Editing Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (section)

==Later years (1975–1990s)==
[[File:Reagans with Jackie Kennedy.jpg|thumb|Onassis in 1985 with the president and first lady, [[Ronald Reagan|Ronald]] and [[Nancy Reagan]]]]
[[File:Hillary Rodham Clinton and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.jpg|thumb|right|Onassis with [[Hillary Clinton]] in 1993]]
After the death of her second husband, Onassis returned permanently to the United States, splitting her time between Manhattan, [[Martha's Vineyard]], and the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. In 1975, she became a consulting editor at [[Viking Press]], a position that she held for two years.{{efn|Prior to her publishing employment, she had gained experience by being involved with several posthumous biographies of President Kennedy. The first of these was ''John F. Kennedy, President,'' by [[Hugh Sidey]], which was published the year after his death in 1964. Simon Michael Bessie, Sidey's editor at Atheneum, recalled her as having read galleys and submitted detailed notes on them. Despite this recollection, Sidey did not acknowledge her contribution in the book. The following year, she helped [[Ted Sorensen]] with his book ''Kennedy''. Sorensen told Greg Lawrence that after finishing the "first draft" of his "first big book", he gave Onassis the manuscript since he thought she would be helpful, and she provided him with several comments on the book. Sorensen lauded her assistance in his memoir ''Counselor'', as he wrote that she had "proved to be a superb editor, correcting typographical errors, challenging mistaken assumptions, defending some of her husband's personnel decisions, suggesting useful clarifications, and repeatedly setting the record straight on matters not known to me".<ref>Lawrence, pp. 13–14.</ref>}} 

After almost a decade of avoiding participation in political events, Onassis attended the [[1976 Democratic National Convention]] and stunned the assembled delegates when she appeared in the visitors' gallery.<ref>Sabato, p. 324</ref><ref>Reeves, pp. 124–127.</ref> She resigned from Viking Press in 1977 after [[John Leonard (critic)|John Leonard]] of ''The New York Times'' stated that she held some responsibility for Viking's publication of the [[Jeffrey Archer]] novel ''[[Shall We Tell the President?]]'', set in a fictional future presidency of Ted Kennedy and describing an assassination plot against him.<ref name="carmody19771015">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/15/archives/mrs-onassis-resigns-editing-post-mrs-onassis-resigns-editing-post.html |title=Mrs. Onassis Resigns Editing Post |last=Carmody |first=Deirdre |date=October 15, 1977 |work=The New York Times |access-date=November 28, 2019 |page=1 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=November 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191128023105/https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/15/archives/mrs-onassis-resigns-editing-post-mrs-onassis-resigns-editing-post.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Silverman, pp. 71–72.</ref> Two years later, she appeared alongside her mother-in-law Rose Kennedy at [[Faneuil Hall]] in Boston when Ted Kennedy announced that he was going to challenge incumbent president [[Jimmy Carter]] for the Democratic nomination for president.<ref>Leaming (2014), p. 292.</ref> She participated in the subsequent presidential campaign, which was unsuccessful.<ref>Lawrence, p. 95.</ref>

Following her resignation from Viking Press, Onassis was hired by [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]], where she worked as an associate editor under an old friend, [[John Turner Sargent, Sr.]] Among the books she edited for the company are [[Larry Gonick]]'s ''[[The Cartoon History of the Universe]]'',<ref>Spoto, p. 319.</ref> the English translation of the three volumes of [[Naghib Mahfuz]]'s ''[[Cairo Trilogy]]'' (with Martha Levin),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/findingaids/lilly/InU-Li-VAA1274|title=Hutchins mss., 1972–1999|publisher=Indiana University}}</ref> and autobiographies of ballerina [[Gelsey Kirkland]],<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/fashion/02JACKIE.html|title=Once an Editor, Now the Subject|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 2010|last1=McGee|first1=Celia|archive-date=March 20, 2018|access-date=February 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320172025/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/fashion/02JACKIE.html|url-status=live}}</ref> singer-songwriter [[Carly Simon]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Jackie O.: A Life in Books|url=http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Jacqueline-Kennedys-Literary-Life|publisher=oprah.com|access-date=January 11, 2015}}</ref> and fashion icon [[Diana Vreeland]].<ref name="nytimes.com"/> She also encouraged [[Dorothy West]], her neighbor on Martha's Vineyard and one of the last surviving members of the [[Harlem Renaissance]], to complete the novel ''The Wedding'' (1995), a multi-generational story about race, class, wealth, and power in the U.S.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-07-11 |title=Feminize Your Canon: Dorothy West |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/07/11/feminize-your-canon-dorothy-west/ |access-date=2025-04-16 |website=The Paris Review |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=McGee |first=Celia |date=2008-08-18 |title=House Proud in Historic Enclave |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/18/books/18west.html |access-date=2025-04-16 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=November 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126021314/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/18/books/18west.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The book was later [[The Wedding (miniseries)|adapted as a miniseries]] in 1998, starring [[Halle Berry]] and [[Lynn Whitfield]] and produced by [[Oprah Winfrey]]'s [[Harpo Productions]].<ref>{{Cite web |title="The Wedding" {{!}} UCLA Film & Television Archive |url=https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/la-rebellion/films/wedding |access-date=2025-04-16 |website=www.cinema.ucla.edu |archive-date=February 14, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250214182500/https://cinema.ucla.edu/la-rebellion/films/wedding |url-status=live }}</ref>

In addition to her work as an editor, Onassis participated in cultural and architectural preservation. In the 1970s, she led a historic preservation campaign to save [[Grand Central Terminal]] from demolition and renovate the structure in Manhattan.<ref name="Adler" /> A plaque inside the terminal acknowledges her prominent role in its preservation. In the 1980s, she was a major figure in protests against a planned skyscraper at [[Columbus Circle]] that would have cast large shadows on Central Park;<ref name="Adler">{{cite book|title=The Eloquent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis&nbsp;– A Portrait in Her Own Words|volume=1| author = Adler, Bill |date=April 13, 2004|publisher=HarperCollins| isbn = 978-0-06-073282-0 }}</ref> the project was canceled. A later project proceeded despite protests: a large twin-towered skyscraper, the [[Time Warner Center]], was completed in 2003. Her historic preservation efforts also include her influence in the campaign to save [[Olana State Historic Site|Olana]], the home of [[Frederic Edwin Church]] in upstate New York. She was awarded the Fine Arts Federation medal for her devotion to the cause of historic preservation in New York City.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Schuyler|first=David|title=Frederic Church's Olana on the Hudson: Art, Landscape, and Architecture|publisher=Rizzoli International Publications/The Olana Partnership|year=2018|isbn=978-0-8478-6311-2|location=Hudson, New York|page=193}}</ref>

Onassis remained the subject of considerable press attention,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1989/01/23/jackie-sues-indians-in-marthas-vineyard-over-a-beach/|title=Jackie Sues Indians In Martha's Vineyard Over A Beach|date=January 23, 1989|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|archive-date=December 1, 2024|access-date=September 11, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241201184153/https://www.chicagotribune.com/1989/01/23/jackie-sues-indians-in-marthas-vineyard-over-a-beach/|url-status=live}}</ref> especially from the paparazzi photographer [[Ron Galella]], who followed her around and photographed her as she went about her normal activities; he took candid photos of her without her permission.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/iFlLKoBOT4I Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131109041752/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFlLKoBOT4I&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite magazine|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFlLKoBOT4I |title=1040 Fifth Avenue: Jackie O's Unusual New York City Neighbor |magazine=Vanity Fair |via=YouTube |date=October 16, 2013 |access-date=August 16, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/32885?locale=en |title=Ron Galella |publisher=Museum of Modern Art |access-date=August 16, 2020 |archive-date=May 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518081050/https://www.moma.org/artists/32885?locale=en |url-status=live }}</ref> She ultimately obtained a restraining order against him, and the situation brought attention to the problem of paparazzi photography.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/02/nyregion/02folo.html|work= [[The New York Times]]|title=Ambush Photographer Leaves the Bushes|date=January 2, 2005| author = Fried, Joseph|archivedate=May 29, 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529170116/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/02/nyregion/ambush-photographer-leaves-the-bushes.html}}</ref>{{efn|In the mid-1970s, photos of Onassis sunbathing in the nude had been published without her permission in the pornographic magazines ''[[Playmen]]'', ''[[Screw (magazine)|Screw]]'', and ''[[Hustler (magazine)|Hustler]]''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Jackie Kennedy and the billion dollar nude: 50 years since the first case of 'revenge porn'|first=Martín|last=Bianchi|date=September 11, 2023|work=[[El País]] English|url=https://english.elpais.com/society/2023-09-11/jackie-kennedy-and-the-billion-dollar-nude-50-years-since-the-first-case-of-revenge-porn.html|archive-date=January 27, 2024|access-date=January 28, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240127204601/https://english.elpais.com/society/2023-09-11/jackie-kennedy-and-the-billion-dollar-nude-50-years-since-the-first-case-of-revenge-porn.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Al Goldstein, a Publisher Who Took the Romance Out of Sex, Dies at 77 |first=Andy |last=Newman |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=A1 |date=December 19, 2013 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/nyregion/al-goldstein-pioneering-pornographer-dies-at-77.html |archive-date=March 12, 2017 |access-date=January 28, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312143631/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/nyregion/al-goldstein-pioneering-pornographer-dies-at-77.html |url-status=live }}</ref>}} From 1980 until her death, Onassis maintained a close relationship with [[Maurice Tempelsman]], a Belgian-born industrialist and diamond merchant who was her companion and personal financial adviser.<ref>Schmidt, Susan (August 2, 1997). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/cf080297b.htm "DNC Donor with an Eye on Diamonds."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211102150044/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/cf080297b.htm |date=November 2, 2021 }} ''[[The Washington Post]]''. Retrieved August 7, 2023.</ref>

In 1988, Onassis became a first-time grandmother when her daughter Caroline – married to designer [[Edwin Schlossberg]] – gave birth to daughter [[Rose Schlossberg|Rose]],<ref name="Andersen2">{{cite book |last=Andersen |first=Christopher P. |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781476775562/page/269/mode/2up |title=The Good Son: JFK Jr. and the Mother He Loved |publisher=Gallery Books |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-4767-7556-2 |page=269}}</ref> followed by [[Tatiana Schlossberg|Tatiana Celia]] (b. 1990) and [[Jack Schlossberg|John Bouvier]] (b. 1993).<ref name="Andersen2" /> Caroline would later recall: "I have never seen her so happy as when she's around the kids."<ref name="Andersen2" />

In the early 1990s, Onassis supported [[Bill Clinton]] and contributed money to his presidential campaign.<ref name="LH135">Clinton, pp. 135–138.</ref> Following the election, she met with First Lady [[Hillary Clinton]] and advised her on raising a child in the White House.<ref name="NewYorker10132003">{{cite magazine |last=Kolbert |first=Elizabeth |date=October 13, 2003 |title=The Student: How Hillary Clinton set out to master the Senate |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/10/13/the-student |access-date=November 16, 2015 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |archive-date=November 17, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117034125/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/10/13/the-student |url-status=live }}</ref> In her memoir ''[[Living History (book)|Living History]]'', Clinton wrote that Onassis was "a source of inspiration and advice for me".<ref name="LH135" /> Democratic consultant [[Ann Lewis]] observed that Onassis had reached out to the Clintons "in a way she has not always acted toward leading Democrats in the past".<ref name="SeattleTimes93">{{cite news |last=Lewis |first=Kathy |date=August 25, 1993 |title=Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reaches Out To President Clinton – She Ends Long Political Isolation |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19930825/1717693/jacqueline-kennedy-onassis-reaches-out-to-president-clinton----she-ends-long-political-isolation |work=[[The Seattle Times]] |access-date=February 15, 2015 |archive-date=February 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215231238/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930825&slug=1717693 |url-status=live }}</ref>