European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Aboard presidential plane judge Hughes swears in new president. Cratic presidential nomination in a faction Al Blitzkrieg like Barry Goldwater s gop Victory of eight years before. And like Goldwater Mcgovern was crushed in the election giving Nixon a Triumph com parable to Johnson s in 1964. The water Gate Agnew another Mideast War the ashes had passed to yet another president. It was not just Public men who tasted defeat when Victory seemed at hand. The. Blacks who were to Benefit from the civil rights Bills that passed in the Kennedy memory saw their most articulate Leader murdered too and they burned parts of 100 cities in their rage at the death of mar tin Luther King. But there was no cleansing from those fires. The Kerner re port found the races pulling farther apart and Black militants turned ironically to the separatism that the civil rights move ment was created to combat. And there was More. Youth won some of its demands for a Freer life style and adult treatment in colleges plus the vote and an end to the draft. But no real greening of. America came Forth before the guns at Kent state and Jackson state silenced the youth revolt. Long dormant feminism burst out of its constraints and after 30 years Congress agreed to a constitutional amendment sweeping the books clean of discriminatory Laws but the proposal bogged Down in male ridicule when it went to the state Legislatures. Suburban americans saw the crime and ferment they tried to flee follow them out of the City. Ethnics complained that Blacks were getting the Best of things. Assembly line workers bewailed of sameness of their jobs. Welfare clients clamoured for More Money and less investigation. In a Book called Hopes and fears of the american people pollsters discovered that americans in 1971 believed that their nation was in worse shape than it had been five years before and in 1972 the rating of National Progress was close to ground Zero. Despite All this striving toward free Dom continued and some saw in Ameri cans a new cognition of reality an under standing that while ambition can be unlimited expectations must have Bounds. And perhaps that is what John Kennedy meant when he told the throng in the icy Capitol Plaza on Jan. 20,1961 All this will not be finished in the first one Hundred Days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand Days or in the life of this administration nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let  Pedestal to Jack Ruby gunned Down Lee Harvey Oswald before to cameras Pillory by Frederick m. Winship United press International Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has Learned in the past 10 years one of celebrity s bitterest lessons that it is not a big step from the Pedestal to the Pillory. Writing about the late presi Dent Kennedy after his 1963 assassination the former first lady noted with regret now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a  she is no less a legend and a living one although she would have preferred to remain a woman. By nature a very private per son she always hated As first lady the feeling that she was owned by her Public that they had the right to judge her or her penchant for silk sheets. But Public judgment was in her favor indeed she headed the list of most admired women until 1968. In that year the world s most respected widow the heroine of the new Frontier married an elderly greek shipping tycoon whose reputation in business and other affairs was at Best Flam Boyant at worst tarnished. Her admirers Felt betrayed and the question How could she was headlined in Public print. Incredible As it seems the linage of the figure in Black walk ing bravely behind the Bier of John f. Kennedy has been trans formed in 1973 into a september morn nude pictured in. The italian laymen Magazine and a sensational american weekly news paper. A photographer became a frogman to get the picture of mrs. Onassis As she sunbathe in what she thought was the privacy of Onassis greek Island Villa. Her inaccessibility which Al most rivals Howard Hughes Only provokes such stunts and pushes press speculation to new excesses. Friends say mrs. Onassis has steeled herself against such things and tries to help her Chil Dren Caroline and John do the same. At 44, she does not regard her life As very different than other women of her economic class who gear their schedules to the activities of their husbands and families. Mrs. Onassis has Home based in new York her favorite City for nine years and finds at least a modicum of privacy because of its to hum attitude toward celebrities. Her trips away from the City generally Are dictated by the school vacations of Caroline who will be 16 nov. 27, and John who turns 13 two Days before. Onassis who is in new York off and on about six months of the year is very much the master of his wife s fifth Avenue apart ment when he s around. He does not sleep at a hotel As has been widely reported. European papers also have re ported that the on assists soon will move abroad on a per manent basis. They have no such plans. In fact mrs. Onassis has family at funeral. Just finished redecorating her apartment in collaboration with Interior designer Harrison Cultra. She loves her sojourns on Onassis Island scorpios and the yacht Christina but is less enthusiastic about his Beach House near Athens and a Paris apartment associated with her husband s Maria Callas period. If she is not As close to the Ken Nedy family As she once was she is nevertheless deeply involved in planning the John f. Kennedy Library in Cambridge mass., whose construction is scheduled to begin next year. She wrote recently that the Library cannot replace her slain husband but it can help people who believe it s not too late to seek a newer  report that mrs. Onassis is delighted with her own children s interest in the world about them. Caroline has worked with a film Crew making a documentary on Coal miners in East Tennessee and John has shown a flair for political campaigning among his classmates even though they Are not of voting age. Jacqueline Onassis is As Happy a woman As anyone i know says a Friend whose association goes Back to the White House. She was never a Politi Cal person nor a social person in the sense of capital s society. She is basically Domestic and artistic and her current Way of life allows her to indulge these interests. She can look Back on the tragedy of president Kennedy s death with detachment. This is Good because her children ask Many questions about him and she tries to keep their White House memories Bright. She is Wise enough to know that when one of life s chapters closes an other opens and must be coped with. I think she has coped with More dignity than a lot of people give her credit  thursday november 22, 1973 the stars and stripes Page 13