portrait of kennedy for the truman library and she had been hired because she was known as the fastest brush in the east. the idea was she could finish this off in a few hours. she came to palm beach, 1962 christmas, stayed four days, and for the rest of the year, she did nothing but draw and paint and sketch -- >> they couldn't figure him out. >> she thought to find his essence, she had to look -- see him as people saw him on television and newspaper and she clipped all these magazine things. she couldn't stop. she couldn't stop. she admitted she fell a tiny bit in love with him. more than a tiny bit. >> one of the great mysteries of the evolution of his presidency and sudden end of his presidency has to do with vietnam. >> yeah. >> you know, where was he going. what was he thinking? and you can see just not only from your book, but anecdotally it seems he was headed in a different direction than he ended up going.