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In background notes to Madeline at the White House by John Bemelmans Marciano, we discover the grandfather of Mr. Marciano, Ludwig Bemelmans, the creator of the Madeline series, had a friendship with the former First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy. In a series of letters in 1961 and 1962, inquiries were made about the possibility of a…