Press, this will remind you that Jefferson got madder." Even though that Jefferson was a reproduction, it sold for a significant amount of money. Jackie's note is a true original.