The President will meet the party at National Airport, and he and Mrs. Clinton will travel with the family to Arlington, where Mrs. Onassis is to be buried alongside President John F. Kennedy, the spokeswoman said.
Outside Mrs. Onassis's apartment building on Fifth Avenue at East 85th Street, where she died of cancer Thursday night, hundreds of people continued to mill about yesterday, pressed against police barricades, waiting.
Friends and Family Arrive
A few family members and close friends hurried in and out from time to time. Mrs. Onassis's daughter, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, arrived shortly after 11 a.m. with her husband, Edwin, and their three small children.
The actress Darryl Hannah, a frequent companion of John F. Kennedy Jr., left with an unidentified man and was pursued by photographers and cameramen up East 85th Street, back down the street and out onto Park Avenue where they dove into a passing taxi.
Men and, mostly, women stopped by to drop bouquets in the narrow flower bed beside the door. At regular intervals, a doorman emerged to scoop them up whenever they seemed to threaten the landscaping.
The Legend Grows
Mrs. Onassis's legend seemed to be expanding with each passing day.
"Graceful, dignified, courageous, brave, patient, tolerant," said Roland Riso of Staten Island. Carole Breheny, a teacher from Florham Park, N.J., called her simply "my idol."
"I admired that couple not only for their elegance and beauty but for the way they presented themselves to America as the perfect couple," said Louis Rodriguez. And were they in fact perfect? he was asked. "Yes. Absolutely."
At least a few in the crowd were taken aback by the scene -- the cameramen scrambling to photograph the family, and the bystanders, some armed with video cameras, craning for a better view.
"I think the basic deal is we're very curious about them," said Bari Cotton, a nurse from Birmingham, Ala., who was in Manhattan visiting her sister. "We're sad she's dead, but we want to see someone famous."
