American Lady : The Life of Susan Mary Alsop (9781101601167) (28 page)

sense of responsibility, 150

social skills of, 9, 66

social success of, 66–68, 74–75, 171–72

in Texas, 161–62

at Venetian balls, 81–83, 174

in Vietnam, 141–43

on Vietnam War policy, 133, 142–43

Vogue
job of, 11–12

wartime journey to Paris, 20–21

as Washington hostess, 122–23, 138, 147, 156–57, 172–75, 180–81, 184, 186, 191

in Washington social elite, 126–27, 165

Washington 1949 visit of, 65–68

Watergate apartment of, 152–53

on White House art committee, 121

writings of

for
Architectural Digest
, 179–80, 185, 190

The Congress Dances
, 177–79

Lady Sackville
, 162–65, 168, 172

Letters to Marietta
, 155–57, 159–62

Yankees at the Court
, 176–77

youthful friendships of, 9–11-

Ambassadors, The
(James), 64

American Red Cross, 24

Anti-Americanism

in France, 91–92

of Nancy Mitford, 75–76

Appeasement policy, 39

Architectural Digest
, 179–80, 185, 190

Aragon, Louis, 4

Aron, Raymond, 67, 91, 95

Astor, Brooke, 156, 172, 175

Astor, John Jacob, 2

Astor, Sir John Jacob “Jakie,” 50

Astor, William Waldorf, 163

Astor family, connection to Jays, 2

Atget, Eugène, 73

Attlee, Clement, 41

Auchincloss, Louis, 108

Auriol, Vincent, 67

Austen, Jane, 68

Bacon, Katharine “Kate,” 145, 182

Bacon, Katharine “Kitty,” 145

Bagration, Princess Catherine, 178

Baldwin, Stanley, 38

Balenciaga, Cristobal, 42

Bardot, Brigitte, 94

Bassiano, Princess, 81

Bayard family, connection to Jays, 2

Beaton, Cecil, 82, 192

Beaumarchais, Jacques de, 176–77

Beaumarchais, Marie-Alice de, 107, 176–77

Beevor, Antony, 186

Beistegui, Charlie de, 50, 78, 81, 173

Bellenger, Sylvain, 190

Bérard, Christian, 44, 67

Berlin, Aline, Lady, 107, 165

Berlin, Sir Isaiah, 49, 86, 107, 108, 123, 165

Bernier, Olivier, 175–76

Berry, Pamela, Lady Hartwell, 52

Bevin, Ernest, 41, 45, 48, 51

Bidault, Georges, 93

Bissell, Richard “Dick,” 126

Blair, William McCormick “Bill,” 11, 192

Blake, Robert “Bob” and Sylvia, 190

Blessing, The
(Mitford), 72–73, 75–76

Bloomingdale, Donald, 66

Blueberry Ledge (Northeast Harbor, Maine), 104, 141, 170, 175–76, 182, 190, 191,192

Bohlen, Avis, 78, 123, 129, 137

Bohlen, Avis (daughter of above-mentioned), 186

Bohlen, Charles “Chip,” 29, 77, 78, 92, 123, 126

Bonaparte, Pauline, 40

Bordeaux-Groult, Elise, née Duggan, 9, 97, 100, 114, 150–51

Bordeaux-Groult family, 107

Boudin, Stéphane, 121

Bourdet, Denise and Edouard, 50

Bousquet, Marie-Louise, 41

Bowra, Sir Maurice, 122

Braden, Thomas “Tom,” 140

Bradlee, Benjamin “Ben,” 127

Brandon, Henry, 156

Breese, William, 10

Brezhnev, Leonid, 149

Brinkley, Susan, 181

Brown, Rob, 191

Brown, Tina, 172

Bruce, Alexandra “Sasha,” 179, 184

Bruce, David, 77–78, 127, 156, 159, 160

Bruce, Evangeline “Vangie,” 78, 122, 156, 175, 179, 191

Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 138, 168

Buchwald, Art, 143–44

Buell, Mary, 176

Bullitt, William, 22, 26

Bundy, McGeorge, 124, 129, 134

Bunker, Ellsworth, 134

Bush, George H.W., 184

Byrne, Jimmy, 10

Byrnes, James, 45

Cabot, Mabel “Muffie” Brandon, 156, 190

Cabrol, Fred and Marguerite “Daisy,” 50

Cachin, Marcel, 41

Caffery, Jefferson, 24, 55, 66

Camus, Albert, 67

Capote, Truman, 138

Caputo, Bruce, 167

Carlisle, Kitty, 159

Carter, Jimmy, 165–66, 167

Castellane, Boni de, 67

Castellane, Diane de, 100

Castlereagh, Lord Robert Stewart, 178

Catto, Henry, 172, 183

Cecil, Lord David, 123

CGT union, 55

Chaffee, Kevin, 190

Chamberlain, Neville, 38, 39

Charles, Marion Oates “Oatsie,” 175

Charmley, John, 174

Chavchavadzé, Princess Elisabeth, 82

Chennault, General Claire Lee, 29, 113, 149

China

Alsops’ trip to, 149

détente with, 148

Churchill, Randolph, 168

Churchill, Winston, 16, 35, 38-40, 45, 48–49, 51, 93

Churchill, Winston (grandson of above-mentioned), 168

Clark, Miss, 62–63

Clifford, Clark, 130

Clinton, Hillary, 185–86

Coca-Cola, as focus of anti-Americanism, 91

Cocteau, Jean, 41, 44, 45, 48, 81

Colloredo-Mansfeld, Fritz, 25

Congress Dances, The
(S. .M.Alsop), 177–79

Congress of Vienna, 177–78

Constant, Benjamin, 104

Cooper, Lady Agnes, née Duff, 36

Cooper, Sir Alfred, 36

Cooper, Artemis, 186

Cooper, Lady Diana, née Manners

as actress, 38

death of Duff, 87, 88, 188

at farewell ball, 56

friendship with Susan Mary, 43, 47, 88, 174

hostess at Paris embassy, 40–42

marital bond of, 37–38, 52

at Saint-Firmin country house, 51, 64, 86–87

and successor at Paris embassy, 73

tolerance of Duff’s adultery, 38, 48

at Venetian ball, 82

in Washington, 122

Cooper, Duff, later Lord Norwich

as ambassador to Paris, 40, 41, 45

correspondence with Susan Mary, 46–47, 49, 52, 53, 62, 63, 67, 70, 71, 79, 102, 108, 168, 174

death of, 87–88, 188

departure from Paris, 56–57

elevation to peerage, 86

family background of, 36

Franco-British alliance promoted by, 36, 39

health of, 85–86

and Louise de Vilmorin, 48, 56–57

love affair with Susan Mary, 45–49, 50–54, 56–57, 64, 69–71, 103

marital bond of, 37–38, 52

Parisian life of, 35–36, 70

and paternity of Billy, 59–62, 89, 188–89

political and diplomatic career of, 36, 38–40, 48

resignation over Munich agreement, 39

at Venetian balls, 82–83, 174

womanizing of, 37–38, 47–48, 52, 54, 70–71

writings of, 36, 49, 85, 86

Cooper, John Sherman, 133

Cooper, Lorraine, 175

Corrigan, Mrs., 50

Coty, René, 97

Coward, Noël, 41

Crile, George, 145, 169

Crile, Katie, 182

Crile, Molly, 182

Cronkite, Walter, 134

Cross, Elliot and Martha, 11

Cuban missile crisis, 123, 131

Cuevas, Marquis de, 82

Cukor, George, 138

Dalí, Salvador, 82

Darlan, Admiral François, 21

Davies, Anna Patten, 12, 14, 51, 79

Davis, Todd, 191

Dayan, General Moshe, 138

De Gaulle, Charles, 25, 28, 35, 40, 67, 98, 127, 144, 184

Deharme, Lise, 41

De la Renta, Oscar, 161

Democratic Convention of 1960, 109

DePuy, General William E., 133

Devonshire, Duke of, 68

Devonshire, Deborah, Duchess of, 82, 122

Dewavrin, André, known as Colonel Passy, 67

Dewey, Thomas E., 65

Dien Bien Phu, 93

Dillon, Douglas, 127, 129, 159

Dior, Christian, 51, 82

Ditchley Park, 49, 53–54, 60, 68

Don’t Tell Alfred
(Mitford), 73–75

Dowd, Maureen, 185–86

Downes, Amanda, 190

Dulles, John Foster, 86–87, 92–93

Dumbarton Ave., Alsop residence at, 116–18

Dunne, Dominick, 190

Du Pont, Ethel, 20

Du Pont, Henry Francis, 121

Du Pont, Pauline Louise, 9

Durfort, Béatrice de, 190

Dylan, Bob, 145

Eden, Sir Anthony, 38, 45, 93, 96

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 21, 26, 87, 91, 92, 96, 111, 114

Eliot, T.S., 21

Elizabeth II, Queen, coronation of, 85–86

European Coal and Steel Community, 87

European Defense Community (EDC), 87, 92

Evans, Kay, 164, 192

Falaise, Maxime de la, 65

Fath, Jacques, 81

Fellowes, Daisy, 41, 82

Ferrer, Mel, 138–39

Fini, Leonor, 82

FitzGerald, Desmond, 12, 14, 15, 17

FitzGerald, Frances “Frankie,” 117, 134, 190

Flanner, Janet, 75, 91, 160

Fleming, Ann, previously Lady Rothermere, 52

Forbes, Malcolm, 172

Ford, Gerald, 165, 166

Fox, Charles James, 36

Foxcroft school, 6

France.
See also
Paris

in Algerian War, 95

anti-Americanism in, 91–92

-British alliance, 35, 39

De Gaulle’s 1958 coming to power, 97–98

economic/political impact of war on, 26–27

and European Defense Community (EDC), 87, 92

in Indochina war, 92–93

strikes of 1947, 54, 55–56

and Suez Crisis, 95–97

Franklin, Benjamin, 1, 177

Fraser, Lady Antonia, 122, 161

Frenay, Henri, 28

French Communist Party, 28, 55, 60, 91

Friendly, Pie, 186, 192

Fritchey, Polly, 168, 175, 188

Frost, David, 166–67

Fulbright, J. William, 133

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 128

Ganay, Anne Marie de, 173

Ganay, Christine de, 165

García Márquez, Gabriel, 141

Georgetown

Joe Alsop’s Dumbarton Ave. house in, 116–18

social elite of, 125–26

Susan Mary’s connections to, 66

Susan Mary’s house in, 170–71

Genet, Jean, 67

Germany

appeasement of Hitler, 39

Berlin airlift, 63

postwar rebuilding of, 45

Getty, Ann, 172

Giles, Sir Frank, 67, 107

Giles, Lady Katherine “Kitty,” 164

Goldman, Guido, 181

Goodman, Benny, 8

Gotlieb, Allan, 172

Gould, Florence, 41

Graham, Katharine “Kay,” 123, 140, 147, 168, 172, 180, 191

Graham, Philip “Phil,” 110, 123, 126

Groton School, 9, 12–13, 104, 118

Haig, Sir Douglas, 49

Harper’s Bazaar
, 42, 66, 77

Harper’s
magazine, 134

Harriman, Averell, 77, 126, 165, 168

Harriman, Pamela Churchill, 165, 168

Harvard University, 13

Heath, Edward “Ted,” 138

Heinz, Teresa, 180

Helms, Richard and Cynthia, 159

Henderson, Sir Nicholas “Nicko,” 172

Hepburn, Audrey, 138–39

Hitler, Adolf, 15, 39

Hoagland, James “Jim,” 172

Ho Chi Minh, 45

Hoover, J. Edgar, 114

Houghton, Maisie, 190

Howar, Barbara, 161–62

Hull, Cordell, 17

Indochina War, 92–93

Irelan, John, 181

Ismay, Lord, 50

James, Henry, 64

Jay, Augustus, 2

Jay, Delancey, 2, 14–15

Jay, Emily (sister), 3, 4–5

Jay, Emily Kane, 2

Jay, John, 1, 176, 177

Jay, Peter Augustus (father), 2–5, 9, 17

Jay, Pierre-Auguste, 1

Jay, Susan Alexander McCook (mother), 51, 61, 63, 79, 80, 105, 156

characterized, 3

death of 169–70

relationship with Susan Mary, 9, 19, 64–65, 106, 146, 169

Jay, Susan Mary.
See
Alsop, Susan Mary

Jay family, 1–2

Jebb, Cynthia, later Lady Gladwyn, 103

Jebb, Gladwyn, later Lord Gladwyn, 93, 106, 108

characterized, 102–3

love affair with Susan Mary, 101–4, 107

Johnson, Lady Bird, 130, 180

Johnson, Lyndon

Kennedy people in administration of, 129

vice presidential nomination of, 110

Vietnam policy of, 131–32, 134

Jordan, Dorothea, 36

Juin, General Alphonse, 92

Katzenbach, Nicholas, 124–25

Keats, John, 64

Kennedy, David, 111

Kennedy, Ethel, 111, 124, 180

Kennedy, Jacqueline “Jackie,” 111, 120–22, 129, 161, 172, 184

Kennedy, John F.

on Algeria, 95

assassination of, 128–29, 161

at Dumbarton Ave. dinner parties, 122–23

friendship with Joe Alsop, 112

inauguration of, 119

inauguration-night visit to Joe Alsop, 119–20

Joe Alsop’s support for, 110, 111–12

nomination for presidency, 109–10

and press, 129

and vice presidential nomination, 110

Kennedy, Robert “Bobby,” 109, 124, 125, 129, 133, 134

Kent, Princess Michael of, 186

KGB trap, Joe Alsop in, 114, 144

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergueïevitch, 101, 105, 127, 149

Kidder, Dorothy “Dottie,” née Robinson, 9, 100

Kimbrough, Emily, 159–60

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 125, 134

Kipling, Rudyard, 163

Kissinger, Henry, 147, 148, 165, 166–67, 178

Kitchener, Horatio Hubert, Lord, 163

Korda, Alexander, 70

Kraft, Joseph, 126–27

Lady Sackville
(S. M. Alsop), 162–65, 168, 172

Lagerfeld, Karl, 174

Laos, Susan Mary’s trip to, 157–59

La Panouse family, 33

La Rochefoucauld, Edmée, Duchess de, 41

La Tour d’Auvergne family, 33

Lehrer, James Charles “Jim,” 192

Le Monde
, 91

Lend-Lease Act, 16

Le Nôtre, André, 33

Letters to Marietta
(S. M. Alsop), 155–157, 159–162

Lewinsky, Monica, 190

L’Hum
a
nité
, 91–92

Library Review
, 161

Life
magazine, 66

Ligne, Prince Antoine de, 47

Lincoln, Abraham, 125

Lindbergh, Charles A., 16

Lippman, Walter, 67, 107, 128, 180

Livingston family, connection to Jays, 2

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 67

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 148, 185