Stevenson was also the first woman to be appointed to the board of directors of the National Gallery of Art in Washington , D.C. , and the first woman to become the chairman of that board . Along with local art enthusiasts Owen Day and Sam Cantey III , Stephenson assembled '' An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy '' which decorated the suite in the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth , Texas , occupied by United States President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy on the night before his assassination on November 22 , 1963
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