John F. Kennedy, bookwork and 'doting father'

I'm having something of a Vanity Fair moment reading this article on the Jacqueline Kennedy audio tapes, which were originally recorded in 1964 with historian Arthur Schlesinger. On the Cuban Missile Crisis: "Please don't send me anywhere. If anything happens, we're all going to stay right here with you...Please, then I just want to be on the lawn when it happens -- you know -- but I just want to be with you, and I want to die with you, and the children do too -- than live without you." Some trivial, but embarrassingly interesting, material:

President Kennedy comes across as a doting father who reserved time for his small children even during periods of high stress at the White House. She recalled that the president tried to take a 45-minute nap every day at lunch time, and would change into pajamas like his idol, Winston Churchill. He was a voracious reader who brought books with him into the bathtub, and even tried to read at meals and while doing his tie.

Before coming to the White House, she said, he would kneel on his bed to say prayers. As president, he occasionally slipped into a confession booth in Palm Beach, Fla., "like anyone would," she said, with a Secret Service agent holding a place in line for him and the priest never knowing he'd just had the president in the confessional.

Other quotes, though, are decidedly less frivolous: "Once I asked him -- I think this is rather touching -- if he could have one wish, what would it be? In other words, you know, looking back on his life, and he said, 'I wish I had more good times.'" Take a look at the rest of the article (just don't let the video playing at the top flick over to The View; that show's atrocious).