{"id":2472,"date":"1912-01-25T03:44:58","date_gmt":"1912-01-25T07:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2013-04-01T13:34:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T17:34:57","slug":"charles-bartlett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/charles-bartlett\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Bartlett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Bartlett the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who famously arranged the dinner party where JFK and Jackie first met as adults.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He remained a personal friend of JFK and one of the few Catholics in his inner circle. He was by all accounts aware of JFK&#8217;s philandering and sometimes took part in the procurement of women for Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>Like other journalists in Washington, JFK was particularly adept at cultivating relationships with journalists. Bartlett sometimes accompanied JFK on the campaign trail. Bartlett recalled one incident when JFK was campaigning in West Virginia and lost his voice. Worried about the outcome, JFK wrote a series of notes on cards detailing his discouragement over the outcome and passed them to Bartlett.<\/p>\n<p>JFK and Jackie felt so warmly toward Bartlett and his wife that they were asked to be godparents to John F. Kennedy, Jr.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2477\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/christening.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2477\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2477  \" title=\"christening\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/christening.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/christening.jpg 350w, https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/christening-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The kennedys and the Bartletts at the christening of JFK, Jr. (photo courtesy of washingtonpost.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bartlett was a 1943 graduate of Yale University. After the war, he worked for the Chattanooga Times where his investigations led to the resignation of Harold E. Talbott as Secretary of the Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>[15,xxiv], [wp,charles bartlett]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Bartlett the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who famously arranged the dinner party where JFK and Jackie first met as adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[586,1233,1234,1232,53,7,272,265],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Charles Bartlett - Daily JFK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/charles-bartlett\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Charles Bartlett - Daily JFK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Charles Bartlett the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who famously arranged the dinner party where JFK and Jackie first met as adults.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/charles-bartlett\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Daily JFK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"1912-01-25T07:44:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-04-01T17:34:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/friends.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Skip\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Skip\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/charles-bartlett\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/charles-bartlett\/\",\"name\":\"Charles Bartlett - Daily JFK\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/charles-bartlett\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/charles-bartlett\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/friends.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"1912-01-25T07:44:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-04-01T17:34:57+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b412939d9fb512d90af0858637b91262\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/charles-bartlett\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/charles-bartlett\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/charles-bartlett\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/friends.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/friends.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":200},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/charles-bartlett\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Charles Bartlett\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/\",\"name\":\"Daily JFK\",\"description\":\"The Life of John F. 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