Most people during the course of their life will know someone who is strong 
  throughout everything and has extreme leadership. For people who don't, it's 
  not often that a group of people like our population, witness such a person 
  as a public figure. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was all that anyone could envy 
  and more. As the wife of the President, John F. Kennedy, she was the third 
  youngest first lady, and one of the few to have an infant child while in 
  residency at the White House. She was a fashion and cultural icon to women 
  everywhere along with having the strength to keep composure after her husband 
  was assassinated at her side. She brought art and music to the White House, 
  and kept the fine arts cultural element running throughout the decade. With 
  all that she endured, and with the example she set for the world, Jacqueline 
  Kennedy Onassis represented the decade of the 1960s with her courage and 
  outgoing spirit that spread to the U.S. populace at the time. 
      
One of Jackie's goals as the first lady was to revamp the White House and 
  restore it to the wonderful place it once was and should be. Her search for 
  authentic pieces of history from the White House in years past, concluded in 
  finds like George Washington's mirror, Dolley Madison's sofa, and other 
  donations of art and antiques from the times. The end result was shown on 
  National Television- the first tour of the White House ever broadcasted to 
  the public with Jackie opening her house and revealing her family to the 
  public; something completely innovative and exclusive to the 1960s. Not only 
  had the 60s brought a new, young president and first lady, whom people 
  followed in the press and on television, but also a new, renovated, White 
  House that the people had never seen. Her changes in White House symbolized 
  the changing country during the decade and her youthful family represented 
  the people of the decade, who were the growing youth from the post WWII baby boom.
 
      It could be said that Jacqueline's previous job as a camera girl for the 
  Washington Times-Herald inspired her interest in fine arts and history, which 
  were two of her main causes during her time as the president's wife. She 
  loved the multiple cultures that America held and she used that to create a 
  cultural center that would eventually become the Kennedy Center for the 
  Performing Arts. She also opened the White House to numerous icons of the 
  arts such as musicians, writers, and artists who quickly began to intermingle 
  with the politicians and regular visitors. This was an area of communication 
  that had never been explored giving another edge to the decade of exploration 
  and change. Jackie also participated in worldwide historical restorations in 
  places like Egyptian temples. Through these two areas, she really opened the 
  American people's mind to the arts, and the history that they learned to 
  appreciate, reflecting the change of spirit in the 1960s.
      
Simple beauty and fashion were possibly Jackie's most recognized 
  attribute to the decade of the 60s. From the minute she stepped into the 
  spotlight as the first lady she charmed world leaders and women everywhere 
  began to embrace her style. Her simplicity was an icon for all women as they 
  began buying pillow-box hats, elegant dresses and skirt suits, and changing 
  their hairstyle to look like her. Jackie-look-alike contests were started as 
  well. Along with the hippies' 'anti fashion' she represented the spirit of 
  fashion in the 60s with her conservative style showing the diverse culture of the decade.  
      
Through all of her leadership, Jacqueline also went through a devastating 
  time, an event that created turbulence all over the country: the 
  assassination of her husband. Keeping herself together amongst tears, cameras 
  followed her everywhere causing a gain in admiration for Jackie all over the 
  country. She showed her strength to the U.S. by raising her children during 
  these hard times of assassinations, war, and grief. The attachment that the 
  Kennedy family seemed to have was so strong before John died and somehow 
  Jackie kept this even without her husband. She showed our country that even 
  during the worst happenings that you have to move on, but still remember 
  those who were less fortunate, which eventually applied greatly to the 
  casualties of the Vietnam War. The spirit shown in her during these times 
  represented the decade in a way that no one had ever seen from a first lady, 
  and her example that she set would help each American citizen at some point 
for personal and or public reasons. 
      
Mostly all people of the states who lived during the time can remember 
  one aspect of Jacqueline Kennedy's courage and lasting impression in the 
  1960s from excellent to dreadful times. Her restorations and introduction of 
  the arts to the country opened up a new way of seeing things and represented 
  the exploration spirit of the 60s. Culturally, she set a high standard for 
  women's fashion and became an icon for all females. Although she showed such 
  poise in the brighter aspects of the decade, she, along with the rest of the 
  country, had to witness the assassination of her husband, John F. Kennedy. As 
  an admired father and husband he was greatly grieved for but Jackie showed 
  her extreme courage and strength even after this event holding her family 
  together. As a first lady, she established many different aspects of life in 
  the White House as well as giving all women a figure to look up to and respect.
She was the lady that everyone wanted to know.