"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much..."
Jacqueline Kennedy

Here is a couple who had good chemistry between them. Their relationship was severely tested by their high-profile lifestyle and his weakness for an unending series of beautiful women vying for presidential attention. Yet they remained united in marriage, remained together as a family, till death finally did them apart.

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier first met John Fitzgerald Kennedy when he was a young senator from Massachusetts and she was working as an Inquiring Camera Girl for the Washington Times-Herald, roving the city with her camera to capture citizens' reactions to issues of the day. They hit it off immediately, thanks to the pull of Vasya kuta - magnetic attraction - in subtest 8, and got married in September, 1953.

The Marriage Test shows excellent friendship between this couple. Note the Friend-Friend disposition and maximum points for subtest 7 (Graha Maitram), which makes a world of a difference. This shows the Kennedys made a great team. Whatever their differences, they were able to work it out, or strike some middle ground, naturally out of a spirit of mutual affection and admiration. It's the main reason why they were able to survive the high-profile pressures. Contrast this with the other given example of the royal couple, who also had immediate attraction (Vasya kuta) going for them, but not innate friendship, and thus failed to last the long haul!.

Jacqueline was a pillar of support for her husband. During his convalescence from major back surgery in 1955, she encouraged him in writing Profiles in Courage, a study of principled political decision-making which he dedicated to her. The book won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize, and she bore him their first child, Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, the same year.

Jacqueline was also a significant factor behind her husband's rise to high office. In January, 1960 JFK announced his candidacy for the Presidency, launching 11 months of cross-country campaigning. A few weeks into the campaign, Jacqueline became pregnant and her doctors instructed her to remain at home. There she answered campaign mail, taped TV commercials, gave interviews and wrote "Campaign Wife", a syndicated column carried across the nation. She celebrated her husband's election victory by delivering a son, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr.

Even if it dawned upon the world later on that the Kennedys had a marriage that was less than perfect, the couple stuck it out and kept the family together. Despite a certain deficiency in the sexual compatibility department. Note the failure in subtest 5 on Yoni kuta where sexuality is expressed in terms of the animal species corresponding to their nakshatras. There is a reversal of the male-female roles here, a gender bender effect which causes one of the only two failures in their Marriage Test. Could this explain why JFK, despite being married to the most admired woman in America, if not the world, had a roving eye for other women and sought sexual gratification outside wedlock?

JFK is alleged to have had affairs with a string of beautiful women, which included Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Angie Dickinson, Jayne Mansfield, Lee Remick, and even Jacqueline's sister, Lee. It is said that Jacqueline knew about his philandering ways, but she feigned ignorance to avoid confronting her husband and the other women in his life. She never displayed any vindictiveness towards her husband in public. In response to an interviewer's question on her husband's playboy image, Jacqueline reportedly answered: "I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives." That was the closest she ever came to discussing her husband's sins in public.

The deficiency in Yoni kuta combined with the other failure in subtest 3 (Mahendra) on progeny may also partly explain the loss of issues the couple suffered. She had a miscarriage in 1955 and a still-born daughter in 1956. Another son, Patrick, born prematurely in 1963, died within two days.

To the role of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy brought beauty, intelligence and cultivated taste. Her interest in the arts inspired an attention to culture never before evident at a national level. She devoted much time and study to making the White House a museum of American history and decorative arts as well as a family residence of elegance and charm. But she defined her major role as "to take care of the President" and added that "if you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much." She lived by her maxims and fiercely protected her children from the limelight associated with the political office of their father.

Only death separated them. The Kennedy marriage ended in November, 1963 when JFK was shot dead by an assassin while sitting right by her side in the back of a moving car in Dallas.