First Ladies & Assassination - pointers to Etiquette.
learn something every day | 24.06.2008 21:24 | Gender | World
When one says "First Lady" one is generally taken to mean the spouse of the president of the USA. All presidents of that state are "POTUS" as they are called by their bodyguards have been married with one notable exception, James Buchanan the 15th president who shared his bed at the White House with Senator (& previous vice President) James William Rufus deVane King. Their relationship described by Buchanan as a "communion" led to unkind and homophobic remarks being made at that time and indeed provide amateur etymologists with the first such instances of such insults.
This article though will focus on the first lady of France who this afternoon ran away from her husband Sarkozy when she learnt he might take a bullet. It is very important to remain calm, dignified, elegant, confident and unflapped at moments like this. (Do not try and run away in heels like that).
This article though will focus on the first lady of France who this afternoon ran away from her husband Sarkozy when she learnt he might take a bullet. It is very important to remain calm, dignified, elegant, confident and unflapped at moments like this. (Do not try and run away in heels like that).
In the Israeli press English pages of Haarezt we may read :-
"An Israeli Border Policeman on the perimeter of a farewell airport ceremony for French President Nicolas Sarkozy apparently shot himself on Tuesday in a incident that did not endanger the visiting leader, Israel Radio said. The shooting occurred while a military band was playing and went unnoticed by Sarkozy and Israeli leaders at the ceremony. Dark-suited men then quickly ushered Sarkozy and his wife up the stairs of their plane. In a panic, Sarkozy's wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, rushed up the stairs ahead of her husband.
At the same time, security guards, with their guns drawn, rushed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Shimon Peres toward their cars. The incident was over within minutes, and Olmert returned and boarded the plane to inform Sarkozy what had transpired, witnesses said."
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/995777.html
In the British press "Guardian" we may clearly see a photo of Celia Bruni-Sarkozy at the top of the stairs leading to the French presidential jet whilst her husband is still on the tarmac.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/24/france.israelandthepalestinians
Celia Bruni-Sarkozy is of course as well known under both her career and birth name as a model on the Storm agency books as she is known under her marriage name as the tall woman who accompanies Sarkozy everywhere. Her last model contract work before marriage to Sarkozy saw her appear in a television advertisement for the Lancia Musa car. The TV advertisement which was broadcast in Europe in January 2008 pictured her sitting in a car, wearing very little, to a soundtrack which was a cover version fo the 1966 hit "Bang Bang (My Baby shot me down)."
This of course was a ditty written by Sonny Bono for his then wife Cher Bono, who eventually divorced him for battering her and is now known by her first given name only.
Celia Bruni / Celia Bruni-Sarkozy's behaviour today at Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion airport should be commented on and seen in the long tradition of first lady etiquette when a president either gets or is about to get an assassin's bullet. The best example in recent years was that of Mrs Ford (née ) who won aclaim for her calm and repose when Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme (born October 22, 1948) a former member of Charles Manson's "Family", attempted to shoot U.S. President Gerald Ford on September 5th, 1975 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynette_Fromme
The most popular and often watched presidential assassination clip was of course that of JFK whose wife, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier had taken the name Jackie Kennedy when she married him and was latter known as Jackie Onassis and is still recognisable some 12 years after her death as "Jackie O". At the exact moment a bullet or bullets entered the car in which she and her husband were travelling, we may see his head go back, up and into little bits - whilst she began to clamber across the boot of the car. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Onassis
in an orderly and reserved fashion maintaining all dignity.
Mary Todd attended with her husband the Ford Theatre in Washington DC April 14, 1865 to watch the comic play "Our American Cousin". Her husband was Abraham Lincoln. After her marriage to him she had always been known as Mary Lincoln, never Mary Todd Lincoln. When he was shot, she calmly accompanied him across the street to Petersen House, where he died the next morning in her presence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Todd_Lincoln
Lucretia Rudolph took the name Garfied when she married James A. Garfield who was assassinated whilst serving term as the 20th POTUS in Washington, DC on July 2, 1881. President James A. Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at 9:30 a.m., less than four months after taking office and died eleven weeks later on September 19, 1881,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretia_Garfield
Ida Saxton McKinley (June 8, 1847 – May 26, 1907), as wife of William McKinley, was First Lady of the United States from 1897 to 1901 when her husband was shot by the anarchist in Leon Czolgosz in Buffallo New York. Czolgosz confessed everything that night, stating "I killed President McKinley because I done my duty. I didn't believe one man should have so much service and another man should have none." McKinley was though to survive a little longer. On Saturday the 7th, his wife who had not been present at the shooting but had been with him that morning, was allowed to see him. He died in her presence 6 days later.
details of the 4 assassinations of POTUS, the 12 confirmed assassination attempts & 2 suspected or rumoured assassination attempts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Presidential_assassination_attempts
more on William King the only man known to have slept with a president of the USA's in a White House bed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._King
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There have been also been numerous assassination attempts on French Presidents. But in this century the main case of interest is that of the foiled attempt on Charles De Gaulle by Jean Bastien-Thiry (October 19, 1927 – March 11, 1963) and the OAS group who wanted to prevent Algerian independence and thought killing De Gaulle in the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart on August 22, 1962 would do this. The idea of shooting up De Gaulle proved inspiration to Frederick Forsyth who promptly began work on his classic "The Day of the Jackal" a spiffing movie which starred noted actor Edward Fox OBE as himself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bastien-Thiry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Jackal
"An Israeli Border Policeman on the perimeter of a farewell airport ceremony for French President Nicolas Sarkozy apparently shot himself on Tuesday in a incident that did not endanger the visiting leader, Israel Radio said. The shooting occurred while a military band was playing and went unnoticed by Sarkozy and Israeli leaders at the ceremony. Dark-suited men then quickly ushered Sarkozy and his wife up the stairs of their plane. In a panic, Sarkozy's wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, rushed up the stairs ahead of her husband.
At the same time, security guards, with their guns drawn, rushed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Shimon Peres toward their cars. The incident was over within minutes, and Olmert returned and boarded the plane to inform Sarkozy what had transpired, witnesses said."
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/995777.html In the British press "Guardian" we may clearly see a photo of Celia Bruni-Sarkozy at the top of the stairs leading to the French presidential jet whilst her husband is still on the tarmac.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/24/france.israelandthepalestinians Celia Bruni-Sarkozy is of course as well known under both her career and birth name as a model on the Storm agency books as she is known under her marriage name as the tall woman who accompanies Sarkozy everywhere. Her last model contract work before marriage to Sarkozy saw her appear in a television advertisement for the Lancia Musa car. The TV advertisement which was broadcast in Europe in January 2008 pictured her sitting in a car, wearing very little, to a soundtrack which was a cover version fo the 1966 hit "Bang Bang (My Baby shot me down)."
This of course was a ditty written by Sonny Bono for his then wife Cher Bono, who eventually divorced him for battering her and is now known by her first given name only.
Celia Bruni / Celia Bruni-Sarkozy's behaviour today at Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion airport should be commented on and seen in the long tradition of first lady etiquette when a president either gets or is about to get an assassin's bullet. The best example in recent years was that of Mrs Ford (née ) who won aclaim for her calm and repose when Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme (born October 22, 1948) a former member of Charles Manson's "Family", attempted to shoot U.S. President Gerald Ford on September 5th, 1975
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynette_Fromme The most popular and often watched presidential assassination clip was of course that of JFK whose wife, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier had taken the name Jackie Kennedy when she married him and was latter known as Jackie Onassis and is still recognisable some 12 years after her death as "Jackie O". At the exact moment a bullet or bullets entered the car in which she and her husband were travelling, we may see his head go back, up and into little bits - whilst she began to clamber across the boot of the car.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Onassis in an orderly and reserved fashion maintaining all dignity.
Mary Todd attended with her husband the Ford Theatre in Washington DC April 14, 1865 to watch the comic play "Our American Cousin". Her husband was Abraham Lincoln. After her marriage to him she had always been known as Mary Lincoln, never Mary Todd Lincoln. When he was shot, she calmly accompanied him across the street to Petersen House, where he died the next morning in her presence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Todd_Lincoln Lucretia Rudolph took the name Garfied when she married James A. Garfield who was assassinated whilst serving term as the 20th POTUS in Washington, DC on July 2, 1881. President James A. Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at 9:30 a.m., less than four months after taking office and died eleven weeks later on September 19, 1881,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucretia_Garfield Ida Saxton McKinley (June 8, 1847 – May 26, 1907), as wife of William McKinley, was First Lady of the United States from 1897 to 1901 when her husband was shot by the anarchist in Leon Czolgosz in Buffallo New York. Czolgosz confessed everything that night, stating "I killed President McKinley because I done my duty. I didn't believe one man should have so much service and another man should have none." McKinley was though to survive a little longer. On Saturday the 7th, his wife who had not been present at the shooting but had been with him that morning, was allowed to see him. He died in her presence 6 days later.
details of the 4 assassinations of POTUS, the 12 confirmed assassination attempts & 2 suspected or rumoured assassination attempts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Presidential_assassination_attempts more on William King the only man known to have slept with a president of the USA's in a White House bed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._King _ _ _ _ _ __ _ __ _ __ _ __ _ __ _ __ _ __ _ __ _ __ _ __ _ __ _ __ _ __ _ _
There have been also been numerous assassination attempts on French Presidents. But in this century the main case of interest is that of the foiled attempt on Charles De Gaulle by Jean Bastien-Thiry (October 19, 1927 – March 11, 1963) and the OAS group who wanted to prevent Algerian independence and thought killing De Gaulle in the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart on August 22, 1962 would do this. The idea of shooting up De Gaulle proved inspiration to Frederick Forsyth who promptly began work on his classic "The Day of the Jackal" a spiffing movie which starred noted actor Edward Fox OBE as himself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bastien-Thiry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Jackal
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