Kennedy Onassis and her children stayed in the White House for two weeks after the assassination. President Lyndon B. Johnson wanted to "do something nice for Jackie", President Johnson wanted to make her Ambassador to France, but she turned the offer down, as well as other offers of ambassadorships to Mexico and the United Kingdom. Johnson renamed the Florida space center the John F. Kennedy Space Center a week after the assassination. Kennedy Onassis later publicly thanked Johnson for his kindness to her.