In an article titled "The Beguiling, Bearish Bouvier"that appeared in Town & Country Magazine, the article's author, Anne Black Montgomery writes the following:
" One of the most enthusiastic of the early American Bouvier breeders was the late Julius Bliss of New York. After disbanding his highly successful stable of hunters and jumpers, Mr. Bliss turned his considerable talents and energy to importing, breeding and promoting Bouviers des Flandres. His son, Donald Bliss, recalls the fate of one of the pups from the first litter. "My father and Jack Bouvier were both on the New York Stock Exchange. When my father mentioned that we had Bouvs, Jack had to have one of the pups for his daughters. That puppy was Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis' first dog."
Unfortunately, Mrs. Onassis was not yet a trend setter and, despite the herculean efforts of such aficionados as the Louis de Rochemonts of New York, Evert van de Pol of San Francisco, George Young of Darien, Connecticut, and the feisty young Belgian breeder, Edmee Bowles, among others, the breed languished in relative obscurity for several decades more. Observes Donald Bliss' brother, Philip J. Bliss, "Although they were remarkable dogs, Bouviers were virtually unknown in those days.""