The Jackie Kennedy tapes: Catty, but won’t change history

For the past few days, “startling” comments by Jackie Kennedy about Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, and Charles DeGaulle — recorded 47 years ago — have leaked out.

Hype alert: The remarks aren’t that shocking — catty, perhaps — and the leaks are part of a calculated rollout for the book, “Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy,” which will be released Wednesday.

“If people are looking for revelations about her, they will not find them,” said Carl Anthony, one of the country’s leading experts on first ladies. “What I think they reveal is an unerring, all-observing eye.”...