Editing Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (section)

===Mourning period and later public appearances===
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There'll be great presidents again ... but there will never be another Camelot.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=T1IEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA158 ''An Epilogue''], in ''Life'', Dec 6, 1963, pp. 158–159.</ref>
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On November 29, 1963—a week after her husband's assassination—Kennedy was interviewed in Hyannis Port by [[Theodore H. White]] of ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' magazine.<ref>Spoto, pp. 233–234.</ref> In that session, she compared the Kennedy years in the White House to [[King Arthur]]'s mythical [[Camelot]], commenting that the President often played the title song of [[Lerner and Loewe]]'s musical recording before retreating to bed. She also quoted [[Queen Guinevere]] from the musical, trying to express how the loss felt.<ref>{{cite magazine | magazine = [[Life (magazine)|Life]] |date=December 6, 1963|volume=55|issue=23 |issn=0024-3019|title=For President Kennedy, an Epilogue| author = White, Theodore H.|author-link= Theodore H. White}}</ref> The era of the [[Kennedy administration]] has subsequently been referred to as the "Camelot Era", although historians have later argued that the comparison is not appropriate, with [[Robert Dallek]] stating that Kennedy's "effort to lionize [her husband] must have provided a therapeutic shield against immobilizing grief."<ref>Tomlin, p. 295.</ref>

Kennedy and her children remained in the White House for two weeks following the assassination.<ref name="nyt12071963">{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/12/07/89986491.pdf|title=Mrs. Kennedy is in new home; declines 3-acre Arlington plot|last=Hunter|first=Marjorie|date=December 7, 1963|work=The New York Times|pages=1, 13|access-date=April 13, 2015|url-access=subscription|archive-date=May 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200508020718/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/12/07/89986491.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false|url-status=live}}</ref> Wanting to "do something nice for Jackie", President Johnson offered an [[U.S. Ambassador to France|ambassadorship to France]] to her, aware of her heritage and fondness for the country's culture, but she turned the offer down, as well as follow-up offers of ambassadorships to [[U.S. Ambassador to Mexico|Mexico]] and the [[U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain|United Kingdom]]. At her request, Johnson renamed the [[Florida]] space center the [[John F. Kennedy Space Center]] a week after the assassination. Kennedy later publicly praised Johnson for his kindness to her.<ref>Andersen, pp. 55–56.</ref>

Kennedy spent 1964 in mourning and made few public appearances. In the winter following the assassination, she and the children stayed at [[Averell Harriman]]'s home in Georgetown. On January 14, 1964, Kennedy made a televised appearance from the office of the Attorney General, thanking the public for the "hundreds of thousands of messages" she had received since the assassination, and said she had been sustained by America's affection for her late husband.<ref name=Spoto239 /> She purchased a house for herself and her children in Georgetown but sold it later in 1964 and bought a 15th-floor penthouse apartment for $250,000 at [[1040 Fifth Avenue]] in Manhattan in the hopes of having more privacy.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://abagond.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/1040-fifth-avenue-where-jackie-o-lived/ |title=1040 Fifth Avenue: Where Jackie O. lived |work=Abagond |date=August 27, 2008 |access-date=August 16, 2020 |archive-date=September 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180921115816/https://abagond.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/1040-fifth-avenue-where-jackie-o-lived/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=American Legacy: The Story of John & Caroline Kennedy|author=Heymann, Clemens David|isbn=978-0-7434-9738-1|date=2007|publisher=Atria Books |url=https://archive.org/details/americanlegacyst00heym}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Sweet Caroline: Last Child of Camelot|url=https://archive.org/details/sweetcarolinelas00ande|url-access=registration| author = Andersen, Christopher P. |year=2003|publisher=William Morrow| isbn = 978-0-06-103225-7 }}</ref> During the summer of 1964, Kennedy retreated to [[Salutation (estate)|Salutation]] in [[Glen Cove, Long Island]].<ref name="Aristocracy">{{cite web|url=https://americanaristocracy.com/houses/salutations|website=American Aristocracy|title=Salutation|access-date=April 30, 2025|archive-date=January 20, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250120122129/https://americanaristocracy.com/houses/salutations|url-status=live}}</ref>

In the following years, Kennedy attended selected memorial dedications to her late husband.{{efn|In May 1965, she, Robert and Ted Kennedy joined Queen Elizabeth II at [[Runnymede]], England, where they dedicated the United Kingdom's official memorial to JFK. The memorial included several acres of meadowland given in perpetuity from the UK to the US, near where [[John, King of England|King John]] had signed [[Magna Carta]] in 1215.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h3915.html|title=Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis|work=u-s-history.com|access-date=July 19, 2012|archive-date=July 18, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120718042453/http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h3915.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1967, she attended the christening of the [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] [[aircraft carrier]] {{USS|John F. Kennedy|CV-67}}<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/Za6sMz-bk_g Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140212225443/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za6sMz-bk_g&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|title=May 27, 1967 – Jacqueline, Caroline and John at the christening of the U.S.S. John F. Kennedy| date=January 7, 2013 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za6sMz-bk_g|via=YouTube|access-date=November 15, 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> in Newport News, Virginia, a memorial in Hyannis Port, and a park near [[New Ross]], Ireland. She also attended a private ceremony in Arlington National Cemetery that saw the moving of her husband's coffin, after which he was reinterred so that officials at the cemetery could construct a safer and more stable eternal flame and accommodate the tourists' extensive foot traffic.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jfks-body-moved-to-permanent-gravesite|publisher=HISTORY.com|title=JFK's body moved to permanent gravesite|archive-date=November 17, 2015|access-date=October 31, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117020523/http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jfks-body-moved-to-permanent-gravesite|url-status=live}}</ref>}} She also oversaw the establishment of the [[John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum]], which is the repository for official papers of the Kennedy Administration.<ref>Tracy, p. 180.</ref> Designed by architect [[I.M. Pei]], it is situated next to the [[University of Massachusetts]] campus in Boston.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 7, 2011 |title=AD Classics: JFK Presidential Library / I.M. Pei |url=https://www.archdaily.com/153285/ad-classics-jfk-presidential-library-i-m-pei |access-date=March 2, 2023 |agency=ArchDaily |archive-date=March 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230302105054/https://www.archdaily.com/153285/ad-classics-jfk-presidential-library-i-m-pei |url-status=live }}</ref>

Despite having commissioned [[William Manchester]]'s authorized account of President Kennedy's death, ''[[The Death of a President]]'', Kennedy was subject to significant media attention in 1966–1967 when she and Robert Kennedy tried to block its publication.<ref>Mills, p. 363.</ref><ref>Schlesinger, Vol 2., p. 762.</ref><ref>White, pp. 98–99.</ref> They sued publishers [[Harper & Row]] in December 1966; the suit was settled the following year when Manchester removed passages that detailed President Kennedy's private life.

During the [[Vietnam War]] in November 1967, ''Life'' magazine dubbed Kennedy "America's unofficial roving ambassador" when she and [[David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech|David Ormsby-Gore]], former British ambassador to the United States during the Kennedy administration, traveled to Cambodia, where they visited the religious complex of [[Angkor Wat]] with Chief of State [[Norodom Sihanouk]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.devata.org/2010/01/angkor-wat-dreams-jacqueline-kennedys-1967-visit-to-cambodia/ |title=Jacqueline Kennedy Visits Angkor Wat |work=Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context |date=January 6, 2010 |publisher=Devata.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100324002740/http://www.devata.org/2010/01/angkor-wat-dreams-jacqueline-kennedys-1967-visit-to-cambodia/ |archive-date=March 24, 2010 }} November 1967.</ref><ref name=Alam32>Alam, p. 32.</ref> According to historian [[Milton Osborne]], her visit was "the start of the repair to Cambodian-US relations, which had been at a very low ebb".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/jacqueline-kennedys-charm-offensive|title=Jacqueline Kennedy's charm offensive|date=March 21, 2015|first=Harriet Fitch|last=Little|work=The Phnom Penh Post|archive-date=April 2, 2019|access-date=November 1, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402103907/https://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/jacqueline-kennedys-charm-offensive|url-status=live}}</ref> She also attended the [[funeral services of Martin Luther King Jr.]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]], in April 1968, despite her initial reluctance due to the crowds and reminders of President Kennedy's death.<ref>Leaming (2014), pp. 237–238.</ref>