"In deciding what to do after she moved away from Washington, Mrs. Kennedy had before her only the modern example of Eleanor Roosevelt, who, following her husband’s death, took an active role in the United Nations and continued writing her newspaper column. But Mrs. Roosevelt was in her sixties when her husband died after 12 years in office. In 1964 Jackie Kennedy was just 35, the widow of a first-term president, when she began setting historical precedents of her own."
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Nicolaus Mills in the article "Jackie Kennedy’s Return to Arlington" (29 May 2014).
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (28 July 1929 – 19 May 1994) was the wife of the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and served as First Lady during his presidency from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. She later married to a Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis from 1968 until he died in 1975. In later years, she had a successful career as a book editor.
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