John F. Kennedy Presidential Library releases personal papers of Jacqueline Kennedy

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum has made public some of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy's personal papers, including notes from her televised White House tour 50 years ago.

According to the Associated Press, the library on Monday released the first part of a collection her children donated to the library.

The records range from Kennedy's efforts to restore the state rooms of the White House to notes detailing changes to the CBS script for a televised Feb. 14, 1962 tour she gave of the presidential mansion in central Washington D.C.

They illustrate her efforts to restore the White House in a manner that preserved the nation's history.

"These new documents demonstrate her work as first lady, her legendary attention to detail and the incredible range of her understanding of art, history and public diplomacy," ABC News quoted a statement by Tom Putnam, the director of the Kennedy library, as saying.

"She was a very savvy person and that's what these papers show," Putnam said, according to Reuters.

The collection includes a tentative itinerary for the first lady's June 1961 trip to Paris with her husband, detailed down to 10-minute increments, according to the AP.

In the schedule, she includes plans "to spend time with French President Charles de Gaulle’s wife, dine at Versailles, attend the ballet and perhaps even meet with the media."

"Press tea for 25 women reporters (?)" the schedule for one Paris afternoon reads.

The first lady, who was 31 when she moved into the White House, decided that as a national symbol it needed to be restored in a way that reflected its historical and cultural significance to the country.

ABC News cites an interview with Hugh Sidey of Life magazine in September of that year, in which Kennedy said: "All these people come to see the White House, and they see practically nothing that dates back before 1948. Everything in the White House must have a reason for being there. It would be sacrilege merely to 'redecorate' it — a word I hate. It must be restored — and that has nothing to do with decoration. That is a question of scholarship."

However the collection also reveals the hands-on, would-be interior designer within: along with fabric samples, the AP reported, were sketches Kennedy drew that led to the curtain design for the Oval Room.

In January, the library released the final hours of President John F. Kennedy's secret tapes.

(GlobalPost reports: JFK library releases the last of Kennedy's secret tapes)

And in early February, a tell-all memoir written by an alleged former teen mistress of John F, Kennedy, Mimi Alford, was released.

(GlobalPost reports: John F. Kennedy's teen mistress says the president pressured her to perform sex acts on others)

It described, among other things, how she lost her virginity to Kennedy in 1962 and performing oral sex on an aide at the president’s request as he watched