What Makes a Marriage Last by Marlo Thomas

Author:Marlo Thomas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2020-03-23T00:00:00+00:00

—“Coming Out of the Dark”

Jesse and Jacqueline Jackson

MARRIED IN 1962

“He can never, never, never call me a name. That’s disrespectful. When I call him names, that’s not disrespect, because he knows all of the names I’m calling him are accurate.”

November in Chicago. We should have remembered—after all, we lived there for ten years. But somehow we forgot.

It was just after dawn on a cold morning in New York, and we had a 1:30 p.m. appointment with the Reverend Jesse and Jacqueline Jackson at their Rainbow/PUSH offices in Chicago. We’d planned well, arriving at La Guardia Airport at 8:30 a.m. for a 9:30 departure. But the Windy City had other plans: delay after delay after delay. Three hours later, we wondered whether we’d ever get out or should we just go home. But this was to be one of our last interviews. “We’re on the ten-yard line,” Phil kept saying. So we stuck it out. We finally took off at 3:30 p.m.—a mere seven hours after we’d gotten to the airport.

It was a bitter night in Chicago—11 degrees and windy. We arrived at the Jacksons’ office at 7:30 p.m. They were kind enough to have waited, so we had a warm reunion. Phil and Jesse were old friends from the Donahue days (Jesse appeared on Phil’s show more than twenty times), and the years just melted away. Jackie introduced us to their staff and two of their children—daughter Santita and son Jonathan—and filled us in about the progress of their other children, Jesse Jr., Yusef, and Jackie Jr.

Greenville, South Carolina; December 31, 1962

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