Questioning Jackie Kennedy

Christopher Hitchens, ever the lovable cynic, seems to think less of the Mrs. Kennedy than everybody else:

If the subject were being a major player in establishing the popular reputation of the Kennedy administration, that would be an entirely different story. With amazingly professional velocity, she seized control of the image-making process and soon had an entire cadre of historians and super-journos honing and burnishing the script. And there again, as I revisit it, comes that weird feeling that the taste and style pressure were being exerted very slightly downward.

(Video: the famous White House tour.)