Skip to main content Eight years after JFK's assassination, Jackie Kennedy slipped into the White House for one last visit Michael E. Ruane, The Washington Post Feb. 3, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail A 1971 letter from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to first lady Pat Nixon in advance of Jackie's visit to the White House with her children. (Nixon Presidential Library and Museum)Nixon Presidential Library and Museum/Handout WASHINGTON - It had been eight years since Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis left the White House, eight years since black bunting had hung from the East Room windows and her husband's body rested on the same bier that had held Abraham Lincoln's.